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11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of York
Investigating Average versus Worst-Case Timing Behavior of Data Caches and Data Scratchpads
<03>The paper shows that scratchpads are more amenable to worst-case execution time analysis
than conventional memory hierarchies (including caches).
This assertion provided a key idea within the successful FP7 project proposal T-CREST.
T-CREST is designing a time predictable architecture (CPU and memory hierarchy)
for hard real-time systems -- including scratchpads to ensure timing predictability. T-CREST
has extended the core ideas of the paper by showing the assertion holds for many core Network-on-Chip
architectures containing scratchpads. ECRTS is an international conference of high regard within the real-time systems community.