Using reconfigurable multi-core architectures for safety-critical embedded systems

Tom Guillaumet (1) , Aayush Sharma (1) , Eric Feron (1) , Madhava Krishna , Ranjani Narayan , Philippe Baufreton (2) , Francois Neumann (2) , Emmanuel Grolleau (3)

1 School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
2 SAFRAN Electronics & Defense
3 LIAS - Laboratoire d'Informatique et d'Automatique pour les Systèmes

With the onset of multi- and many-core chips, the single-core market is closing down. Those chips constitute a new challenge for aerospace and safety-critical industries in general. Little is known about the certification of software running on these systems. There is therefore a strong need for developing software architectures based on multi-core architectures, yet compliant with safety-criticality constraints. This paper presents a reconfigurable multi-core architecture and the safety-criticality constraints for airborne systems. The last section uses the current certification guidance to explain how the architecture can satisfy these constraints even with dynamic features activated.

Domains: Computer Science [cs]

Tom Guillaumet, Aayush Sharma, Eric Feron, Madhava Krishna, Ranjani Narayan, et al.. Using reconfigurable multi-core architectures for safety-critical embedded systems. 2016 IEEE/AIAA 35th Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC), Sep 2016, Sacramento, United States. pp.1-6, ⟨10.1109/DASC.2016.7777978⟩. ⟨hal-04026316⟩