Modeling, Verification and Exploration of Task-Level Concurrency in Real-Time Embedded Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

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3. Related Work and Contemporary Approaches

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

   Pages 41-77

4. System Representation Model

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

   Pages 79-171

5. Timing Analysis

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

   Pages 173-287

6. System Synthesis Methodology

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

   Pages 289-382

7. Conclusions

   • Filip Thoen, Francky Catthoor

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8. Back Matter

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system is a complex object containing a significant percentage of elec­ A tronics that interacts with the Real World (physical environments, humans, etc. ) through sensing and actuating devices. A system is heterogeneous, i. e. , is characterized by the co-existence of a large number of components of disparate type and function (for example, programmable components such as micro­ processors and Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), analog components such as AID and D/A converters, sensors, transmitters and receivers). Any approach to system design today must include software concerns to be viable. In fact, it is now common knowledge that more than 70% of the development cost for complex systems such as automotive electronics and communication systems are due to software development. In addition, this percentage is increasing constantly. It has been my take for years that the so-called hardware-software co-design problem is formulated at a too low level to yield significant results in shorten­ ing design time to the point needed for next generation electronic devices and systems. The level of abstraction has to be raised to the Architecture-Function co-design problem, where Function refers to the operations that the system is supposed to carry out and Architecture is the set of supporting components for that functionality. The supporting components as we said above are heteroge­ neous and contain almost always programmable components.

• Layer
• Signal
• VLSI
• complex system
• complex systems
• computer
• computer-aided design (CAD)
• electrical engineering
• embedded systems
• integrated circuit
• layers
• model
• modeling
• software
• system

• National Semiconductor Corporation, Santa Clara, USA

  Filip Thoen

• IMEC, Leuven, Belgium

  Francky Catthoor

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