Applications

The MERASA2 project is focused on the development of a multi-core processor for hard real-time embedded systems. Hand in hand with the investigation of analyzable high-performance features and interconnects of embedded multi-core architectures, there is a need for timing analysis tech-niques and tools to guarantee the analyzability and predictability of the features provided by the processor. Main Objectives at University of Augsburg within the MERASA project are the defini-tion and exploration of appropriate hardware architecture for a MERASA single-core and multi-core processor. Under the scope of hard real-time execution a SystemC simulator is implemented and later transformed to VHDL for an FPGA board. The second basic part is the development of an adequate System Software as an abstraction layer between application software and embedded hardware to provides basic functions of a real-time operating system