Towards predictable execution model on ARM-based heterogeneous platforms

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIE.2017.8001432" target="_blank" >10.1109/ISIE.2017.8001432</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Towards predictable execution model on ARM-based heterogeneous platforms

Original language description

Many today's real-time applications, such as Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADAS), demand both high computing power and safety guarantees. High computing power can be easily delivered by, now ubiquitous, multi-core CPUs or by a heterogeneous system with a multi-core CPU and a parallel accelerator such as a GPU. Reaching the required safety level in such a system is by far more difficult because the commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) high-performance platforms contain many shared resources (e.g. main memory) with arbiters not designed to provide real-time guarantees. A promising approach to address this problem, known as PRedictable Execution Model (PREM), was introduced by Pellizzoni et al. [1]. We are interested in applying PREM to ARM-based heterogeneous platforms, but so far, all PREM-related work has been done on x86 or PowerPC. In this paper, we introduce several building blocks that are needed for implementing PREM on NVIDIA Tegra X1 platform. We propose a modification of the MemGuard tool to be practically usable on ARM platforms. We also analyse a throttling mechanism of Tegra X1 memory controller, that allows controlling memory bandwidth of non-CPU clients such as the GPU. We show that this mechanism can be used to make the execution time of CPU tasks more predictable.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics

ISBN

978-1-5090-1412-5

ISSN

2163-5137

e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1297-1302

Publisher name

IEEE

Place of publication

Piscataway, NJ

Event location

ISIE 2017

Event date

Jul 18, 2017

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000426794000204