SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability

Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is widely used in real time embedded system for computing resource management. It is commonly implemented as fundamental layer in software framework. However, RTOS inevitably causes extra overhead and latency to the system. One of the innovative approaches to improv...

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Main Authors: Ong, S.E., Lee, S.C., Ali, N.B.Z., Hussin, F.A.B.
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Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas
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Published: 2013
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spelling utp-eprints.325162022-03-29T14:04:36Z SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability Ong, S.E. Lee, S.C. Ali, N.B.Z. Hussin, F.A.B. Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is widely used in real time embedded system for computing resource management. It is commonly implemented as fundamental layer in software framework. However, RTOS inevitably causes extra overhead and latency to the system. One of the innovative approaches to improve the overhead and latency is to bring the RTOS out from software framework and implement as hardware component. For past decades, researches had proved that significant performance improvement can be achieved by implementing RTOS in hardware. However, these research outcomes failed to get wide acceptance in commercial products. We postulate that the lacking of interest in commercial community on hardware approached RTOS is due its high level of difficulty in adaptation process. Adapting hardware based RTOS in embedded system requires in depth knowledge on operating system as well as significant amount of manpower resources. This makes the hardware RTOS unpopular despite of the performance offered. This paper proposed a Simple and Effective hardware based Real-Time Operating System (SEOS) designed to provide high adaptability for ease of hardware RTOS adaptation, at the same time significantly improved the performance. Experimental result shows that SEOS has great performance advantages over software based RTOS. © 2013 IEEE. 2013 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84894124592&doi=10.1109%2fCANDAR.2013.110&partnerID=40&md5=aaea15dd9e2be87d634f5305392a5fdb Ong, S.E. and Lee, S.C. and Ali, N.B.Z. and Hussin, F.A.B. (2013) SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability. In: UNSPECIFIED. http://eprints.utp.edu.my/32516/
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description Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) is widely used in real time embedded system for computing resource management. It is commonly implemented as fundamental layer in software framework. However, RTOS inevitably causes extra overhead and latency to the system. One of the innovative approaches to improve the overhead and latency is to bring the RTOS out from software framework and implement as hardware component. For past decades, researches had proved that significant performance improvement can be achieved by implementing RTOS in hardware. However, these research outcomes failed to get wide acceptance in commercial products. We postulate that the lacking of interest in commercial community on hardware approached RTOS is due its high level of difficulty in adaptation process. Adapting hardware based RTOS in embedded system requires in depth knowledge on operating system as well as significant amount of manpower resources. This makes the hardware RTOS unpopular despite of the performance offered. This paper proposed a Simple and Effective hardware based Real-Time Operating System (SEOS) designed to provide high adaptability for ease of hardware RTOS adaptation, at the same time significantly improved the performance. Experimental result shows that SEOS has great performance advantages over software based RTOS. © 2013 IEEE.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Ong, S.E.
Lee, S.C.
Ali, N.B.Z.
Hussin, F.A.B.
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Lee, S.C.
Ali, N.B.Z.
Hussin, F.A.B.
SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
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title SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
title_short SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
title_full SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
title_fullStr SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
title_full_unstemmed SEOS: Hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
title_sort seos: hardware implementation of real-time operating system for adaptability
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