Integrated analysis of communicating tasks in MPSoCs

  • Authors:
  • Simon Schliecker;Matthias Ivers;Rolf Ernst

  • Affiliations:
  • Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany;Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany;Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

  • Venue:
  • CODES+ISSS '06 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Predicting timing behavior is key to efficient embedded real-time system design and verification. Especially memory accesses and co-processor calls over shared communication networks, basic operations of every embedded application pose a challenge for precise system analysis. Current approaches to determine end-to-end latencies in parallel heterogeneous architectures either focus on system level and allow only limited task models, or focus on activities inside a component, abstracting system level influences by overestimations.In this paper, we identify feedbacks of the system behavior that directly or indirectly impact local execution. To tackle these complex interactions we present a novel technique to integrate an extended component level scheduling analysis with refined system level approaches. Bringing the different levels of abstraction together allows the analysis of a new class of interacting applications and architectures - which could not be addressed on a single level alone.On the component level, we investigate two scheduling behaviors more closely, namely stalling during external requests, and allowing context-switches to other tasks that are ready. For both, we present a precise response time analysis. Finally, we compare the scheduling techniques with respect to real-time requirements.