| EPSRC Reference: |
GR/K79369/01 |
| Title: |
A CUSTOMIZABLE SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME APPLICATIONS |
| Principal Investigator: |
Warboys, Professor B |
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Computer Science |
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Victoria University of Manchester, The |
| Scheme: |
Standard Research (Pre-FEC) |
| Starts: |
01 June 1996 |
Ends: |
30 November 1998 |
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89,574
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The aim of this project is allow real-time systems to be developed without either the limitations of performance imposed by conventional operating systems, or the long development time required for native real-time systems. It will be carried out using application which typify time-constrained and real-time systems of commercial and industrial relevance. It will produce software which can be used, and customized, by real-time application programmers. It will be based upon a customizable system being developed for parallel languages and general, parallel, applications. All resource management policy is implemented at user-level and is determined by the application. Events, including interrupts and exceptions, may be handled by user-level and is determined by the application. Events including interrupts and exceptions, may be handled by user-level threads whose behaviour and scheduling are under the control of the application, allowing precise real-time control. A hardware-dependent, policy-free, layer of software provides an abstraction of the hardware to the user-level resource managers. This facilitate reliability, customizability and portability. The target applications are chosen to present soft real-time (a point-of-sales system) and hard real-time (a robot arm responding to time critical control instructions). These systems, taken together, present a full range of real-time problems and represent a challenge to implementation by a single system.
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