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Non-Intrusive Hardware/Software Monitoring for Single- and Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems
Publication Type:
Report - MRTC
ISRN:
MDH-MRTC-34/2001-1-SE
Abstract
Run-time observability in hardware and software is a requirement for
testing and debugging any computer system. In real-time systems, and
in particular distributed such, it is however difficult to obtain
observability without altering the systems timing
behaviour. Monitoring techniques using passive hardware have been used
to extract software execution traces non-instrusively to the
system. However, the passive hardware techniques such as in-circuit
emulation, logic analysis, and oscilloscope, are not keeping pace with
todays system speeds (>200 MHz) and the highly integrated chips and
circuit-boards that obstructs hardware probing.
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In this paper, we present MAMon (Multiprocessor Application
Monitor), a non-intrusive hardware-based monitoring system that can
monitor logic-level and system-level events in single/multiprocessor
real-time systems. The MAMon system integrates a hardware Probe-Unit
on-chip (FPGA or ASIC) with a hardware-based Real-Time Kernel. The
Probe-Unit collects, time-stamps, and transfers all events on the
target, via a parallel cable, to a database on a host computer system.
A monitoring tool environment, where the event-database is a central
part, provides a structured framework for implementing debug and post
analysis facilities. The paper will also describe the hardware-based
Real-Time Kernel (RTU) and how MAMon connects to it in order to
extract the system/process-level information non-intrusively.
Bibtex
@techreport{El Shobaki225,
author = {Mohammed El Shobaki},
title = {Non-Intrusive Hardware/Software Monitoring for Single- and Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems},
number = {ISSN 1404-3041 ISRN MDH-MRTC-34/2001-1-SE},
month = {April},
year = {2001},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/225-}
}