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Worst-case Execution Time Estimation of Legacy Vehicular Embedded Functions: An Industrial Case Study

Authors:

Marcus Ventovaara , Arman Hasanbegovic , Jimmie Wiklander , Saad Mubeen

Publication Type:

Conference/Workshop Paper

Venue:

21st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology

Publisher:

IEEE


Abstract

Estimation of Worst Case Execution Times (WCETs) of software functions in a real-time embedded system is fundamentally important in verifying its timing behaviour. Many existing WCET analysis tools and benchmarks, based on static WCET analysis methods, are limited to analyse software functions that conform to specific programming languages and libraries. As a consequence, these tools do not support WCET estimation of software functions in the legacy industrial systems that do not conform to those languages and libraries. This paper advocates to use a statistical method based on extreme value theory for estimating WCETs of software functions in such legacy industrial embedded systems. The main advantage of this method is that it is agnostic of the languages and libraries that are used to implement the software functions. In order to provide a proof of concept, the paper incorporates an industrial use case and applies the method to estimate WCETs of the software functions. The paper also presents an extensive comparative evaluation of the statistical method and an established static analysis tool for estimating WCETs that utilises high-level flow analysis.

Bibtex

@inproceedings{Ventovaara5675,
author = {Marcus Ventovaara and Arman Hasanbegovic and Jimmie Wiklander and Saad Mubeen},
title = {Worst-case Execution Time Estimation of Legacy Vehicular Embedded Functions: An Industrial Case Study},
month = {February},
year = {2020},
booktitle = {21st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology},
publisher = {IEEE},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/5675-}
}