A timed-automata approach for critical path detection in a soft real-time application

In this paper, we report preliminary ideas from our project called “Time Performance Improvement With Parallel Processing Systems” (TIPS). In the TIPS project, we plan to take advantage of multi-core platforms for performance improvement by parallelizing a complex soft real-time application. In order to increase the timing performance, one needs to adapt the optimizations on the critical execution paths of an application which are both significantly time consuming and important from user requirements' perspective. In this work, we present an approach how to detect critical paths in a target application