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Architecture-Parametric Timing Analysis
Jan Reineke, Johannes Doerfert

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Jan Reineke, Johannes Doerfert. "Architecture-Parametric Timing Analysis". Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), Richard West (ed.), IEEE, 189--200, April, 2014.

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Platforms are families of microarchitectures that implement the same instruction set architecture but that differ in architectural parameters, such as frequency, memory latencies, or memory sizes. The choice of these parameters influences execution time, implementation cost, and energy consumption. In this paper, we introduce the first general framework for architecture-parametric timing analysis (APTA). APTA computes an expression that bounds the worst-case execution time (WCET) of a program in terms of architectural parameters. This enables to configure a platform, at design or even at run time, in a way that is guaranteed to meet all deadlines, while minimizing implementation cost and/or energy consumption. We demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by implementing APTA for a precision-timed (PRET) platform and by evaluating our implementation on M\"alardalen benchmarks.

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    Jan Reineke, Johannes Doerfert.
    "Architecture-Parametric Timing Analysis".
    Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded
    Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), Richard West
    (ed.), IEEE, 189--200, April, 2014.
  • BibTeX
    @inproceedings{ReinekeDoerfert14_ArchitectureParametricTimingAnalysis,
        author = {Jan Reineke and Johannes Doerfert},
        title = {Architecture-Parametric Timing Analysis},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th IEEE Real-Time and
                  Embedded Technology and Application Symposium
                  (RTAS)},
        editor = {Richard West},
        organization = {IEEE},
        pages = {189--200},
        month = {April},
        year = {2014},
        abstract = {Platforms are families of microarchitectures that
                  implement the same instruction set architecture
                  but that differ in architectural parameters, such
                  as frequency, memory latencies, or memory sizes.
                  The choice of these parameters influences
                  execution time, implementation cost, and energy
                  consumption. In this paper, we introduce the first
                  general framework for architecture-parametric
                  timing analysis (APTA). APTA computes an
                  expression that bounds the worst-case execution
                  time (WCET) of a program in terms of architectural
                  parameters. This enables to configure a platform,
                  at design or even at run time, in a way that is
                  guaranteed to meet all deadlines, while minimizing
                  implementation cost and/or energy consumption. We
                  demonstrate the feasibility of our approach by
                  implementing APTA for a precision-timed (PRET)
                  platform and by evaluating our implementation on
                  M\"alardalen benchmarks.},
        URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1070.html}
    }
    

Posted by Jan Reineke on 25 Apr 2014.
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