Guan N. Techniques for Building Timing-Predictable Embedded Systems

New York: Springer, 2016. - 235p.Introduces promising techniques for dealing with challenges associated with deploying real-time systems on multicore platforms;
Provides a complete picture of building timing-predictable computer systems, at the program level, component level and system level;
Leverages different levels of abstraction to deal with the complexity of the analysis
This book describes state-of-the-art techniques for designing real-time computer systems. The author shows how to estimate precisely the effect of cache architecture on the execution time of a program, how to dispatch workload on multicore processors to optimize resources, while meeting deadline constraints, and how to use closed-form mathematical approaches to characterize highly variable workloads and their interaction in a networked environment. Readers will learn how to deal with unpredictable timing behaviors of computer systems on different levels of system granularity and abstraction.