ConstRaint and Application driven Framework for Tailoring Embedded Real-time Systems

Schéma pro vytváření vestavěných systémů pracujících v reálném čase v závislosti na možnostech a omezeních aplikace

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QoS, real-time, reliability, security, resource management, RTOS, middleware,
run-time environment, multiprocessor, many-core, MPSoC, platform, system-on-chip,
network-on-chip, SoC, NoC, IPXACT

ICT-based service and product innovation is curtailed by the growing vertical
chain of dependence on poorly interoperable proprietary technologies in Europe.
This issue was identified to have high impact on European innovation productivity
by the Report of the Independent Expert Group on R&D and Innovation, commonly
known as the Aho-report. The report demanded incentives for the convergence of
shared technologies and markets as a remedy. Actions creating standardized,
commercially exploitable yet widely accessible ecosystems in European priority
areas should be publicly supported. Real-time applications for heterogeneous,
networked, embedded many-core systems suffer from the lack of trusted pathways to
system realization and application deployment. Service and product development
efforts are high with many uncertainties discouraging such ventures. This project
brings to bear a holistically designed ecosystem from application to silicon. The
ecosystem is realized as a tightly integrated multi-vendor solution and tool
chain complementing existing standards. Feature-limited releases of reference
tools and platforms are made available under favourable licensing conditions to
support the evaluation and adoption of the results. Full-fledged versions are
retained for commercial exploitation and standardization of the overall ecosystem
is pursued. As direct effects of the project results 30% reduction of the total
cost of ownership, 50% shorter time-to-market, and 30% decrease of the number of
development assets are expected. Marketable lead applications driving ecosystem
development and benchmarking on the fields of industrial & intelligent transport
systems, video & image processing, and wireless communications are produced. Key
challenges include guaranteeing secure, reliable, and timely operation,
back-annotation based forward system governance, Tool-tool, tool-middleware, and
middleware-hardware exchange interfaces, and energy management with minimal
run-time overhead.

Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing., dr. h. c. (DCGM) – research leader
Chrápek David, Ing.
Juránek Roman, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Kajan Rudolf, Ing., Ph.D.
Klicnar Lukáš, Ing.
Musil Martin, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Musil Petr, Ing., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (DCGM)
Svoboda Pavel, Ing., Ph.D.