Real-time systems need time-predictable platforms to allow static analysis of the worst-case
execution time (WCET). Standard multi-core processors are optimized for the average case …

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contributed articles moSt microproceSSorS Are embedded in systems that are not first-and-foremost …

The Merasa project aims to achieve a breakthrough in hardware design, hard real-time
support in system software, and worst-case execution time analysis tools for embedded …

Mixed-criticality systems, in which multiple tasks of varying criticality execute on a single
hardware platform, are an emerging research area in real-time embedded systems. High …

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) has been a popular research area in the last decade. The
dependability of CPS is still a critical issue, and few surveys have been published in this …

A large class of embedded systems is distinguished from general-purpose computing
systems by the need to satisfy strict requirements on timing, often under constraints on …

Nowadays, scientists and companies are confronted with multiple competing goals such as
makespan in high-performance computing and economic cost in Clouds that have to be …

In this work, we present Vicuna, a timing-predictable vector coprocessor. A vector processor
can be scaled to satisfy the performance requirements of massively parallel computation …

Security violations are becoming more common in real-time systems-an area that was
considered to be invulnerable in the past-as evidenced by the recent W32. Stuxnet and …

Current processors provide high average-case performance, as they are optimized for
general purpose computing. However, those optimizations often lead to a high worst-case …