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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.2
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, and Peter Wägemann

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 121, 22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024)

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)

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@InProceedings{maroun_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2024.2,
  author =	{Maroun, Emad Jacob and Dengler, Eva and Dietrich, Christian and Hepp, Stefan and Herzog, Henriette and Huber, Benedikt and Knoop, Jens and Wiltsche-Prokesch, Daniel and Puschner, Peter and Raffeck, Phillip and Schoeberl, Martin and Schuster, Simon and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{The Platin Multi-Target Worst-Case Analysis Tool}},
  booktitle =	{22nd International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2024)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:14},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-346-1},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{121},
  editor =	{Carle, Thomas},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204704},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2024.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: worst-case resource consumption, WCET, static analysis tool}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.10
Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices

Authors: Eva Dengler and Peter Wägemann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 298, 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024)

Abstract
The domain of energy-constrained real-time systems that are operated on modern embedded system-on-chip (SoC) platforms brings numerous novel challenges for optimal resource minimization. These modern hardware platforms offer a heterogeneous variety of features to configure the tradeoff between temporal performance and energy efficiency, which goes beyond the state-of-the-art of existing dynamic-voltage-frequency-scaling (DVFS) scheduling schemes. The control center for configuring this tradeoff on platforms are complex clock subsystems that are intertwined with requirements of the SoC’s components (e.g., transceiver/memory/sensor devices). That is, several devices have precedence constraints with respect to specific clock sources and their settings. The challenge of dynamically adapting the various clock sources to select resource-optimal configurations becomes especially challenging in the presence of asynchronous preemptions, which are inherent to systems that use devices. In this paper, we present Crêpe, an approach to clock-reconfiguration-aware preemption control: Crêpe has an understanding of the target platform’s clock subsystem, its sleep states, and penalties to reconfigure clock sources for adapting clock frequencies. Crêpe’s hardware model is combined with an awareness of the application’s device requirements for each executed task, as well as possible interrupts that cause preemptions during runtime. Using these software/hardware constraints, Crêpe employs, in its offline phase, a mathematical formalization in order to select energy-minimal configurations while meeting given deadlines. This optimizing formalization, processed by standard mathematical solver tools, accounts for potentially occurring interrupts and the respective clock reconfigurations, which are then forwarded as alternative schedules to Crêpe’s runtime system. During runtime, the dispatcher assesses these offline-determined alternative schedules and reconfigures the clock sources for energy minimization. We developed an implementation based on a widely-used SoC platform (i.e., ESP32-C3) and an automated testbed for comprehensive energy-consumption evaluations to validate Crêpe’s claim of selecting resource-optimal settings under worst-case considerations.
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Eva Dengler and Peter Wägemann. Crêpe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices. In 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 298, pp. 10:1-10:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{dengler_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.10,
  author =	{Dengler, Eva and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{Cr\^{e}pe: Clock-Reconfiguration-Aware Preemption Control in Real-Time Systems with Devices}},
  booktitle =	{36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-324-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{298},
  editor =	{Pellizzoni, Rodolfo},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203135},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2024.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-constrained real-time systems, time/energy tradeoff, system-on-chip, energy-aware real-time scheduling, resource minimization, preemption control, worst-case energy consumption (WCEC), worst-case execution time (WCET), static whole-system analysis}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.10.1.2
Crêpe: Clock Reconfigurability for Preemption Control (Artifact)

Authors: Eva Dengler and Peter Wägemann

Published in: DARTS, Volume 10, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024)

Abstract
With the emergence of embedded system-on-chip (SoC) platforms, the development of energy-constrained real-time systems brings numerous novel challenges for optimal resource consumption. On these modern hardware platforms, complex clock subsystems make it possible to tradeoff between temporal performance and energy efficiency by reconfiguring the system, which exceeds the state-of-the-art of existing dynamic-voltage-frequency-scaling (DVFS) scheduling schemes. On embedded real-time systems, the usage of the devices (e.g., transceiver/memory/sensor devices) is an essential component to be able to interact with the surrounding world. Each device has precedence constraints with respect to specific clock sources and their settings. Therefore, to select resource-optimal configurations, we need to adapt the clock subsystem, which becomes especially challenging in the presence of asynchronous preemptions, often found during device interaction. This artifact evaluation covers the work of Crêpe, an approach to clock-reconfiguration-aware preemption control on systems with devices. Crêpe makes use of the target platform’s clock subsystem, possible idle modes, and the reconfiguration penalties for adapting the clock subsystem. By combining a hardware model for the device under investigation with an awareness of the required clock configuration for each task, as well as possible interrupts causing preemptions during runtime, Crêpe employs a mathematical formalization to determine energy-minimal configuration sequences while meeting all given deadlines. Before runtime, Crêpe solves the mathematical problem with standard mathematical solver tools and generates optimal execution strategies and clock-system reconfigurations before runtime. These offline-generated schedules are then assessed by the dispatcher during runtime, leading to an overall minimized energy consumption with minimal overhead during execution. Crêpe also consists of an implementation based on a widely-used SoC platform (i.e., ESP32-C3) and an automated testbed for comprehensive energy-consumption evaluations. This artifact evaluation makes use of these to validate Crêpe’s claim of selecting resource-optimal settings under worst-case considerations by reproducing our results shown in the related Crêpe paper [Eva Dengler and Peter Wägemann, 2024].
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Eva Dengler and Peter Wägemann. Crêpe: Clock Reconfigurability for Preemption Control (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 36th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2024). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 10, Issue 1, pp. 2:1-2:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@Article{dengler_et_al:DARTS.10.1.2,
  author =	{Dengler, Eva and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{Cr\^{e}pe: Clock Reconfigurability for Preemption Control (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{2:1--2:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-327-0},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{10},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Dengler, Eva and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.10.1.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-203244},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.10.1.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-constrained real-time systems, time/energy tradeoff, system-on-chip, energy-aware real-time scheduling, resource minimization, preemption control, worst-case energy consumption (WCEC), worst-case execution-time (WCET), static whole-system analysis}
}
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Complete Volume
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023
OASIcs, Volume 114, WCET 2023, Complete Volume

Authors: Peter Wägemann

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 114, 21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023)

Abstract
OASIcs, Volume 114, WCET 2023, Complete Volume
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21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 114, pp. 1-124, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@Proceedings{wagemann:OASIcs.WCET.2023,
  title =	{{OASIcs, Volume 114, WCET 2023, Complete Volume}},
  booktitle =	{21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023)},
  pages =	{1--124},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-293-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{114},
  editor =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184285},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023},
  annote =	{Keywords: OASIcs, Volume 114, WCET 2023, Complete Volume}
}
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Front Matter
DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023.0
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization

Authors: Peter Wägemann

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 114, 21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023)

Abstract
Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization
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21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 114, pp. 0:i-0:x, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{wagemann:OASIcs.WCET.2023.0,
  author =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}},
  booktitle =	{21th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2023)},
  pages =	{0:i--0:x},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-293-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{114},
  editor =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023.0},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-184290},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2023.0},
  annote =	{Keywords: Front Matter, Table of Contents, Preface, Conference Organization}
}
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Artifact
DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.9.1.2
FusionClock: WCEC-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations (Artifact)

Authors: Eva Dengler, Phillip Raffeck, Simon Schuster, and Peter Wägemann

Published in: DARTS, Volume 9, Issue 1, Special Issue of the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)

Abstract
Numerous embedded real-time systems have, besides their worst-case execution time (WCET) requirements, strict worst-case energy consumption (WCEC) constraints that must be satisfied. The core hardware component of modern system-on-chip (SoC) platforms to configure the tradeoff between time and energy is the system’s clock tree, which provides the necessary clock source for each connected device (i.e., memory, sensors, transceivers). Existing energy-aware scheduling approaches have limitations with regard to these modern, feature-rich clock trees: These shortcomings concern the (re-)configuration of the clock tree with the associated penalties, which are a non-negligible part of dynamic frequency/voltage scaling or power-gating devices in addition to the influence of available sleep modes. This artifact evaluation covers the work on FusionClock, an approach that exploits a fine-grained model of the system’s temporal and energetic behavior. By means of our developed clock-tree model, FusionClock processes time-triggered schedules and finally generates optimized code for a system where offline-determined and online-applied reconfigurations lead to the worst-case-optimal energy demand while still meeting given timing-related deadlines. For statically determining these energy-optimal reconfigurations on task level, FusionClock builds a mathematical optimization problem based on the tasks' specifications and the system’s resource-consumption model. Specific components like transceivers of SoCs usually have strict requirements regarding the used clock source (e.g., phase-locked loop, RC network, oscillator). FusionClock accounts for these clock-tree requirements with its ability to exploit application-specific knowledge within an optimization problem. With our resource-consumption model for a modern SoC platform and our open-source prototype of FusionClock, we are able to achieve significant energy savings while still providing guarantees for timeliness, as our evaluations on a real hardware platform (i.e., ESP32-C3) show.
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Eva Dengler, Phillip Raffeck, Simon Schuster, and Peter Wägemann. FusionClock: WCEC-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 2:1-2:3, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@Article{dengler_et_al:DARTS.9.1.2,
  author =	{Dengler, Eva and Raffeck, Phillip and Schuster, Simon and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{FusionClock: WCEC-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{2:1--2:3},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{9},
  number =	{1},
  editor =	{Dengler, Eva and Raffeck, Phillip and Schuster, Simon and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.9.1.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180238},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.9.1.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-constrained real-time systems, worst-case execution time (WCET), worst-case energy consumption (WCEC), energy-aware real-time scheduling, static whole-system analysis, time/energy tradeoff, clock tree, system on chip}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.6
FusionClock: Energy-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems

Authors: Eva Dengler, Phillip Raffeck, Simon Schuster, and Peter Wägemann

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 262, 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)

Abstract
Numerous embedded real-time systems have, besides their timing requirements, strict energy constraints that must be satisfied. Examples of this class of real-time systems are implantable medical devices, where knowledge of the worst-case execution time (WCET) has the same importance as of the worst-case energy consumption (WCEC) in order to provide runtime guarantees. The core hardware component of modern system-on-chip (SoC) platforms to configure the tradeoff between time and energy is the system’s clock tree, which provides the necessary clock source to all connected devices (i.e., memory, sensors, transceivers). Existing energy-aware scheduling approaches have shortcomings with regard to these modern, feature-rich clock trees: First, with their reactive, dynamic (re-)configuration of the clock tree, they are not able to provide static guarantees of the system’s resource consumption (i.e., energy and time). Second, they only account for dynamic voltage/frequency scaling of the CPU and thereby miss the reconfiguration of clock sources and clock speed for the other connected devices on such SoCs. Third, they neglect the reconfiguration penalties of frequency scaling and clock/power gating in the presence of the CPU’s sleep modes. In this paper, we present FusionClock, an approach that exploits a fine-grained model of the system’s temporal and energetic behavior. By means of our developed clock-tree model, FusionClock processes time-triggered schedules and finally generates optimized code for a system where offline-determined and online-applied reconfigurations lead to the worst-case-optimal energy demand while still meeting given timing-related deadlines. For statically determining these energy-optimal reconfigurations on task level, FusionClock builds a mathematical optimization problem based on the tasks' specifications and the system’s resource-consumption model. Specific components like transceivers of SoCs usually have strict requirements regarding the used clock source (e.g., phase-locked loop, RC network, oscillator). FusionClock accounts for these clock-tree requirements with its ability to exploit application-specific knowledge within an optimization problem. With our resource-consumption model for a modern SoC platform and our open-source prototype of FusionClock, we are able to achieve significant energy savings while still providing guarantees for timeliness, as our evaluations on a real hardware platform (i.e., ESP32-C3) show.
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Eva Dengler, Phillip Raffeck, Simon Schuster, and Peter Wägemann. FusionClock: Energy-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems. In 35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 262, pp. 6:1-6:23, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)

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@InProceedings{dengler_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.6,
  author =	{Dengler, Eva and Raffeck, Phillip and Schuster, Simon and W\"{a}gemann, Peter},
  title =	{{FusionClock: Energy-Optimal Clock-Tree Reconfigurations for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems}},
  booktitle =	{35th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2023)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:23},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-280-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{262},
  editor =	{Papadopoulos, Alessandro V.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180354},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2023.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-aware scheduling, device-aware whole-system analysis, clock tree}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2019.4
Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis by Microarchitecture-Aware Timing Analysis for Device-Driven Cyber-Physical Systems

Authors: Phillip Raffeck, Christian Eichler, Peter Wägemann, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 72, 19th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2019)

Abstract
Many energy-constrained cyber-physical systems require both timeliness and the execution of tasks within given energy budgets. That is, besides knowledge on worst-case execution time (WCET), the worst-case energy consumption (WCEC) of operations is essential. Unfortunately, WCET analysis approaches are not directly applicable for deriving WCEC bounds in device-driven cyber-physical systems: For example, a single memory operation can lead to a significant power-consumption increase when thereby switching on a device (e.g. transceiver, actuator) in the embedded system. However, as we demonstrate in this paper, existing approaches from microarchitecture-aware timing analysis (i.e. considering cache and pipeline effects) are beneficial for determining WCEC bounds: We extended our framework on whole-system analysis with microarchitecture-aware timing modeling to precisely account for the execution time that devices are kept (in)active. Our evaluations based on a benchmark generator, which is able to output benchmarks with known baselines (i.e. actual WCET and actual WCEC), and an ARM Cortex-M4 platform validate that the approach significantly reduces analysis pessimism in whole-system WCEC analyses.
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Phillip Raffeck, Christian Eichler, Peter Wägemann, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis by Microarchitecture-Aware Timing Analysis for Device-Driven Cyber-Physical Systems. In 19th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 72, pp. 4:1-4:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019)

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@InProceedings{raffeck_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2019.4,
  author =	{Raffeck, Phillip and Eichler, Christian and W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis by Microarchitecture-Aware Timing Analysis for Device-Driven Cyber-Physical Systems}},
  booktitle =	{19th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2019)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:12},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-118-4},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2019},
  volume =	{72},
  editor =	{Altmeyer, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2019.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-107699},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2019.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: WCEC, WCRE, WCET, michroarchitecture analysis, whole-system analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2018.6
TASKers: A Whole-System Generator for Benchmarking Real-Time-System Analyses

Authors: Christian Eichler, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, Peter Wägemann, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 63, 18th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2018)

Abstract
Implementation-based benchmarking of timing and schedulability analyses requires system code that can be executed on real hardware and has defined properties, for example, known worst-case execution times (WCETs) of tasks. Traditional approaches for creating benchmarks with such characteristics often result in implementations that do not resemble real-world systems, either due to work only being simulated by means of busy waiting, or because tasks have no control-flow dependencies between each other. In this paper, we address this problem with TASKers, a generator that constructs realistic benchmark systems with predefined properties. To achieve this, TASKers composes patterns of real-world programs to generate tasks that produce known outputs and exhibit preconfigured WCETs when being executed with certain inputs. Using this knowledge during the generation process, TASKers is able to specifically introduce inter-task control-flow dependencies by mapping the output of one task to the input of another.
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Christian Eichler, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, Peter Wägemann, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. TASKers: A Whole-System Generator for Benchmarking Real-Time-System Analyses. In 18th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2018). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 63, pp. 6:1-6:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{eichler_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2018.6,
  author =	{Eichler, Christian and Distler, Tobias and Ulbrich, Peter and W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{TASKers: A Whole-System Generator for Benchmarking Real-Time-System Analyses}},
  booktitle =	{18th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2018)},
  pages =	{6:1--6:12},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-073-6},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{63},
  editor =	{Brandner, Florian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2018.6},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-97528},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2018.6},
  annote =	{Keywords: benchmarking real-time-system analyses, task-set generation, whole-system generation, static timing analysis, WCET analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.24
Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems

Authors: Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 106, 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)

Abstract
Although internal devices (e.g., memory, timers) and external devices (e.g., transceivers, sensors) significantly contribute to the energy consumption of an embedded real-time system, their impact on the worst-case response energy consumption (WCRE) of tasks is usually not adequately taken into account. Most WCRE analysis techniques, for example, only focus on the processor and therefore do not consider the energy consumption of other hardware units. Apart from that, the typical approach for dealing with devices is to assume that all of them are always activated, which leads to high WCRE overestimations in the general case where a system switches off the devices that are currently not needed in order to minimize energy consumption. In this paper, we present SysWCEC, an approach that addresses these problems by enabling static WCRE analysis for entire real-time systems, including internal as well as external devices. For this purpose, SysWCEC introduces a novel abstraction, the power-state-transition graph, which contains information about the worst-case energy consumption of all possible execution paths. To construct the graph, SysWCEC decomposes the analyzed real-time system into blocks during which the set of active devices in the system does not change and is consequently able to precisely handle devices being dynamically activated or deactivated.
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Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems. In 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 106, pp. 24:1-24:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{wagemann_et_al:LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.24,
  author =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Dietrich, Christian and Distler, Tobias and Ulbrich, Peter and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Whole-System Worst-Case Energy-Consumption Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems}},
  booktitle =	{30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)},
  pages =	{24:1--24:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-075-0},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{106},
  editor =	{Altmeyer, Sebastian},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.24},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-89795},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2018.24},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-constrained real-time systems, worst-case energy consumption (WCEC), worst-case response energy consumption (WCRE), static whole-system analysis}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/DARTS.4.2.7
Whole-System WCEC Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems (Artifact)

Authors: Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Published in: DARTS, Volume 4, Issue 2, Special Issue of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018)

Abstract
Although internal devices (e.g., memory, timers) and external devices (e.g., sensors, transceivers) significantly contribute to the energy consumption of an embedded real-time system, their impact on the worst-case response energy consumption (WCRE) of tasks is usually not adequately taken into account. Most WCRE analysis techniques only focus on the processor and neglect the energy consumption of other hardware units that are temporarily activated and deactivated in the system. To solve the problem of system-wide energy-consumption analysis, we present SysWCEC, an approach that addresses these problems by enabling static WCRE analysis for entire real-time systems, including internal as well as external devices. For this purpose, SysWCEC introduces a novel abstraction, the power-state--transition graph, which contains information about the worst-case energy consumption of all possible execution paths. To construct the graph, SysWCEC decomposes the analyzed real-time system into blocks during which the set of active devices in the system does not change and is consequently able to precisely handle devices being dynamically activated or deactivated. In this artifact evaluation, which accompanies our related conference paper, we present easy to reproduce WCRE analyses with the SysWCEC framework using several benchmarks. The artifact comprises the generation of the power-state--transition graph from a given benchmark system and the formulation of an integer linear program whose solution eventually yields safe WCRE bounds.
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Peter Wägemann, Christian Dietrich, Tobias Distler, Peter Ulbrich, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. Whole-System WCEC Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems (Artifact). In Special Issue of the 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2018). Dagstuhl Artifacts Series (DARTS), Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 7:1-7:4, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@Article{wagemann_et_al:DARTS.4.2.7,
  author =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Dietrich, Christian and Distler, Tobias and Ulbrich, Peter and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{Whole-System WCEC Analysis for Energy-Constrained Real-Time Systems (Artifact)}},
  pages =	{7:1--7:4},
  journal =	{Dagstuhl Artifacts Series},
  ISSN =	{2509-8195},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{4},
  number =	{2},
  editor =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Dietrich, Christian and Distler, Tobias and Ulbrich, Peter and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DARTS.4.2.7},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-89756},
  doi =		{10.4230/DARTS.4.2.7},
  annote =	{Keywords: energy-constrained real-time systems, worst-case energy consumption (WCEC), worst-case response energy consumption (WCRE), static whole-system analysi}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2016.2
TACLeBench: A Benchmark Collection to Support Worst-Case Execution Time Research

Authors: Heiko Falk, Sebastian Altmeyer, Peter Hellinckx, Björn Lisper, Wolfgang Puffitsch, Christine Rochange, Martin Schoeberl, Rasmus Bo Sørensen, Peter Wägemann, and Simon Wegener

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 55, 16th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2016)

Abstract
Engineering related research, such as research on worst-case execution time, uses experimentation to evaluate ideas. For these experiments we need example programs. Furthermore, to make the research experimentation repeatable those programs shall be made publicly available. We collected open-source programs, adapted them to a common coding style, and provide the collection in open-source. The benchmark collection is called TACLeBench and is available from GitHub in version 1.9 at the publication date of this paper. One of the main features of TACLeBench is that all programs are self-contained without any dependencies on standard libraries or an operating system.
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Heiko Falk, Sebastian Altmeyer, Peter Hellinckx, Björn Lisper, Wolfgang Puffitsch, Christine Rochange, Martin Schoeberl, Rasmus Bo Sørensen, Peter Wägemann, and Simon Wegener. TACLeBench: A Benchmark Collection to Support Worst-Case Execution Time Research. In 16th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2016). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 55, pp. 2:1-2:10, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)

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@InProceedings{falk_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2016.2,
  author =	{Falk, Heiko and Altmeyer, Sebastian and Hellinckx, Peter and Lisper, Bj\"{o}rn and Puffitsch, Wolfgang and Rochange, Christine and Schoeberl, Martin and S{\o}rensen, Rasmus Bo and W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Wegener, Simon},
  title =	{{TACLeBench: A Benchmark Collection to Support Worst-Case Execution Time Research}},
  booktitle =	{16th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2016)},
  pages =	{2:1--2:10},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-025-5},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{55},
  editor =	{Schoeberl, Martin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2016.2},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-68958},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2016.2},
  annote =	{Keywords: Benchmark, WCET analysis, real-time systems}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2015.33
GenE: A Benchmark Generator for WCET Analysis

Authors: Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Timo Hönig, Volkmar Sieh, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat

Published in: OASIcs, Volume 47, 15th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2015)

Abstract
The fact that many benchmarks for evaluating worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis tools are based on real-world applications greatly increases the value of their results. However, at the same time, the complexity of these programs makes it difficult, sometimes even impossible, to obtain all corresponding flow facts (i.e., loop bounds, infeasible paths, and input values triggering the WCET), which are essential for a comprehensive evaluation. In this paper, we address this problem by presenting GenE, a benchmark generator that in addition to source code also provides the flow facts of the benchmarks created. To generate a new benchmark, the tool combines code patterns that are commonly found in real-time applications and are challenging for WCET analyzers. By keeping track of how patterns are put together, GenE is able to determine the flow facts of the resulting benchmark based on the known flow facts of the patterns used. Using this information, it is straightforward to synthesize the accurate WCET, which can then serve as a baseline for the evaluation of WCET analyzers.
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Peter Wägemann, Tobias Distler, Timo Hönig, Volkmar Sieh, and Wolfgang Schröder-Preikschat. GenE: A Benchmark Generator for WCET Analysis. In 15th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2015). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 47, pp. 33-43, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2015)

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@InProceedings{wagemann_et_al:OASIcs.WCET.2015.33,
  author =	{W\"{a}gemann, Peter and Distler, Tobias and H\"{o}nig, Timo and Sieh, Volkmar and Schr\"{o}der-Preikschat, Wolfgang},
  title =	{{GenE: A Benchmark Generator for WCET Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{15th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2015)},
  pages =	{33--43},
  series =	{Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-939897-95-8},
  ISSN =	{2190-6807},
  year =	{2015},
  volume =	{47},
  editor =	{Cazorla, Francisco J.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2015.33},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-52545},
  doi =		{10.4230/OASIcs.WCET.2015.33},
  annote =	{Keywords: WCET, benchmark generation, flow facts, WCET Tool Challenge}
}
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