Success for MERASA multi-core project

York, UK, 17th January 2011 The MERASA (Multi-Core Execution of Hard Real-Time Applications Supporting Analysability) project involving Rapita Systems finished in October 2010. Now you can find out more thanks to a useful summary of the project in issue 25 of the HiPEAC info newsletter. MERASA was set up in 2007 to improve the performance of safety-critical applications in the avionics, space, automotive and automation fields. The project called on the combined specialist skills of partners across Europe to achieve a breakthrough in the use of multi-core processors with hard real-time software and WCET analysis tools. Thanks to MERASA the requirements for high-performance can now be combined with time predictable execution of single or multiple threads on a multi-core processor. This significant advance in the use of multicores offers the potential for increased safety and improved control of emissions into the environment alongside lower costs. Rapita’s WCET RapiTime tool was one of the tools used to test the MERASA multi-core architecture. Issue 25 of HiPEAC info will soon be available in digital form at www.hipeac.net A complete article on the MERASA project is also available. See IEEE Micro September/October 2010 (vol. 30 no. 5). MERASA was a three-year EC FP-7 project which received €2.1m in funding support from the European Union. For more information visit www.merasa.org