Automatic generation and targeting of application-specific operating systems and embedded systems software

Author

Gauthier, Lovic ; Yoo, Sungjoo ; Jerraya, Ahmed Amine

Author_Institution

Techniques of Informatics & Microelectron. for Comput. Archit. Lab., System-Level Synthesis Group, Grenoble, France

Volume

20

Issue

11

fYear

2001

fDate

11/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1293

Lastpage

1301

Abstract

Software (SW) parts become crucial in embedded systems. Operating systems (OSs) are often used to handle SW concurrency and communication. We propose a method of automatic generation of application-specific OSs and automatic targeting of application SW. OS generation starts from a very small, but yet flexible OS kernel. OS services, which are specific to the application and deduced from dependencies created by the system specification, are added to the kernel to construct the whole OS. Communication and synchronization functions in the application code are adapted to the generated OS. As experiments, we applied the proposed method to two system examples: a token-ring system and a very high data-rate digital subscriber line framer

Keywords

digital subscriber lines; embedded systems; operating systems (computers); program compilers; synchronisation; telecommunication computing; token networks; application code; application software; application-specific OSs; application-specific operating systems; automatic generation; automatic targeting; communication functions; digital subscriber line framer; embedded systems software; flexible OS kernel; synchronization functions; token-ring system; very high data-rate DSL framer; Associate members; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Embedded software; Embedded system; Kernel; Memory architecture; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0278-0070

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/43.959858

Filename

959858