Timing Analysis on Code-Level (TACLe)

Fact Sheet

AcronymTACLe
NameTiming Analysis on Code-Level
Homepagewww.tacle.eu
Role of TUHHAction Vice Chair, member of Working Groups 1, 2 and 4
Start Date07/11/2012
End Date06/11/2016
Funds DonorCOST Office Brussels

Summary

TACLe is a four years lasting COST Action funded by the COST Office in Brussels.

Many embedded systems are safety-critical real-time systems that must process data within given deadlines. To validate real-time properties, timing analyses of program code are mandatory. Research on techniques for timing analysis of software touches many areas within computer science, e.g., computer architecture, compiler construction and formal verification.

This COST Action aims to cross-link the leading European researchers in these areas and thus to strengthen Europe's leading position in the field of timing analysis. TACLe's research activities include timing models for multicore systems, support of timing analysis by software development tools, early-stage timing analysis right in the beginning of the software development cycle, and the consideration of resources other than time like, e.g., energy dissipation.

TACLe Publications of the Embedded Systems Design Group

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Title: Schedulability-Aware SPM Allocation for Preemptive Hard Real-Time Systems with Arbitrary Activation Patterns. <em>In Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE)</em>
Written by: Arno Luppold and Heiko Falk
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Series: 201703-date-luppold.pdf
Address: Lausanne / Switzerland
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ISBN: 10.23919/DATE.2017.7927149
how published: 17-90 LuFa17a DATE
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Note: aluppold, hfalk, ESD, emp2, tacle, WCC

Abstract: In hard real-time multi-tasking systems each task has to meet its deadline under any circumstances. If one or several tasks violate their timing constraints, compiler optimizations can be used to optimize the Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) of each task with a focus on the system's schedulability. Existing approaches are limited to single-tasking or strictly periodic multi-tasking systems. We propose a compiler optimization to perform a schedulability-aware static instruction Scratchpad Allocation for arbitrary activation patterns and deadlines. The approach is based on Integer-Linear Programming and is evaluated for the Infineon TriCore TC1796 microcontroller.