GPUs have been shown to cover the computing performance needs of autonomous driving
(AD) systems. However, since the GPUs used for AD build on designs for the mainstream …

Existing HW/SW platforms for safety-critical systems suffer from limited performance and/or
from lack of flexibility due to building on specific proprietary components. This jeopardizes …

In today's multiprocessor systems-on-a-chip, the shared memory subsystem is a known
source of temporal interference. The problem causes logically independent cores to affect …

Recent years have witnessed the growth of the adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPSs)
in many sectors, such as automotive, aerospace, civil infrastructures, and healthcare …

The complexity of vehicle applications and the need of reducing the number of processing
units are giving great audience to system virtualization. Virtualized architectures with diverse …

Following the same trend of consumer electronics, safety-critical industries are starting to
adopt Over-The-Air Software Updates (OTASU) on their embedded systems. The motivation …

The focus of this manuscript is related to the main safety issues regarding a mixed criticality
system running multiple concurrent tasks. Our concerns are related to the guarantee of …

Performance Monitoring Units (PMUs) are at the heart of most-advanced timing analysis
techniques to control and bound the impact of contention in Commercial Off-The-Shelf …

The computing capacity demanded by embedded systems is on the rise as software
implements more functionalities, ranging from best-effort entertainment functions to …

(English) In the last decade performance needs in Critical Real-Time Embedded Systems
(CRTES) domains like automotive, avionics, railway or space have been steadily on the rise …