This practical new book provides much-needed, practical, hands-on experience capturing analysis and design in UML. It holds the hands of engineers making the difficult leap from developing in C to the higher-level and more robust Unified Modeling Language, thereby supporting professional development for engineers looking to broaden their skill-sets in order to become more saleable in the job market. It provides a laboratory environment through a series of progressively more complex exercises that act as building blocks, illustrating the various aspects of UML and its application to real-time and embedded systems. With its focus on gaining proficiency, it goes a significant step beyond basic UML overviews, providing both comprehensive methodology and the best level of supporting exercises available on the market. Each exercise has a matching solution which is thoroughly explained step-by-step in the back of the book. The techniques used to solve these problems come from the author's decades of experience designing and constructing real-time systems.After the exercises have been successfully completed, the book will act as a desk reference for engineers, reminding them of how many of the problems they face in their designs can be solved. *Tutorial style text with keen focus on in-depth presentation and solution of real-world example problems *Highly popular, respected and experienced author *CD includes test version of the popular Rhapsody tool, allowing engineers to capture and work out the exercises in the book

Table of Contents

Part I: Basics and Preliminaries; Ch1: Basic UML Introduction: Use Cases and Requirements; Ch 2: The ROPES Process: Project Lifecycles; Part II: Exercises; Ch 3: Specifying the Requirements: Grouping Requirements; Ch 4: Systems Architecture: Performing Tradeoff Analysis for Different Architectures; Ch 5 Object Analysis: Applying Object Identification Strategies; Ch 6: Concurrency Architecture: Identifying Tasks; Ch 7: Distribution Architecture: Asymmetric and Symmetric Distribution; Ch 8: Safety and Reliability Architecture: Identifying Channels; Ch 9: Optimizing Collaborations: Reusability, Data Access, Complexity; Ch 10: Detailed Design: Managing Visibility and Access; Part III: Answers; Appendix A: Notational Summary; Appendix B: Short Rhapsody Tutorial.

Reviews

"As you might expect, there are plenty of UML diagrams. Real-time UML specifications are used throughout, consistent with the purpose of the book. Designers with UML expertise who want to understand how to address real-time applications will find this book useful, as will those in the real-time world who need to understand how to bring UML to bear on the design problem." - William Wong, Electronic Design