Cy-Clone: An approach to the engineering of resource adequate cyclic real-time systems

摘要

The cyclicparadigmis used quite widely in real-time system applications, and is the most predominant approach taken for hard real-time systems. At the same time, there has been an absence of research and development related to solving existing problems as well as in finding new avenues for generalizing the applicability of the cyclic paradigm. For example, there has been very little research and development aimed at exploiting the cyclic paradigm in parallel processing environments. In this paper, we considerCy-Clone(aCloneof theCyclic paradigm) which provides a holistic approach to developing deterministic real-time systems according to a variant of the cyclic paradigm for both single processor and multiprocessor environments. The approach is especially applicable in time and safety critical systems.