A Cross-Domain System Architecture for Embedded Hard Real-Time Many-Core Systems

The EC project parMERASA investigates techniques for the parallelization of industrial real-time applications from automotive, avionic, and construction machinery domains. The aim is to execute such applications on many-core processors with up to 64 cores. The system software plays a key role in the deployment of applications. However, requirements of application domains differ widely, and thus no general solution can be implemented. In this paper we present the cross-domain system architecture utilized in the parMERASA project to provide Runtime Environments (RTEs) for the three different domains. The approach eases the implementation of domain-specific RTEs through a generic kernel library that provides basic hardware abstractions and timing-analyzable synchronization mechanisms.