Building timing predictable embedded systems

ZZ Building Timing Predictable Embedded Systems

A large class of embedded systems is distinguished from general purpose computing systems by the need to satisfy strict requirements on timing, often under constraints on available resources. Predictable system design is concerned with the challenge of building systems for which timing requirements can be guaranteed a priori. Perhaps paradoxically, this problem has become more difficult by the ...

New Techniques for Building Timing-Predictable Embedded Systems

Guan, N. 2013. New Techniques for Building Timing-Predictable Embedded Systems. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Science and Technology 1094. 45 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-8797-3. Embedded systems are becoming ubiquitous in our daily life. Due to close interaction with physical world, embedded systems are typically su...

Predictable Automatic Memory Management for Embedded Systems

The power of dynamic memory management can be used to produce more flexible control applications without compromising the robustness of the applications. It is demonstrated how automatic memory management, or garbage collection (GC), can be used in a system that has to comply with hard real-time demands while still preserving the predictability of the system. A suitable garbage collection algor...

Building Embedded Linux Systems

Energy Efficient and Predictable Design of Real-Time Embedded Systems

This thesis addresses several issues related to the design and optimization of embedded systems. In particular, in the context of time-constrained embedded systems, the thesis investigates two problems: the minimization of the energy consumption and the implementation of predictable applications on multiprocessor system-on-chip platforms. Power consumption is one of the most limiting factors in...