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Using a WCET Analysis Tool in Real-Time Systems Education

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Authors: Samuel Pettersson (external), Andreas Ermedahl (former), Anders Pettersson, Daniel Sundmark, Niklas Holsti (Tidorum LTD)
Source: Fifth International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, Editor(s):Reinhard Willhelm
 

Abstract

To reach a more widespread use, WCET analysis tools need to be a standard part in the education of embedded systems developers. Many real-time courses in academia use Lego Mindstorms, an off-the-shelf kit of Lego bricks for building and controlling small prototype robots. We describe work on porting the Bound-T WCET analysis tool to the Lego Mindstorms microprocessor; the Renesas H8/3292. We believe that this work will make students, and indirectly the industry of tomorrow, aware of the benefits of WCET analysis tools. We also present the real-time laboratory framework in which this WCET analysis tool will be used. The framework has been developed with schedulability and timing predictability in mind, and is already used in a number of real-time courses given at Mälardalen University in Sweden. The developed WCET tool and the real-time laboratory framework will be freely available for academic use.
 

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Pettersson_0975:2005,
   author = {Samuel Pettersson and Andreas Ermedahl and Anders Pettersson and Daniel Sundmark and Niklas Holsti},
   title = {Using a WCET Analysis Tool in Real-Time Systems Education},
   booktitle = {Fifth International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) Analysis},
   month = {July},
   year = {2005},
   editor = {Reinhard Willhelm},
   url = {http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/index.php?choice=publications&id=0975},
}

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