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 …

As the performance requirements of today's real-time systems are on the rise, system
engineers are increasingly forced to optimize and tune the execution time of real-time …

The time-predictable design of computer architectures for the use in (hard) real-time systems
is becoming more and more important, due to the increasing complexity of modern computer …

Real-time systems need time-predictable computing platforms to allow for static analysis of
the worst-case execution time. Caches are important for good performance, but data caches …

The design of tailored hardware has proven a successful strategy to reduce the timing
analysis overhead for (hard) real-time systems. The stack cache is an example of such a …

Modern computer architectures use features which often com-plicate the WCET analysis of
real-time software. Alterna-tive time-predictable designs, and in particular caches, thus are …

Utilizing a stack cache in a real-time system can aid predictability by avoiding interference
between accesses to regular data and stack data. While loads and stores are guaranteed …

The design of tailored hardware has proven a successful strategy to reduce the timing
analysis overhead for (hard) real-time systems. The stack cache is an example of such a …

Energy consumption is the major limitation to achieving exascale computing systems.
Caches are essential components that dissipate a large proportion of processor's energy …

The growing complexity of modern computer architectures increasingly complicates the
prediction of the run-time behavior of software. For real-time systems, where a safe …