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AssigneeSimmonds Precision Products, Inc.
InventorsThomas Edward Rhoads, II, Keith Patrick Darwin, Mark Robert Chaffee, Harold Frederick Clark, Jr.
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A computer software architecture for an embedded computer system. The architecture includes a hierarchy of software object classes. One classification includes a common information blackboard object. Data is written to the blackboard object by processes in a protected manner, and is otherwise globally readable by all processes. A run-time executive is provided to schedule and coordinate processes. Processes register with the run-time executive at start-up. One process can know the existence and generation of data by another process. The architecture is layered in increasing levels of system abstraction. In one embodiment, the embedded system is an airborne fuel gauging subsystem.
A method of controlling an execution of a plurality of processes within a software architecture comprising a hierarchical multiplicity of layers of software objects, said execution of processes being controllable within each layer and among the multiplicity of layers, each process of the plurality including a scheduling request and performable tasks, said method comprising the steps of:
A Run-time executive interfaceable with a hierarchical multiplicity of layers of software objects for controlling an execution of a plurality of processes within each layer and among the multiplicity of layers, each process of the plurality including a scheduling request and performable tasks, said run-time executive comprising:
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