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Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability
September/October 2010 (vol. 30 no. 5)
pp. 66-75
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Theo Ungerer, Francisco Cazorla, Pascal Sainrat, Guillem Bernat, Zlatko Petrov, Christine Rochange, Eduardo Quiñones, Mike Gerdes, Marco Paolieri, Julian Wolf, Hugues Casse, Sascha Uhrig, Irakli Guliashvili, Michael Houston, Floria Kluge, Stefan Metzlaff, Jorg Mische, "Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability," IEEE Micro, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 66-75, September/October, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MM.2010.78,
author = {Theo Ungerer and Francisco Cazorla and Pascal Sainrat and Guillem Bernat and Zlatko Petrov and Christine Rochange and Eduardo Quiñones and Mike Gerdes and Marco Paolieri and Julian Wolf and Hugues Casse and Sascha Uhrig and Irakli Guliashvili and Michael Houston and Floria Kluge and Stefan Metzlaff and Jorg Mische},
title = {Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability},
journal ={IEEE Micro},
volume = {30},
number = {5},
issn = {0272-1732},
year = {2010},
pages = {66-75},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MM.2010.78},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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JO - IEEE Micro
TI - Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability
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A1 - Pascal Sainrat,
A1 - Guillem Bernat,
A1 - Zlatko Petrov,
A1 - Christine Rochange,
A1 - Eduardo Quiñones,
A1 - Mike Gerdes,
A1 - Marco Paolieri,
A1 - Julian Wolf,
A1 - Hugues Casse,
A1 - Sascha Uhrig,
A1 - Irakli Guliashvili,
A1 - Michael Houston,
A1 - Floria Kluge,
A1 - Stefan Metzlaff,
A1 - Jorg Mische,
PY - 2010
KW - hardware
KW - software
KW - embedded systems
KW - multicore
KW - real-time
KW - WCET analysis
KW - industrial case study
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Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg, Augsburg
Francisco Cazorla, Barcelona SuperComputing Center , barcelona
Pascal Sainrat, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Guillem Bernat, Rapita Systems L.t.d, York
Zlatko Petrov, Honeywell International s.r.o., Brno
Christine Rochange, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Eduardo Quiñones, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, barcelona
Mike Gerdes, University of Augsburg, Augsburg
Marco Paolieri, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona
Julian Wolf, University of Augsburg, Augsburg
Hugues Casse, Universite´ Paul Sabatier de Toulouse
Sascha Uhrig, University of Augsburg
Irakli Guliashvili, University of Augsburg
Michael Houston, Rapita Systems
Floria Kluge, University of Augsburg
Stefan Metzlaff, University of Augsburg
Jorg Mische, University of Augsburg

The Merasa project aims to achieve a breakthrough in hardware design, hard real-time support in system software, and worst-case execution time analysis tools for embedded multicore processors. The project focuses on developing multicore processor designs for hard real-time embedded systems and techniques to guarantee the analyzability and timing predictability of every feature provided by the processor.

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Index Terms:
hardware, software, embedded systems, multicore, real-time, WCET analysis, industrial case study
Citation:
Theo Ungerer, Francisco Cazorla, Pascal Sainrat, Guillem Bernat, Zlatko Petrov, Christine Rochange, Eduardo Quiñones, Mike Gerdes, Marco Paolieri, Julian Wolf, Hugues Casse, Sascha Uhrig, Irakli Guliashvili, Michael Houston, Floria Kluge, Stefan Metzlaff, Jorg Mische, "Merasa: Multicore Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analyzability," IEEE Micro, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 66-75, Sept.-Oct. 2010, doi:10.1109/MM.2010.78
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