Title: Impact of software architecture on execution time: a power window TACLeBench case study

Authors: Haoxuan Li; Paul De Meulenaere; Siegfried Mercelis; Peter Hellinckx

Addresses: University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Engineering, Flanders Make - CoSys-Lab, imec - IDLab Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium ' University of Antwerp - Faculty of Applied Engineering, Flanders Make - CoSys-Lab, Groenenborgerlaan 171, 2020 Antwerp, Belgium ' University of Antwerp - imec, IDLab - Faculty of Applied Engineering, Sint-Pietersvliet 7, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium ' University of Antwerp - imec, IDLab - Faculty of Applied Engineering, Sint-Pietersvliet 7, 2000, Antwerp, Belgium

Abstract: Timing analysis is used to extract the timing properties of a system. Various timing analysis techniques and tools have been developed over the past decades. However, changes in hardware platform and software architecture introduced new challenges in timing analysis techniques. In our research, we aim to develop a hybrid approach to provide safe and precise timing analysis results. In this approach, we will divide the original code into smaller code blocks, and then construct a timing model based on the information acquired by measuring the execution time of every individual block. This process can introduce changes in the software architecture. In this paper, we use a multi-component benchmark to investigate the impact of software architecture on the timing behaviour of a system.

Keywords: WCET; timing analysis; hybrid timing analysis; power window; embedded systems; TACLEBench; COBRA block generator.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2019.098216

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing, 2019 Vol.10 No.2, pp.132 - 140

Received: 26 Jan 2017
Accepted: 21 Sep 2017
Published online: 06 Mar 2019 *

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