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If your real-time software development team still struggles with:

Accurately dimensioning the system architecture at proposal time

Obtaining all required timing information during analysis

Difficulties responding to pointed questions about design margins during reviews

Last minute re-implementation in assembler because of performance problems

Fighting priority inversion  on the eve of a fee milestone

Then, you need RMA!

What's an RMA?

A scientific and quite simple way to analyse, predict, and improve the performance of real-time systems has been developped at CMU, SEI and elsewhere. This set of techniques, called “Rate Monotonic Analysis” is described in details in “A Practitioner’s Hanbook for Real-Time Analysis” by Klein et al (Kluwer). However, to start effectively using the book requires a more gentle  introduction. 

This is why the instructor wrote a book with an SEI colleague and selected the IEEE to publish it. The book demonstrates the use of the techniques on real world problems. The book “Meeting deadlines in hard realtime systems: The RMA approach” and its CD-ROM with support software is offered as part of the class to each attendee.

Who should attend?

This one day course is designed to introduce managers to the impact of RMA on the software development process and practitioners to the immediate use of the basic techniques. By the end of the course, practitioners will have acquired the knowledge needed to use a basic RMA process and to tackle the “Handbook”. The course covers:

RMA for managers (1 hr). Cost, benefit, Impact on the process.

Basic techniques (Theorem 1&2). Exercises.

Accounting for overhead (Benchmark). Exercise.

Dealing with blocking. Exercise.

Introduction to aperiodic activities.

Applying the techniques to a real problem (RMA process for a case study)

Using the handbook

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