Real-Time Design Patterns

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Real-Time Design Patterns

Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D.

i-Logix

Real-Time Design Patterns
Bruce Powel Douglass, Ph.D. Chief Evangelist I-Logix, Inc. www.ilogix.com
Parts of this paper have been adapted from the author’s book Real-Time UML: Developing Efficient Objects for Embedded Systems (Addison-Wesley, 1998) and Doing Hard Time: Developing Real-Time Systems with UML, Objects, Frameworks, and Patterns (Addison-Wesley, 1999).

Introduction
Many of us have had the experience of working with a truly great software designer. They have the ability to look at a really hard problem and seemingly with no effort construct an elegant and practical solution. Afterward, we all slap our foreheads and say “Of course! It’s so obvious!1” How do those Great Designers actually come up with these gr