13th International Symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS'00)
Intervals in Software Execution Cost Analysis
Madrid, Spain
September 20-September 22
ISBN: 0-7695-0765-4
Timing and power consumption of embedded systems are state and input data dependent. Formal analysis of such dependencies leads to intervals rather than single values. These intervals depend on program properties, execution paths and states of processes, as well as on the target architecture. This paper presents an approach to analysis of process behavior using intervals. It improves previous work by exploiting program segments with single paths and by considering the execution context. The example of an ATM cell handler demonstrates significant improvements in analysis precision.