Building computers that can be used to design embedded real-time systems is the subject of this title. Real-time embedded software requires increasingly higher performances. The authors therefore consider processors that implement advanced mechanisms such as pipelining, out-of-order execution, branch prediction, cache memories, multi-threading, multicorearchitectures, etc. The authors of this book investigate the timepredictability of such schemes.

Christine Rochange is Professor at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. She is conducting research activities in the TRACES group at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT lab). Her current research interests include the analysis of worst-case execution times of sequential and parallel real-time applications.

Sascha Uhrig is a Junior Professor leading the Microcontroller Systems group at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany. His research interests concern processor and computer architecture with the focus on time-predictable architectures. He is working on multithreaded as well as multicore processors, including memory hierarchies.

Pascal Sainrat is Professor at Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France. He is the leader of the TRACES group at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT lab) and his current research interests concern the design of time-predictable architectures.