Evaluating the Perceived Overhead Imposed by Object-Oriented Programming in a Real-time Embedded System

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dc.contributor.authorBhakthavatsalam, Sumithraen
dc.contributor.committeechairEdwards, Stephen H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberArthur, James D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBoroyevich, Dushanen
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:38:09Zen
dc.date.adate2003-06-16en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:38:09Zen
dc.date.issued2003-05-16en
dc.date.rdate2003-06-16en
dc.date.sdate2003-05-22en
dc.description.abstractThis thesis presents the design and evaluation of an object-oriented (OO) operating system kernel for real-time embedded systems based on dataflow architecture. Dataflow is a software architecture that is well suited to applications that involve signal flows and value transformations. Typically, these systems comprise numerous processes with heavy inter-process communications. The dataflow style has been adopted for the control software for PEBB (Power Electronic Building Block) systems by the Center for Power Electronic Systems (CPES), Virginia Tech., which is involved in a research effort to modularize and standardize power electronic components. The goal of our research is to design and implement an efficient object-oriented kernel for the PEBB system and compare its performance vis-à-vis that of a non-OO kernel. It presents strategies for efficient OO design and a discussion of how OO performance issues can be ameliorated. We conclude the thesis with an evaluation of the advantages gained by using the OO paradigm both from the standpoint of the classically cited advantages of OO programming and other crucial aspects.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-05222003-162844en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05222003-162844/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/33107en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartthesis.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectKernelen
dc.subjectReal-timeen
dc.subjectEmbeddeden
dc.subjectOperating Systemen
dc.subjectObject-Orienteden
dc.titleEvaluating the Perceived Overhead Imposed by Object-Oriented Programming in a Real-time Embedded Systemen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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