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From Dataflow Specification to Multiprocessor Partitioned Time-triggered Real-time Implementation

Authors Thomas Carle , Dumitru Potop-Butucaru , Yves Sorel, David Lesens

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  • Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
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  • Time-triggered
  • Off-line real-time scheduling
  • Temporal partitioning

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Abstract

Our objective is to facilitate the development of complex time-triggered systems by automating the allocation and scheduling steps. We show that full automation is possible while taking into account the elements of complexity needed by a complex embedded control system. More precisely, we consider deterministic functional specifications provided (as often in an industrial setting) by means of synchronous data-flow models with multiple modes and multiple relative periods. We first extend this functional model with an original real-time characterization that takes advantage of our time-triggered framework to provide a simpler representation of complex end-to-end flow requirements. We also extend our specifications with additional non-functional properties specifying partitioning, allocation, and preemptability constraints. Then, we provide novel algorithms for the off-line scheduling of these extended specifications onto partitioned time-triggered architectures à la ARINC 653. The main originality of our work is that it takes into account at the same time multiple complexity elements: various types of non-functional properties (real-time, partitioning, allocation, preemptability) and functional specifications with conditional execution and multiple modes. Allocation of time slots/windows to partitions can be fully or partially provided, or synthesized by our tool. Our algorithms allow the automatic allocation and scheduling onto multi-processor (distributed) systems with a global time base, taking into account communication costs. We demonstrate our technique on a model of space flight software system with strong real-time determinism requirements.

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Thomas Carle, Dumitru Potop-Butucaru, Yves Sorel, and David Lesens. From Dataflow Specification to Multiprocessor Partitioned Time-triggered Real-time Implementation. In LITES, Volume 2, Issue 2 (2015). Leibniz Transactions on Embedded Systems, Volume 2, Issue 2, pp. 01:1-01:30, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015) https://doi.org/10.4230/LITES-v002-i002-a001

Author Details

Thomas Carle
  • Brown University, 247 Browen Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906
Dumitru Potop-Butucaru
  • INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt - B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay
Yves Sorel
  • INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, Domaine de Voluceau, Rocquencourt - B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay
David Lesens
  • Airbus Defence & Space, Route de Verneuil, 78133 Les Mureaux, France

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