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The worst-case execution-time problem—overview of methods and survey of tools

2008; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 7; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/1347375.1347389

ISSN

1558-3465

Autores

Reinhard Wilhelm, Jakob Engblom, Andreas Ermedahl, Niklas Holsti, Stephan Thesing, David Whalley, Guillem Bernat, Christian Ferdinand, Reinhold Heckmann, Tulika Mitra, Frank Mueller, Isabelle Puaut, Peter Puschner, Jan Staschulat, Per Stenström,

Tópico(s)

Embedded Systems Design Techniques

Resumo

The determination of upper bounds on execution times, commonly called worst-case execution times (WCETs), is a necessary step in the development and validation process for hard real-time systems. This problem is hard if the underlying processor architecture has components, such as caches, pipelines, branch prediction, and other speculative components. This article describes different approaches to this problem and surveys several commercially available tools 1 and research prototypes.

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