Caches in Embedded Systems improve average case performance, but they are a source of unpredictability, especially in the worst case software timing analysis with the consideration of data caches. This is a critical problem in real-time systems, where tight Worst Case Execution Time (WCET) is required for their schedulability analysis. Few works have studied data cache impacts on the WCET of programs, but only for programs with no input-dependent data accesses. To provide an efficient and accurate analysis for input-dependent data accesses, we develop classified cache architecture and a WCET...
Caches in Embedded Systems improve average case performance, but they are a source of unpredictability, especially in the worst case software timing a...
