Chapter 7. Real-Time Framework Implementation
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
— Donald E. Knuth
In this chapter I describe the implementation of a lightweight real-time framework called QF. As shown in Figure 7.1, QF is the central component of the QP event-driven platform, which also includes the QEP hierarchical event processor (described in Part I of this book) as well as the preemptive run-to-completion (RTC) kernel (QK) and the software tracing instrumentation (QS).
Figure 7.1. QP Components (in gray) and their relationship to the target hardware, ...
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