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The Platin Multi-Target Worst-Case Analysis Tool

Authors Emad Jacob Maroun , Eva Dengler , Christian Dietrich, Stefan Hepp, Henriette Herzog , Benedikt Huber, Jens Knoop, Daniel Wiltsche-Prokesch, Peter Puschner , Phillip Raffeck , Martin Schoeberl , Simon Schuster, Peter Wägemann

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  • Software and its engineering → Automated static analysis
  • Software and its engineering → Compilers
  • Computer systems organization → Real-time systems
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  • worst-case resource consumption
  • WCET
  • static analysis tool

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Abstract

With the increasing number of applications that require reliable runtime guarantees, the relevance of static worst-case analysis tools that can provide such guarantees increases. These analysis tools determine resource-consumption bounds of application tasks, with a model of the underlying hardware, to meet given resource budgets during runtime, such as deadlines of real-time tasks.
This paper presents enhancements to the Platin worst-case analysis tool developed since its original release more than ten years ago. These novelties comprise Platin’s support for new architectures (i.e., ARMv6-M, RISC-V, and AVR) in addition to the previous backends for Patmos and ARMv7-M. Further, Platin now features system-wide analysis methods and annotation support to express system-level constraints. Besides an overview of these enhancements, we evaluate Platin’s accuracy for the two supported architecture implementations, Patmos and RISC-V.

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Emad Jacob Maroun, Eva Dengler, Christian Dietrich, Stefan Hepp, Henriette Herzog, Benedikt Huber, Jens Knoop, Daniel Wiltsche-Prokesch, Peter Puschner, Phillip Raffeck, Martin Schoeberl, Simon Schuster, and Peter Wägemann. The Platin Multi-Target Worst-Case Analysis Tool. In 22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 121, pp. 2:1-2:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.2

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Emad Jacob Maroun
  • Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Eva Dengler
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Christian Dietrich
  • Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Stefan Hepp
  • Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Henriette Herzog
  • Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany
Benedikt Huber
  • Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Jens Knoop
  • Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Daniel Wiltsche-Prokesch
  • Hitachi Rail, Wien, Austria
Peter Puschner
  • Technische Universität Wien, Austria
Phillip Raffeck
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Martin Schoeberl
  • Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
Simon Schuster
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Peter Wägemann
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

Funding

The contributions of Emad Jacob Maroun have been funded by Huawei Technologies Sweden AB under agreement number TC20220819029. Authors from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg have been funded in parts by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the project number 502947440 (Watwa).

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