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The importance of interprocess communication increases in recent embedded system designs. In particular this is true for distributed real-time systems, where mainly communication and synchronization cause violations of timing constraints. In this paper we present HarMonIC — a reconfigurable hardware monitoring system for the real-time observation of interprocess communication architectures. We will show that reconfigurability is essential for the use within a rapid prototyping environment like REPLICA. It will be demonstrated how HarMonIC can be used to significantly improve debugging, performance evaluation, and design space exploration of distributed real-time systems.
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Kirschbaum, A., Becker, J., Glesner, M. (1998). A reconfigurable hardware-monitor for communication analysis in distributed real-time systems. In: Rolim, J. (eds) Parallel and Distributed Processing. IPPS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1388. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-64359-1_674
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