Semi-automatic derivation of timing models for WCET analysis

ACM SIGPLAN Notices

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Schlickling, Marc ^a   Pister, Markus ^b  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b AbsInt Angewandte Informatik GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hard real time; VHDL; Worst case execution time

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; SAFETY ENGINEERING; SECURITY SYSTEMS; SPECIFICATIONS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

ABSTRACT INTERPRETATIONS; FLIGHT CONTROL COMPUTER; FUNCTIONAL CORRECTNESS; HARD REAL-TIME; HARD REAL-TIME SYSTEMS; HARDWARE SPECIFICATIONS; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 77951215744     PISSN: 15232867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1755951.1755899     Document Type: Article

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