Final System-Level Software for the MERASA Processor

The MERASA project develops hard real-time capable multi-core processor designs with special focus on analysability. The dedicated system software provides basic functionalities of a real-time operating system and enables the execution of application software on the processor. This report summarises the final MERASA system-level software developed for the MERASA SystemC Simulator and FPGA prototype. We present requirements for a hard real-time capable operating system for embedded multi-cores and the transfer to the implemented MERASA processor prototype showing details on thread management, dynamic memory management and resource management