We review state-space control models in order to identify timing properties that can favour flexible scheduling of real-time control tasks. First, from the state-space model of a ...
UML is the standard visual object modeling language which may be very useful as a system design communication language. However, UML as a real-time modeling language has limitatio...
—Hardware-managed caches introduce large amounts of timing variability, complicating real-time system design. One alternative is a memory system with scratchpad memories which im...
Abstract— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
Previous ultra-dependable real-time computing architectures have been specialised to meet the requirements of a particular application domain. Over the last two years, a consortiu...