Guide for the use of the Ada Ravenscar Profile in high integrity systems

Abstract

There is increasing recognition that the software components of critical real-time applications must be provably predictable. This is particularly so for a hard real-time system, in which the failure of a component of the system to meet its timing deadline can result in an unacceptable failure of the whole system. The choice of a suitable design and development method, in conjunction with supporting tools that enable the real-time performance of a system to be analysed and simulated, can lead to a high level of confidence that the final system meets its real-time constraints.