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In this contribution, a short overview of our early collaboration with Prof. Halang is given. Our joint research is briefly described and some results presented. First, prerequisite considerations are given, then the asymmetrical architecture exhibiting a dedicated processor for operating system kernel functions is outlined. Its design is further elaborated, divided in several parts. Then, an early implementation with microcontrollers and a dedicated processor for parallel architectures is shown, together with the programming constructs supporting tasking and temporal operations. It is interesting that the main ideas are still actual and are open to further elaboration with the modern technology, especially because the fully predictable processors for embedded applications are still not available.
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Colnarič, M. (2012). Struggle for Temporal Predictability of Processors for Real-Time Environments, Revisited 20 Years after. In: Unger, H., Kyamaky, K., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Autonomous Systems: Developments and Trends. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 391. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24806-1_1
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