Title :
Predictable architecture for real-time systems
Author_Institution :
Inst. of AI&PR, Shantou Univ., Guangdong, China
Abstract :
Architecture used to support real-time applications must have the ability to achieve predictability. This paper surveys the problems and solutions related to conventional architectures for predictable real-time systems. Issues covered include caches, pipelines, context switches, real-time clock and hardware queues. This paper, also proposes the approaches in a constructive way that it is possible to design computer architectures that are apt for real-time control. Such architectures avoid the harmful features of conventional computers and allow worst-case timing analyses
Keywords :
cache storage; clocks; computer architecture; pipeline processing; real-time systems; caches; computer architecture design; context switches; hardware queues; pipelines; predictable architecture; real-time applications; real-time clock; real-time control; real-time systems; worst-case timing analysis; Application software; Computer architecture; Delay; Hardware; Memory management; Operating systems; Pipeline processing; Real time systems; Switches; Timing;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 1997. ICICS., Proceedings of 1997 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3676-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.1997.652298