Title
Message Passing on a Time-predictable Multicore Processor
Abstract
Real-time systems need time-predictable computing platforms. For a multicore processor to be time-predictable, communication between processor cores needs to be time-predictable as well. This paper presents a time-predictable message-passing library for such a platform. We show how to build up abstraction layers from a simple, time-division multiplexed hardware push channel. We develop these time-predictable abstractions and implement them in software. To prove the time-predictability of these functions we analyze their worst-case execution time (WCET) with the aiT WCET analysis tool. We combine these WCET numbers with the calculation of the network latency of a message and then provide a statically computed end-to-end latency for this core-to-core message.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISORC.2015.15
2015 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing
Keywords
Field
DocType
time-predictable multicore processor,real-time systems,time-predictable computing platforms,multicore processor,time-predictable communication,processor cores,time-predictable cores,time-predictable message-passing library,abstraction layers,time-division multiplexed hardware push channel,time-predictable abstractions,worst-case execution time,aiT WCET analysis tool,WCET numbers,network latency,end-to-end latency,core-to-core message
Abstraction,Latency (engineering),Computer science,Real-time computing,Software,Time-division multiplexing,Multi-core processor,Message passing,Distributed computing,Parallel computing,Communication channel,Multiplexing,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1555-0885
7
0.49
References 
Authors
18
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rasmus Bo Sørensen1595.51
Wolfgang Puffitsch227318.56
Martin Schoeberl3120086.32
Sparso, J.4133104.88