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SAMOS
2015
Springer
8 years 8 days ago
ESL power estimation using virtual platforms with black box processor models
—Processor models for electronic system level (ESL) simulations are usually provided by their vendors as binary object code. Those binaries appear as black boxes, which do not al...
Stefan Schürmans, Gereon Onnebrink, Rainer Le...
SAMOS
2015
Springer
8 years 8 days ago
Multi-Domain Virtual Prototyping in a SystemC SIL framework: A heating system case study
Abstract—This paper presents a proof-of-concept for a modular SystemC SIL (Software-in-the-Loop) simulation environment, using a blackboard-like architecture. The proposed SIL fr...
Nikolaos Ilieskou, Marijn Blom, Lou J. Somers, Mic...
SAMOS
2015
Springer
8 years 8 days ago
Power optimizations for transport triggered SIMD processors
—Power consumption in modern processor design is a key aspect. Optimizing the processor for power leads to direct savings in battery energy consumption in case of mobile devices....
Joonas Multanen, Timo Viitanen, Henry Linjamaki, H...
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
Top-down and bottom-up multi-level cache analysis for WCET estimation
—In many multi-core architectures, inclusive shared caches are used to reduce cache coherence complexity. However, the enforcement of the inclusion property can cause invalidatio...
Zhenkai Zhang, Xenofon D. Koutsoukos
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
Ultrasonic time synchronization and ranging on smartphones
—In this paper, we present the design and evaluation of a platform that can be used for time synchronization and indoor positioning of mobile devices. The platform uses the Time-...
Patrick Lazik, Niranjini Rajagopal, Bruno Sinopoli...
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
Multicore scheduling of parallel real-time tasks with multiple parallelization options
—Past researches on multicore scheduling assume that a computational unit has already been parallelized into a prefixed number of threads. However, with recent technologies such...
Jihye Kwon, Kang-Wook Kim, Sangyoun Paik, Jihwa Le...
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
Budgeted generalized rate monotonic analysis for the partitioned, yet globally scheduled uniprocessor model
—This paper solves the challenge of offline response time analysis of independent periodic tasks with constrained deadlines early in the software development cycle, under genera...
Jung-Eun Kim, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Lui Sha
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
Mixed-criticality runtime mechanisms and evaluation on multicores
—Multicore systems are being increasingly used for embedded system deployments, even in safety-critical domains. Co-hosting applications of different criticality levels in the sa...
Lukas Sigrist, Georgia Giannopoulou, Pengcheng Hua...
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
dOSEK: the design and implementation of a dependability-oriented static embedded kernel
—Because of shrinking structure sizes and operating voltages, computing hardware exhibits an increasing susceptibility against transient hardware faults: Issues previously only k...
Martin Hoffmann, Florian Lukas, Christian Dietrich...
RTAS
2015
IEEE
8 years 8 days ago
A predictable and command-level priority-based DRAM controller for mixed-criticality systems
—Mixed-criticality systems have tasks with different criticality levels running on the same hardware platform. Today’s DRAM controllers cannot adequately satisfy the often con...
Hokeun Kim, David Broman, Edward A. Lee, Michael Z...