Combining instruction prefetching with partial cache locking to improve WCET in real-time systems.

Caches play an important role in embedded systems to bridge the performance gap between fast processor and slow memory. And prefetching mechanisms are proposed to further improve the cache performance. While in real-time systems, the application of caches complicates the Worst-Case Execution Time (W...

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Main Authors: Fan Ni, Xiang Long, Han Wan, Xiaopeng Gao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3873299?pdf=render