RTSA

Real-Time System Specification Workshop

The Real-Time System Specification Workshop provides a unified real-time system and software design discipline that utilizes the behavioral (state), information flow (data and control flow), and information (data model) views of the development process. These views are incorporated into the only system analysis and design method that deals with the requirements formulation, allocation of requirements to architectural entities (subsystems and/or objects), decomposition of requirements to hardware, software, and manual operations, and software design.

The primary workshop objectives are to provide:

	Proven techniques for attacking the problems of complexity and management in the development of large real-time systems with significant software components
	Training in the effective real-time system/software analysis and design techniques through the use of practical case studies
	A unified approach for the use of both object-oriented and functional analysis and design methods
	An integrated proven method that encompasses the life cycle activities from Concept Formulation through Software Program Specification

The detailed program for this workshop is described in the following schedule. The workshop is normally divided into two sessions with a 1 to 4 week separation.

Workshop Schedule

Day	Subject Matter
1	Real-time system definitions System process models Information flow techniques
2	System control models and state machines
3	System definition case study
4	Requirements model enhancement Case study requirements model enhancement
5	System architecture model Case study architecture development System modeling review and summary
6	System modeling review Case Study 2 requirements and architecture development Hardware/software enhanced requirements Hardware/software architecture allocation
7	Software architecture development Software partitioning Case Study 2 software architecture development
8	Real-time structure charts Information hiding Case Study 2 software architecture development (cont.)
9	Object oriented architectures Case Study 1 software architecture development
10	Case Study 1 software architecture development (con.) System development review and summary