Low-level support of peripheral devices is one of the most demanding activities in a real-time operating system. In fact, the rapid development of new interface boards causes a tr...
Tullio Facchinetti, Giorgio C. Buttazzo, Mauro Mar...
Operating systems were created to provide multiple tasks with access to scarce hardware resources like CPU, memory, or storage. Modern programmable hardware, however, may contain ...
Abstract. The real-time process algebra (RTPA) is a set of new mathematical notations for formally describing system architectures, and static and dynamic behaviors. It is recogniz...
—Unencrypted data appearing on the processor– memory bus can result in security violations, e.g., allowing attackers to gather keys to financial accounts and personal data. Al...
Computers are notoriously insecure, in part because application security policies do not map well onto traditional protection mechanisms such as Unix user accounts or hardware pag...
Nickolai Zeldovich, Hari Kannan, Michael Dalton, C...