Institute of Computer Languages
Compilers and Languages Group
über
| Datum: | Donnerstag, 13. Oktober 2011 |
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| Zeit: | 16:00 c.t. |
| Ort: | EI 10 Fritz Paschke Hörsaal, Gsshausstrasse 25-29 (Neubau), Erdgeschoss |
Hard real-time systems are subject to stringent timing constraints, which are dictated by the
surrounding physical environment. A schedulability analysis has to be performed in order to
guarantee that all timing constraints will be met. Existing techniques for schedulability analysis
require upper bounds for the execution times of all the system's tasks to be known. These upper
bounds are commonly called worst-case execution times (WCETs). The WCET-determination
problem has become non-trivial due to the advent of processor features such as caches, pipelines,
and all kinds of speculation, which make the execution time of an individual instruction locally
unpredictable. Such execution times may vary between a few cycles and several hundred cycles.
A combination of Abstract Interpretation (AI) with Integer Linear Programming (ILP) has
been successfully used to determine precise upper bounds on the execution times of real-time
programs. The task solved by abstract interpretation is to compute invariants about the
processor's execution states at all program points. These invariants describe the contents of caches, of
the pipeline, of prediction units etc. They allow to verify local safety properties, safety properties
who correspond to the absence of "timing accidents". Timing accidents, e.g. cache misses,
pipeline stalls are reasons for the increase of the execution time of an individual instruction in
an execution state.
The technology and tools have been used in the certification of several time-critical subsystems
of the Airbus A380. The AbsInt tool, aiT, is the only tool worldwide, validated for these
avionics applications
I will give an introduction to our timing-analysis method, present results about the
predictability of cache architectures, and give an overview of current work and open problems.
Prof. Reinhard Wilhelm is a full Professor of Computer Science at the Saarland
University, Saarbrücken and the Scientific Director of the International Conference and Research
Center for Computer Science, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany. He is the cofounder of AbsInt, a company
developing software tools for embedded systems. The research activities of Prof. Reinhard
Wilhelm cover a wide range of topics, including compiler generation, program analysis, and software
visualisation. His contributions to research have been honored by several awards and prizes.
To name a few, Prof. Wilhelm is an ACM Fellow, and he received the European IST Prize with
the spin-off company AbsInt, the Alwin Walther Medal, the Konrad-Zuse Medal and the ACM
Distinguished Service Award.
(http://rw4.cs.uni-saarland.de/people/wilhelm.shtml)
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