Title
The ACROSS MPSoC -- A New Generation of Multi-core Processors Designed for Safety-Critical Embedded Systems
Abstract
The European ARTEMIS ACROSS project aims to overcome the limitations of existing Multi-Processor System-on-a-Chip (MPSoC) architectures with respect to safety-critical applications. MPSoCs have a tremendous potential in the domain of embedded systems considering their enormous computational capacity and energy efficiency. However, the currently existing MPSoC architectures have significant limitations with respect to safety-critical applications. These limitations include difficulties in the certification process due to the high complexity of MPSoCs, the lacking temporal determinism and problems related to error propagation between subsystems. These limitations become even more severe, when subsystems of different criticality levels have to be integrated on the same computational platform. Examples of such mixed-criticality integration are found in the avionics and automotive industry with their desire to integrate safety-critical, mission critical and non-critical subsystems on the same platform in order to minimize size, weight, power and cost. The main objective of ACROSS is to develop a new generation of multicore processors designed specially for safety-critical embedded systems; the ACROSS MPSoC. In this paper we will show how the ACROSS MPSoC overcomes the limitations of existing MPSoC architectures in order to make the multi-core technology available to the safety-critical domain.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.micpro.2013.08.002
Microprocessors & Microsystems
Keywords
DocType
Volume
mixed-criticality integration,certification process,non-critical subsystems,new generation,fpga technology,safety-critical domain,across architecture,multi-processor system-on-a-chip,across mpsoc,european artemis across project,enormous computational capacity,computational platform,mpsoc architecture,multi-core processor,safety-critical embedded system,embedded system,multicore,temporal isolation
Conference
37
Issue
ISSN
ISBN
8
0141-9331
978-1-4673-2498-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
23
1.26
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Christian El Salloum112511.24
Martin Elshuber2252.30
Oliver Höftberger3333.56
Haris Isakovic4263.04
Armin Wasicek5605.44