Hardware Scheduler Implementation based on Replicated Resource Architecture for Reconfigurable Systems

Abstract

Among many others aspects, technological improvements in the field of microelectronics and microprocessor architectures have radically changed modern systems integrated in real-time applications. The purpose of this study is to extend the hardware implementation of real-time operating system functions (HW- RTOS), thus improving the performance of the interrupt system and the hardware-handling block for events. The research presented in this paper regards the hardware implementation of the event selection mechanism and the introduction of specialized instruction to allow the automatic management of the events.