<p>"This book is a comprehensive text for the design of safety critical, hard real-time embedded systems. It offers a splendid example for the balanced, integrated treatment of systems and software engineering, helping readers tackle the hardest problems of advanced real-time system design, such as determinism, compositionality, timing and fault management. This book is an essential reading for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in a wide range of disciplines impacted by embedded computing and software. Its conceptual clarity, the style of explanations and the examples make the abstract concepts accessible for a wide audience."<br>Janos Sztipanovits, Director<br>E. Bronson Ingram Distinguished Professor of Engineering<br>Institute for Software Integrated Systems<br>Vanderbilt University</p><p><i>Real-Time Systems</i> focuses on hard real-time systems, which are computing systems that must meet their temporal specification in all anticipated load and fault scenario