Project Details

Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms

Project Period: 1. 4. 2010 - 31. 3. 2013

Project Type: grant

Code: 7H10013, 100202

Agency: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports Czech Republic

Program: Společné technologické iniciativy

Czech title
Národní dofinancování projektu: Reduced Certification Costs Using Trusted Multi-core Platforms
Type
grant
Keywords

multi-core platforms, certification

Abstract

The RECOMP (Reduced certification cost for trusted multi-core platforms) research project
will establish methods, tools and platforms for enabling cost-efficient certification and re-certification
of safety-critical systems and mixed-criticality systems, i.e. systems containing safety-critical and nonsafety-
critical components.
RECOMP recognizes the fact that the increasing processing power of embedded systems is mainly
provided by increasing the number of processing cores. The increased numbers of cores is commonly
regarded as a design challenge in the safety-critical area, as there are no established approaches to
achieve certification.
At the same time there is an increased need for flexibility in the products in the safety-critical market.
This need for flexibility puts new requirements on the customization and the upgradability of both the
non-safety and safety-critical critical part. The difficulty with this is the large cost in both effort and
money of the re-certification of the modified software, which means that companies cannot fully
leverage the advantages of modular software system.
RECOMP will provide reference designs and platform architectures together with the required design
methods and tools for achieving cost-effective certification and re-certification of mixed-criticality,
component based, multi-core systems. The aim of RECOMP is to define a European standard reference
technology for mixed-criticality multi-core systems supported by the European tool vendors
participating in RECOMP.
The RECOMP project will bring clear benefits in terms of cross-domain implementations of mixedcriticality
systems in all domains addressed by project participants: automotive systems, aerospace
systems, industrial control systems, lifts and transportation systems.
RECOMP will thus provide solutions that will allow European industry to increase its market share in
the growing market of mixed-criticality systems.

Team members
Zemčík Pavel, prof. Dr. Ing. (UPGM FIT VUT) , research leader
Smrž Pavel, doc. RNDr., Ph.D. (UPGM FIT VUT) , team leader
Publications

2013

  • STRAKA Martin, KAŠTIL Jan, KOTÁSEK Zdeněk and MIČULKA Lukáš. Fault Tolerant System Design and SEU Injection based Testing. Microprocessors and Microsystems, vol. 2013, no. 37, pp. 155-173. ISSN 0141-9331. Detail
  • STRNADEL Josef. Load-Adaptive Monitor-Driven Hardware for Preventing Embedded Real-Time Systems from Overloads Caused by Excessive Interrupt Rates. In: Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 0302-9743, Vol. 7767, vol. 2013. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2013, pp. 98-109. ISBN 978-3-642-36423-5. ISSN 0302-9743. Detail
  • STRNADEL Josef. On Design of Priority-Driven Load-Adaptive Monitoring-Based Hardware for Managing Interrupts in Embedded Event-Triggered Real-Time Systems. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 16th International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems. Brno: IEEE Computer Society, 2013, pp. 24-29. ISBN 978-1-4673-6133-0. Detail

2012

  • STRAKA Martin, KAŠTIL Jan and KOTÁSEK Zdeněk. Methodology for Reliability Analysis of FPGA-based Fault Tolerant Systems. In: CSE'2012 International Scientific Conference on Computer Science and Engineering. Košice: The University of Technology Košice, 2012, pp. 146-153. ISBN 978-80-8143-049-7. Detail
  • STRNADEL Josef. Monitoring-Driven HW/SW Interrupt Overload Prevention for Embedded Real-Time Systems. In: Proceedings of the 15th International IEEE Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems (DDECS). Tallin: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 121-126. ISBN 978-1-4673-1188-5. Detail
  • STRAKA Martin, MIČULKA Lukáš, KAŠTIL Jan and KOTÁSEK Zdeněk. Test Platform for Fault Tolerant Systems Design Qualities Verification. In: 15th IEEE International Symposium on Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems. Tallin: IEEE Computer Society, 2012, pp. 336-341. ISBN 978-1-4673-1185-4. Detail

2011

  • STRNADEL Josef. Concept of Adaptive Embedded HW/SW Architecture for Dynamic Prevention from Interrupt Overloads. In: Proceedings of the Work in Progress Session held in connection with SEAA 2011, the 37th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications and DSD 2011, the 14th EUROMICRO Conference on Digital System Design. Oulu: Johannes Kepler University Linz, 2011, pp. 21-22. ISBN 978-3-902457-30-1. Detail
  • STRNADEL Josef. Proposal of Flexible Monitoring-Driven HW/SW Interrupt Management for Embedded COTS-Based Event-Triggered Real-Time Systems. In: Proceedings of the Work-in-Progress Session of the 32nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. Vienna: Technical University Wien, 2011, pp. 29-32. Detail
Products

2013

  • Functional sample of stage servodrive, specimen, 2013
    Authors: Ševcovic Jiří, Zemčík Pavel, Korček Pavol, Fučík Otto Detail
  • intMAN: Priority-Driven Load-Adaptive Monitoring-Based Hardware for Managing Interrupts in Embedded Event-Triggered Real-Time Systems, prototype, 2013
    Authors: Strnadel Josef, Šimek Václav Detail
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