Efficient compilation of process-based concurrent programs without run-time scheduling

  • Authors:
  • B. Lin

  • Affiliations:
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the conference on Design, automation and test in Europe
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Currently, run-time operating systems are widely used to implement concurrent embedded applications. This run-time approach to multi-tasking and inter-process communication can introduce significant overhead to execution times and memory requirements -- prohibitive in many cases for embedded applications where processor and memory resources are scarce. In this paper, we present a static compilation approach that generates ordinary C programs at compile-time that can be readily retargeted to different processors, without including or generating a run-time scheduler. Our method is based on a novel Petri net theoretic approach.