Towards a fixed priority scheduler for an aircraft application

Author

Bate, Lain ; Burns, Alan ; McDermid, John ; Vickers, Andy

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., York Univ., UK

fYear

1996

fDate

12-14 Jun 1996

Firstpage

34

Lastpage

39

Abstract

This paper describes process improvement work that has been performed in the Rolls-Royce Systems and Software Engineering University Technology Centre based at York University. The domain of interest is hard real-time safety critical systems certified to the avionics equipment standard D0178B. The use of fixed priority scheduling as a mechanism for controlling the run-time behaviour of software has been investigated, and has been shown to lead to a more efficient and effective system, at lower cost and lower risk

Keywords

aerospace computing; aerospace control; aircraft instrumentation; fault tolerant computing; real-time systems; safety-critical software; software engineering; aircraft application; avionics equipment standard D0178B; fixed priority scheduler; hard real-time safety critical systems; Aircraft; Certification; Monitoring; Prototypes; Real time systems; Software performance; Software testing; System testing; Time measurement; Timing jitter;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real-Time Systems, 1996., Proceedings of the Eighth Euromicro Workshop on

Conference_Location

L´Aquila

ISSN

1068-3070

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7496-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EMWRTS.1996.557786

Filename

557786