====== Suggested Readings ======

  * Hermann Kopetz,  “Real-Time Systems: Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications,” Springer-Verlag: New York, 2nd ed. 2011. 
  * Jane W.S. Liu, “Real-Time Systems,” Prentice-Hall, 2000.
  * C.M. Krishna, and Kang G. Shin, “Real-Time Systems,” McGraw-Hill, 1997.
  * Alan C. Shaw, “Real-Time Systems and Software,” John Wiley & Sons, 2000.
  * Hermann Kopetz, “Real-Time Systems – Design Principles for Distributed Embedded Applications” Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
  * G.F. Franklin, J.D. Powell, M. Workman, “Digital Control of Dynamic Systems,” 3rd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 1998.
  * F. Vahid, T. Givargis, “Embedded System Design,” John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002.
  * Jean J. Labrosse, “MicroC/OS-II – The Real-Time Kernel,” Second Edition, CMPBooks, 2002.
  * David E. Simon, “An Embedded Software Primer,” Addison-Wesley, 1999.
  * Mark Klein et al., “A Practitioner's Handbook for Real-Time Analysis: Guide to Rate Monotonic Analysis for Real-Time Systems," Springer-Verlag, 2012