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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.PPES.2011.11

Towards a Time-predictable Dual-Issue Microprocessor: The Patmos Approach

Authors: Martin Schoeberl, Pascal Schleuniger, Wolfgang Puffitsch, Florian Brandner, and Christian W. Probst

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 18, Bringing Theory to Practice: Predictability and Performance in Embedded Systems (2011)

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Current processors are optimized for average case performance, often leading to a high worst-case execution time (WCET). Many architectural features that increase the average case performance are hard to be modeled for the WCET analysis. In this paper we present Patmos, a processor optimized for low WCET bounds rather than high average case performance. Patmos is a dual-issue, statically scheduled RISC processor. The instruction cache is organized as a method cache and the data cache is organized as a split cache in order to simplify the cache WCET analysis. To fill the dual-issue pipeline with enough useful instructions, Patmos relies on a customized compiler. The compiler also plays a central role in optimizing the application for the WCET instead of average case performance.

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Martin Schoeberl, Pascal Schleuniger, Wolfgang Puffitsch, Florian Brandner, and Christian W. Probst. Towards a Time-predictable Dual-Issue Microprocessor: The Patmos Approach. In Bringing Theory to Practice: Predictability and Performance in Embedded Systems. Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 18, pp. 11-21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2011)

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@InProceedings{schoeberl_et_al:OASIcs.PPES.2011.11,
  author =	{Schoeberl, Martin and Schleuniger, Pascal and Puffitsch, Wolfgang and Brandner, Florian and Probst, Christian W.},
  title =	{{Towards a Time-predictable Dual-Issue Microprocessor: The Patmos Approach}},
  booktitle =	{Bringing Theory to Practice: Predictability and Performance in Embedded Systems},
  pages =	{11--21},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-28-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2011},
  volume =	{18},
  editor =	{Lucas, Philipp and Wilhelm, Reinhard},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.PPES.2011.11},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-30774},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.PPES.2011.11},
  annote =	{Keywords: Time-predictable architecture, WCET analysis, WCET-aware compilation}
}

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