HardwareScheduling Support in SMP Architecture
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Authors
Nacul A. C.,
Regazzoni F.,
Lajolo M.
Type
Article in conference proceedings
Year
2007
Language
English
Abstract
In this paper the authors propose a hardware real time operating system (HW-RTOS) that implements the OS layer in a dual-processor SMP architecture. Intertask communication is specified by means of dedicated APIs and the HW-RTOS takes care of the communication requirements of the application and also implements the task scheduling algorithm. The HW-RTOS allows to have smaller footprints, since it avoids the need to link to the final executables traditional software RTOS libraries. Moreover, the HW-RTOS is able to exploit the easy task migration feature provided by an SMP architecture much more efficiently than a traditional software RTOS, due to its faster execution and the authors show how this significantly overcomes the performance achievable with optimal static task partitioning among two processors. Preliminary results show that the hardware overhead in a dual processor architecture is less than 20K gates.
Conference proceedings
Design, Automation and Test in Europe(DATE)
Month
April
Meeting place
Nice, France
Keywords
HW/SW co-design, multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC), real time operating systems
