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Hardware/Software Partitioning of Operating Systems

The δ Hardware/Software RTOS Generation Framework for SoC

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We present a few specific hardware/software partitions for real-time operating systems and a framework able to automatically generate a large variety of such partitioned RTOSes. Starting from the traditional view of an operating system, we explore novel ways to partition the OS functionality between hardware and software. We show how such partitioning can result in large performance gains in specific cases involving multiprocessor System-on-a-Chip scenarios.

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    Vincent J. Mooney III

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  1. TIMA Laboratory, France

    Ahmed Amine Jerraya  & Sungjoo Yoo  & 

  2. IMEC, Belgium

    Diederik Verkest

  3. University of Kaiserlautern, Germany

    Norbert Wehn

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Mooney, V.J. (2003). Hardware/Software Partitioning of Operating Systems. In: Jerraya, A.A., Yoo, S., Verkest, D., Wehn, N. (eds) Embedded Software for SoC. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48709-8_15

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