Path clustering in software timing analysis

  • Authors:
  • Fabian Wolf;Rolf Ernst;Wei Ye

  • Affiliations:
  • Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany;Technische Univ. Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems - System Level Design
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Verification of program running time is essential in system design with real-time constraints. Simulation with incomplete test patterns or simple instruction counting are not appropriate for complex architectures. Software running times of embedded systems are process state and input data dependent. Formal analysis of such dependencies leads to software running time intervals rather than single values. These intervals depend on program properties, execution paths. and states of processes, as well as on the target architecture. An approach to analysis of process behavior using running time intervals is presented. It improves our previoius work by exploiting program segments with single paths and by taking the execution context into account. The example of an asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) cell handler demonstrates significant improvements in analysis precision. Experimental results show the superiority of the presented approach over well-established approaches.