TY - GEN
T1 - Light-PREM
T2 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, RTCSA 2014
AU - Mancuso, Renato
AU - Dudko, Roman
AU - Caccamo, Marco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/25
Y1 - 2014/9/25
N2 - As real-time embedded systems become more complex, there is the need to build them using high performance commercial off-The-shelf (COTS) components. However, tasks can exhibit hard to predict worst case execution times (WCET) when executing on commodity hardware, due to contention among shared physical resources. Past work has introduced the PRedictable Execution Model (PREM) [1] to solve this issue, but unfortunately, the time required to manually refactor existing code according to this model is too high. Light-PREM proposes a novel technique that automates the refactoring process needed to convert legacy software applications to PREM-compliant code. The advantage of Light-PREM is twofold. On one side, it makes the adoption of PREM more attractive from an industrial point of view, because it significantly reduces the amount of work that is needed to generate PREM-compliant code. On the other hand, the proposed methodology is general enough to be used with any embedded software design. Experimental results show that Light-PREM significantly improves the predictability of real-time applications without requiring software engineers to gain a deep understanding about software memory usage.
AB - As real-time embedded systems become more complex, there is the need to build them using high performance commercial off-The-shelf (COTS) components. However, tasks can exhibit hard to predict worst case execution times (WCET) when executing on commodity hardware, due to contention among shared physical resources. Past work has introduced the PRedictable Execution Model (PREM) [1] to solve this issue, but unfortunately, the time required to manually refactor existing code according to this model is too high. Light-PREM proposes a novel technique that automates the refactoring process needed to convert legacy software applications to PREM-compliant code. The advantage of Light-PREM is twofold. On one side, it makes the adoption of PREM more attractive from an industrial point of view, because it significantly reduces the amount of work that is needed to generate PREM-compliant code. On the other hand, the proposed methodology is general enough to be used with any embedded software design. Experimental results show that Light-PREM significantly improves the predictability of real-time applications without requiring software engineers to gain a deep understanding about software memory usage.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84908608912
U2 - 10.1109/RTCSA.2014.6910515
DO - 10.1109/RTCSA.2014.6910515
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84908608912
T3 - RTCSA 2014 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
BT - RTCSA 2014 - 20th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 August 2014 through 22 August 2014
ER -