A Lightweight Spatio-Temporally Partitioned Multicore Architecture for Concurrent Execution of Safety Critical Workloads
2016-01-2067
09/20/2016
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- Modern aircraft systems employ numerous processors to achieve system functionality. In particular, engine controls and power distribution subsystems rely heavily on software to provide safety-critical functionality, and are expected to move toward multicore architectures. The computing hardware-layer of avionic systems must be able to execute many concurrent workloads under tight deterministic execution guarantees to meet the safety standards. Single-chip multicores are attractive for safety-critical embedded systems due to their lightweight form factor. However, multicores aggressively share hardware resources, leading to interference that in turn creates non-deterministic execution for multiple concurrent workloads. We propose an approach to remove on-chip interference via a set of methods to spatio-temporally partition shared multicore resources. Our proposed partitioning scheme is bounded within the worst case execution, and ensures efficient performance and deterministic execution.
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- Citation
- Shi, Q., Lakshminarashimhan, K., Noll, C., Scholte, E. et al., "A Lightweight Spatio-Temporally Partitioned Multicore Architecture for Concurrent Execution of Safety Critical Workloads," SAE Technical Paper 2016-01-2067, 2016, https://doi.org/10.4271/2016-01-2067.