gRMA v0.01a
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a graphical tool for rate monotonic analysis
of real time systems
DESCRIPTION
This program provides a graphical environment for experimentation with rate monotonic analysis. You are provided with tools for describing a real time system. You can then view the results of performing rate monotonic analysis of this system. For details on the theory please see the documentation in the 'doc/' directory. For details on the operation of the program, please refer to the online help system accessible from the 'Help' menu on the main screen.
This module is licensed under the GPL - no warranty of any kind is provided. See the LICENSE section below for more details.
*** THIS IS AN ALPHA RELEASE ***
WARNING: This is an alpha release! It is not a complete software product. Please report any and all bugs you find in it to me at sam@tregar.com. Please consider contributing solutions to bugs and shortcomings - any and all help will be appreciated and credited.
This program is in a highly incomplete form. In particular, it is possible to specify systems that the analysis engine cannot produce results for. This was done to provide a working base for future development. If someone wants to add, for example, the ability to handle "bursty" aperiodic tasks to the analysis engine, all that is necessary is to modify the engine itself. If I had not included the "Bursty" option in the Task Editor, it would require a difficult change to the GUI code to support that analysis. Of course, some changes will require GUI changes, but the hope is that these will be kept to a minimum.
CONTACT
Sam Tregar (sam@tregar.com)
INSTALLATION
Please refer to the file named INSTALL in the same directory as this file.
DOCUMENTATION
You'll find the documentation in the doc/ directory. In the pod/ directory is documentation in the Perldoc POD format - to read it type "perldoc file.pod." In the html/ directory you'll find the POD files translated into html. This is the same documentation that is available from the Help menu in the program.
You might also be interested in the little paper I wrote about RMA, which you can find in the doc/ directory. The name of the file is RMA_History.
LICENSE
gRMA : a graphical tool for rate monotonic analysis of real time systems Copyright (C) 1999 Sam Tregar (sam@tregar.com)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA