Time-Predictable Architectures

Building computers that can be used to design embedded real-time systems is the subject of this title. Real-time embedded software requires increasingly higher performances. The authors therefore consider processors that implement advanced mechanisms such as pipelining, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, cache memories, multi-threading, multicorearchitectures, etc. The authors of this book investigate the timepredictability of such schemes.

Keywords: Time-predictable architecture; real-time systems; pipelining; out-of-order execution; branch prediction; cache memories; multi-threading; multi-core activities