Prototype test insertion co-processor for agile development in multi-threaded embedded environments
Prototype test insertion co-processor for agile development in multi-threaded embedded environments
- Author(s): Dongcheng Deng ; M. Smith ; S. Islam ; J. Miller
- DOI: 10.1049/ic.2013.0038
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- Author(s): Dongcheng Deng ; M. Smith ; S. Islam ; J. Miller Source: 24th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2013), 2013 page ()
- Conference: 24th IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference (ISSC 2013)
- DOI: 10.1049/ic.2013.0038
- ISBN: 978-1-84919-754-0
- Location: Letterkenny, Ireland
- Conference date: 20-21 June 2013
- Format: PDF
Agile methodologies have been shown useful in constructing Enterprise applications with a reduced level of defects in the released product. Movement of Agile processes into the embedded world is hindered by the lack of suitable tool support. For example, software instrumented test insertion methods to detect race condition in multithreaded programs have the potential to increase code size beyond the limited embedded system memory, and degrade performance to an extent that would impair the real-time characteristics of the system. We propose a FPGA-based, hardware assisted, test insertion co-processor for embedded systems which introduces low additional system overhead and incurs minimal code size increase. In this preliminary study, we compare the ideal characteristics of a FPGA-based test insertion co-processor with our initial prototype and other proposed hardware assisted test insertion approaches. (8 pages)
Inspec keywords: multi-threading; field programmable gate arrays; embedded systems; coprocessors
Subjects: Logic and switching circuits; Microprocessor chips; Logic circuits; Microprocessors and microcomputers
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