Often, component-based real-time systems are modeled with trigger and data chains. The end-to-end timing requirements on trigger chains are different from those on data chains. For a trigger chain, the interest lies in the calculation of holistic response time and its comparison with end-to-end deadline. Whereas, the schedulability of a data chain requires a comparison between its end-to-end latencies and corresponding deadlines. We discuss the problem of translating end-to-end timing requirements unambiguously from component-based real-time systems into timing analysis models which are required as input by the analysis tools. We also provide preliminary guidelines for such translations in the existing industrial tool suite.
ACM SIGBED Review: Special Issue on the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 12), ISSN: 1551-3688
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