Rasmus Bo Sørensen: Time-predictable multicore platforms are a class of computers targeting hard real-time applications, such as avionic, automotive or railway control systems. These real-time applications all have strict timing requirements that ensure correct behavior in all modes of operations. A hard real-time application is characterized by the fact that faulty behavior may lead to catastrophic consequences.
A number of multicore platforms already target the real-time application domain, but without providing time-predictable external memory access.
In this project, we investigate the hardware/software interface of the on-chip communication interconnect of multicore platforms targeting hard real-time systems. Our aim is to reduce hardware consumption while providing time-predictable communication primitives for core-to-core communication and enabling easy calculation of the worst-case execution times.
This PhD project is part of the RTEMP project funded by the Danish Council for Independent Research | Technology and Production Sciences, contract no. 12-127600
Effective start/end date 01/04/2013 → 26/10/2016
Published as PhD report: Time-Predictable Communication on a Time-Division Multiplexing Network-on-Chip Multicore
Supervisors: Jens Sparsø, Martin Schoeberl
Embedded Systems Engineering Section