Genetic mapping of hard real-time applications onto NoC-based MPSoCs — A first approach

Despite its significance to embedded systems industry and research communities, little research has been done on providing guarantees for hard real-time applications running over multicore processors based on wormhole Networks-on-Chip (NoCs). This work takes advantage of recent work on schedulability analysis that is tailored to such platforms, and uses it as a ranking function in a genetic algorithm that is able to evolve task mappings which allow all tasks and communication flows to meet their deadlines in all possible scenarios.