Performance Analysis of a RTOS by Emulation of an Embedded System

  • Authors:
  • Karlheinz Weiss;Thorsten Steckstor;Wolfgang Rosenstiel

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • RSP '99 Proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The paper analyzes the performance of two different real-time operating systems. Therefore, we used a real benchmark embedded system design with fast external reaction times of about 220 microseconds. We show that for such fast reactive systems, the software overhead of a real-time operating system becomes a limiting factor. We analyze the influence of novel microcontroller features, e.g. different on-chip caches, which tend to accelerate execution, but make it less predictable. These investigations have been conducted using our own emulation environment called SPYDER-CORE-P1.