Michael Zimmer and David Broman and Christopher Shaver and Edward A. Lee

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2013-172

October 23, 2013

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-172.pdf

Mixed-criticality systems, in which multiple tasks of varying criticality are executed on a single hardware platform, are an emerging research area in real-time embedded systems. High-criticality tasks require spatial and temporal isolation guarantees, whereas low-criticality tasks should efficiently utilize hardware resources. Hardware-based isolation is desirable, but commonly underutilizes hardware resources, which can consist of multiple single-core, multicore, or multithreaded processors. We present FlexPRET, a processor designed specifically for mixed-criticality systems by allowing each task to make a trade-off between hardware-based isolation and efficient processor utilization. FlexPRET uses fine-grained multithreading with flexible scheduling and timing instructions to provide this functionality.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Zimmer:EECS-2013-172,
    Author= {Zimmer, Michael and Broman, David and Shaver, Christopher and Lee, Edward A.},
    Title= {FlexPRET: A Processor Platform for Mixed-Criticality Systems},
    Year= {2013},
    Month= {Oct},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-172.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2013-172},
    Abstract= {Mixed-criticality systems, in which multiple tasks of varying criticality are executed on a single hardware platform, are an emerging research area in real-time embedded systems. High-criticality tasks require spatial and temporal isolation guarantees, whereas low-criticality tasks should efficiently utilize hardware resources. Hardware-based isolation is desirable, but commonly underutilizes hardware resources, which can consist of multiple single-core, multicore, or multithreaded processors. We present FlexPRET, a processor designed specifically for mixed-criticality systems by allowing each task to make a trade-off between hardware-based isolation and efficient processor utilization. FlexPRET uses fine-grained multithreading with flexible scheduling and timing instructions to provide this functionality.},
}

EndNote citation:

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%A Broman, David 
%A Shaver, Christopher 
%A Lee, Edward A. 
%T FlexPRET: A Processor Platform for Mixed-Criticality Systems
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2013
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