Software Timing Workshop - Cambridge

"How long does my software take to run...and how can I reduce it?" are key issues for embedded engineers designing reliable systems. Understanding, verifying, and improving the timing performance of their real-time products gives successful companies a key competitive edge.

This tutorial will cover key aspects of on-target timing analysis : finding worst case execution times (WCET) and the worst case path, and why worst case optimization is not the same as average execution optimization. Practical issues of looking for the worst-case "hot-spots", identifying timing bugs and verifying optimisation opportunities will be explained with examples of worst case optimization.