A Practical Study on WCET Estimation on Multicore Processors for Avionics Applications

On the early 2000's, avionics systems started to be employed as integrated software modules embedded in a same hardware, as an evolution of previous concept of having a same base hardware with several hardware cards, each one performing a dedicated task. This concept, defined as Integrated Modular Avionics (IMA), was standardized in (RTCA 2005) and brought a consistent improvement on avionics system design.