Dr Nick Merriam will be at ESE-Kongress 2009, in Sindelfingen, Germany on 8th-10th December. At ESE-Kongress, Nick will be presenting a paper entitled "Managing Software Timing Behavior".
This paper reviews practical techniques to obtain accurate timing measurements, and shows how to use them to diagnose timing issues as well as to provide evidence of timing correctness. We explain how an emphasis on worst-case behavior and worst-case execution times is vital in building and testing reliable real-time embedded systems.