System Software

This text is an introduction to the design and implementation of various types of system software. A central theme of the book is the relationship between machine architecture and system software.

Systems Software: Essential Concepts provides students with an accessible introduction to the knowledge and fundamentals that are necessary to understand software and hardware. The text also reviews implementation techniques to familiarize students with more complex software, such as operating systems and compilers, and prepare them to take more advance courses within the discipline. The book is divided into two key topical areas: compiler fundamentals and the basic mechanisms and data structures required to support operating systems. In the compiler section, students learn about the runtime environment, how to implement a scanner and a symbol table, and how to implement parsing and code generation for a virtual machine. To emphasize practical application, students are challenged to implement a small compiler. In the operating system domain, students gain an understanding of the interrupt mechanism, process and thread implementation, and process synchronization. Featuring a modern and practical approach, Systems Software is an ideal resource for courses in system programming, systems software, software development, and assembly language. It can also serve as a supplementary material for introductory operating system and compiler courses.

Computer software reliability has never been so important. Computers are used in areas as diverse as air traffic control, nuclear reactors, real-time military, industrial process control, security system control, biometric scan-systems, automotive, mechanical and safety control, and hospital patient monitoring systems. Many of these applications require critical functionality as software applications increase in size and complexity. This book is an introduction to software reliability engineering and a survey of the state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies and tools used to assess the reliability of software and combined software-hardware systems. Current research results are reported and future directions are signposted. This text will interest: graduate students as a course textbook introducing reliability engineering software; reliability engineers as a broad, up-to-date survey of the field; and researchers and lecturers in universities and research institutions as a one-volume reference.

The Software System Design and Modeling enables us to view software in terms of a system. When designing a system, we start with the system requirement and then translate the system requirement to a real product. By using the concept presented in this book, we can design and model a system from the system requirement and then produce the UML model of the system before starting coding. Some key topics discussed in this book include multiple views of a system, requirement interpretation, requirement application, requirement duplication, system function and problem solved by system, agile and scrum methodology, fixed system requirement and non-fixed requirement, incremental software development process, and more. Using the tools from the book, you can develop a system with a full lifecycle. As time goes on, the tools from the book make it possible to update parts of the system that need to be updated without any frustration rather than reinventing the wheel.

For more and more systems, software has moved from a peripheral to a central role, replacing mechanical parts and hardware and giving the product a competitive edge. Consequences of this trend are an increase in: the size of software systems, the variability in software artifacts, and the importance of software in achieving the system-level properties. Software architecture provides the necessary abstractions for managing the resulting complexity. We here introduce the Third Working IEEFlIFIP Conference on Software Architecture, WICSA3. That it is already the third such conference is in itself a clear indication that software architecture continues to be an important topic in industrial software development and in software engineering research. However, becoming an established field does not mean that software architecture provides less opportunity for innovation and new directions. On the contrary, one can identify a number of interesting trends within software architecture research. The first trend is that the role of the software architecture in all phases of software development is more explicitly recognized. Whereas initially software architecture was primarily associated with the architecture design phase, we now see that the software architecture is treated explicitly during development, product derivation in software product lines, at run-time, and during system evolution. Software architecture as an artifact has been decoupled from a particular lifecycle phase.

Intended as a text for the undergraduate students of Computer Science and Master of Computer Applications (MCA), this comprehensive yet concise book introduces the reader to the recent Intel 32-bit architecture, its programming and associated system programs. The text begins by giving an overview of major system software and proceeds to discuss the assembly language programming with a number of examples. Topics such as assemblers, linkers and microprocessor are dealt with using Netwide Assembler (NASM)—the free platform independent assembler to generate object code. All the stages of a compiler design, its important methodologies, and the recent design techniques of text editor along with the advance data structures used for this purpose are also covered in sufficient detail. Finally, the essential features of debuggers, their design techniques and, most importantly, the hardware and software support for designing a good debugger are described. KEY FEATURES : • Gives a fairly large number of examples and problems to help students in understanding the concepts better. • The text easily correlates theory with practice. • Provides exhaustive discussion on Netwide Assembler (NASM).

To make communication and computation secure against catastrophic failure and malicious interference, it is essential to build secure software systems and methods for their development. This book describes the ideas on how to meet these challenges in software engineering.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed postproceedings of the First International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2004, held in Hangzhou, China in December 2004. The 80 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 4 keynote speeches and 4 invited talks were thoroughly reviewed and selected from almost 400 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on distributed embedded computing, embedded systems, embedded hardware and architecture, middleware for embedded computing, mobile systems, transducer network, embedded operating system, power-aware computing, real-time system, embedded system verification and testing, and software tools for embedded systems.