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Authors: | Alena Simalatsar, Yusi Ramadian, Kai Lampka, Simon Perathoner, Roberto Passerone, Lothar Thiele |
Group: | Computer Engineering |
Type: | Inproceedings |
Title: | Enabling Parametric Feasibility Analysis in Real-time Calculus Driven Performance Evaluation |
Year: | 2011 |
Month: | October |
Pub-Key: | SRPLPT11 |
Book Titel: | Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems, CASES 2011 |
Pages: | 155-164 |
Keywords: | Tool integration, System-level Design, Feasibility areas, Worst-case Analysis |
Publisher: | ACM |
Abstract: | This paper advocates a rigorously formal and compositional style for obtaining key performance and/or interface metrics of systems with real-time constraints. We propose a hierarchical approach that couples the independent and different by nature frameworks of Modular Performance Analysis with Real-time Calculus (MPA-RTC) and Parametric Feasibility Analysis (PFA). Recent work on Real-time Calculus (RTC) has established an embedding of state-based component models into RTC-driven performance analysis for dealing with more expressive component models. However, with the obtained analysis infrastructure it is possible to analyze components only for a fixed set of parameters, e.g. fixed CPU speeds, fixed buffer sizes etc., so that a big space of parameters remains unstudied. In this paper, we overcome this limitation by integrating the method of parametric feasibility analysis in an RTC-based modeling environment. Using the PFA tool-flow, we are able to find regions for component parameters that maintain feasibility and worst-case properties. As a result, the proposed analysis infrastructure produces a broader range of valid design candidates, and allows the designer to reason about the system robustness. |
Remarks: | Part of ESWeek 2011 Seventh Embedded Systems Week |
Location: | Taipei, Taiwan |
Resources: | [BibTeX] [Paper as PDF] |