Download or read book Design and Analysis of Time-predictable Single-core and Multi-core Processors written by Jun Yan and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time predictability is one of the most important design considerations for real-time systems. In this dissertation, time predictability of the instruction cache is studied on both single core processors and multi-core processors. As the first step toward time-predictable multi-core computing, this dissertation presents novel approaches to bounding the worst-case performance for threads running on multi-core processors with shared L2 instruction caches. We propose an approach to leverage the prioritized shared L2 caches to improve time predictability for real-time threads running on multi-core processors. The prioritized shared L2 caches give higher priority to real-time threads while allowing low-priority threads to use shared L2 cache space that is available.