Compilation for Real-Time Systems a Decade After Predator.

On the occasion of Peter Marwedel’s 70th anniversary, this article provides a survey over a decade of research in the field of compiler techniques for real-time systems. Ten years ago, during the EU-funded project Predator, it was him who led the work package on compilers. As will be shown in this survey, the work done in this domain had such a fundamental character that it laid the ground for follow-up research that lasts since the end of Predator until today. This article particularly emphasizes results achieved in the challenging areas of scheduling-aware optimization of multi-task systems, of analysis and optimization of Multi-Processor Systems on Chip, and of predictable multi-objective optimizations.