• Contention-aware performance monitoring counter support for real-time MPSoCs 

      Jalle Ibarra, Javier; Fernández, Mikel; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Andersson, Jan; Patte, Mathieu; Fossati, Luca; Zulianello, Marco; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Tasks running in MPSoCs experience contention delays when accessing MPSoC’s shared resources, complicating task timing analysis and deriving execution time bounds. Understanding the Actual Contention Delay (ACD) each task ...
    • Data bus slicing for contention-free multicore real-time memory systems 

      Jalle Ibarra, Javier; Quiñones, Eduardo; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Fossati, Luca; Zulianello, Marco; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
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      Memory access contention is one of the main contributors to tasks' execution time variability in real-Time multicores. Existing techniques to control memory contention based on time-sharing memory access do not scale well ...
    • Deconstructing bus access control policies for real-time multicores 

      Jalle Ibarra, Javier; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Quiñones, Eduardo; Fossati, Luca; Zulianello, Marco; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
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      Multicores may satisfy the growing performance requirements of critical Real-Time systems which has made industry to consider them for future real-time systems. In a multicore, the bus contention-control policy plays a key ...
    • Probabilistic timing analysis on time-randomized platforms for the space domain 

      Fernandez, Mikel; Morales, David; Kosmidis, Leonidas; Bardizbanyan, Alen; Broster, Ian; Hernandez, Carles; Quiñones, Eduardo; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Cazorla, Francisco; Machado, Paulo; Fossati, Luca (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-05-15)
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      Timing Verification is a fundamental step in real-time embedded systems, with measurement-based timing analysis (MBTA) being the most common approach used to that end. We present a Space case study on a real platform that ...
    • Seeking time-composable partitions of tasks for COTS multicore processors 

      Fernández, Gabriel; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Quiñones, Eduardo; Fossati, Luca; Zulianello, Marco; Vardanega, Tullio; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
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      The timing verification of real-time single core systems involves a timing analysis step that yields an Execution Time Bound (ETB) for each task, followed by a schedulability analysis step, where the scheduling attributes ...
    • Validating a timing simulator for the NGMP multicore processor 

      Jalle Ibarra, Javier; Abella Ferrer, Jaume; Fossati, Luca; Zulianello, Marco; Cazorla Almeida, Francisco Javier (European Space Agency (ESA), 2016)
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      Timing simulation is a key element in multicore systems design. It enables a fast and cost effective design space exploration, allowing to simulate new architectural improvements without requiring RTL abstraction levels. ...