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The Heptane Static Worst-Case Execution Time Estimation Tool

Authors Damien Hardy, Benjamin Rouxel, Isabelle Puaut

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Damien Hardy
Benjamin Rouxel
Isabelle Puaut

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Damien Hardy, Benjamin Rouxel, and Isabelle Puaut. The Heptane Static Worst-Case Execution Time Estimation Tool. In 17th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2017). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 57, pp. 8:1-8:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2017.8

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Estimation of worst-case execution times (WCETs) is required to validate the temporal behavior of hard real time systems. Heptane is an open-source software program that estimates upper bounds of execution times on MIPS and ARM v7 architectures, offered to the WCET estimation community to experiment new WCET estimation techniques. The software architecture of Heptane was designed to be as modular and extensible as possible to facilitate the integration of new approaches. This paper is devoted to a description of Heptane, and includes information on the analyses it implements, how to use it and extend it.

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  • Worst-Case Execution Time Estimation
  • Static Analysis
  • WCET Estimation Tool
  • Implicit Path Enumeration Technique

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