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Simplifying Embedded System Development through Whole-Program Compilers

McCartney, William P.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1305319887

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2011, Doctor of Engineering, Cleveland State University, Fenn College of Engineering.
As embedded systems embrace ever more complicated microcontrollers, they present both new capability and new complexity. To simplify their development, some lessons of computer application development will translate with additional work. This thesis offers one such translation. It shows how whole-program compilers - those that broadly analyze a program's entire source code - can achieve performance gains and remove faults in embedded system applications. In so doing, this yields a novel stackless threading system named UnStacked C. UnStacked C enables cooperative multithreading without the risk of stack overflows in embedded system applications. We also propose a novel preemption system called Lazy Preemption. Unstacked C with Lazy Preemption enables stackless preemptive multithreading in embedded systems. These remove the possibility of thread stack overflows, but also significantly reduces the memory required for multithreading in embedded systems.
Nigamanth Sridhar, PhD (Committee Chair)
Yongjian Fu, PhD (Committee Member)
Janche Sang, PhD (Committee Member)
Dan Simon, PhD (Committee Member)
Wenbing Zhao, PhD (Committee Member)
153 p.
Computer Engineering; Computer Science; Electrical Engineering; Engineering
Stackless; Multithreading; Embedded Systems; Firmware; Compilers; C

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  • McCartney, W. P. (2011). Simplifying Embedded System Development through Whole-Program Compilers [Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1305319887

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • McCartney, William. Simplifying Embedded System Development through Whole-Program Compilers. 2011. Cleveland State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1305319887.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • McCartney, William. "Simplifying Embedded System Development through Whole-Program Compilers." Doctoral dissertation, Cleveland State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1305319887

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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