A hybrid real-time component model for reconfigurable embedded systems

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A hybrid real-time component model for reconfigurable embedded systems

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Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

SESSION: Robotics: hardware, software, and embedded systems table of contents

Pages 1590-1596

Year of Publication: 2008

ISBN:978-1-59593-753-7

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Ning Gui	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Vincenzo De Florio	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Hong Sun	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Chris Blondia	University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Increasing capabilities of modern microcontrollers greatly increase their applicability to more and more unstable and complex environments. Dynamic reconfiguration provides a powerful mechanism to adapt in such environments. However, the implementation of dynamic reconfiguration is still challenging for embedded real-time control software systems.

In this paper, we present our real-time component framework which simultaneously supports hard real-time control and non-real-time adaption management while keeping the implementation as lean as possible. Our contribution is the hybrid component model in which one part is designed to support the real-time task while its non-real-time counterpart deals with component adaptation and management functions. A detailed analysis of the intra-component management interface was provided. XML was employed to describe and configure real-time task. We also designed an interface between real-time objects to achieve an inter-real-time task communication scheme based on global shared memory. In the non real-time domain, by mapping much of the management functions to the OSGi system service, we realized the components management service. Our framework can achieve complex component management while providing hard real-time assurance.

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	Ning Gui , Vincenzo De Flori , Hong Sun , Chris Blondia, A framework for adaptive real-time applications: the declarative real-time OSGi component model, Proceedings of the 7th workshop on Reflective and adaptive middleware, p.35-40, December 01-05, 2008, Leuven, Belgium
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