Abstract: “The use of multicore processors in general-purpose real-time embedded systems has experienced a huge increase in the recent years. Unfortunately, critical applications are not benefiting from this type of processors as one could expect. The major obstacle is that we may not predict and provide any guarantee on real-time properties of software running on such platforms. The shared memory bus is among the most critical resources, which severely degrades the timing predictability of multicore software due to the access contention between cores. To counteract this problem, we present in this paper a new approach that supports mixed-criticality workload execution in a multicore processor-based embedded system. It allows any number of cores to run less-critical tasks concurrently with the critical core, which is running the critical task. The approach is based on the use of a dedicated Deadline Enforcement Checker (DEC) implemented in hardware, which allows the execution of any number of cor”

Keywords: Multicore Processor, Critical Application, HighPerformance Embedded System, Critical Task Schedulability, Deadline Enforcement Checker (DEC).