Dynamic shared SPM reuse for real-time multicore embedded systems

ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Kafshdooz, Morteza Mohajjel ^a   Ejlali, Alireza ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Embedded real time systems; Multicore processors; Scheduling; Scratchpad memory; Shared memory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEMORY ARCHITECTURE; MULTITASKING; OPTIMIZATION; SCHEDULING; SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS;

EMBEDDED REAL TIME SYSTEMS; MULTI-CORE EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MULTI-CORE PROCESSOR; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; REAL-TIME APPLICATION; SCRATCH PAD MEMORY; SHARED MEMORY; WORST-CASE EXECUTION TIME;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 84930176454     PISSN: 15443566     EISSN: 15443973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2738051     Document Type: Article

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