With Real-Time Performance Analysis and Monitoring to Timing Predictable Use of Multi-core Architectures

Motivation

With future societies and individuals possibly becoming more and more dependent on highly capable (control) systems, the ability to carry out precise system analysis and to enforce the expected behaviour of systems at run-time, i. e., during their operation, could become an irrevocable requirement. -Who would accept that a computer takes full or partial control over one’s car without believing that the system is always reacting as expected?- Correctness of system designs and their implementations is only one aspect. The other major aspect is the capability to build cost-effective systems. Advances in (consumer) electronics have brought about multi-cored micro-controllers equipped with considerably large memory. This will stimulate the building of embedded (control) systems where multiple applications can be integrated into a single controller and thereby effectively lower the per unit costs of a system as a whole.