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Currently, we already support FreeRTOS [6] in ControlPULP as real-time operating system
 
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* 20% Evaluation
 
* 20% Evaluation
 
  
 
== Prerequisites ==
 
== Prerequisites ==

Revision as of 15:51, 5 August 2022


Overview

Status: Available

Introduction

Real-time systems are systems that need to guarantee certain time constraints such as for example responding within a certain time frame. This means that computations not only need to be logically correct but also the physical instant of the result computation has to meet a particular timing constraint.

Regular general-purpose operating systems such as Linux are often not designed to ensure that real-time constraints are respected.

To address that problem several so called real-time operating systems have been developed in the last decades and used in several fields where the design of safety-critical systems matters (automotive and aerospace above all). Among these, Zephyr OS [1] is a promising scalable real-time operating system with small memory footprint designed for resource-constrained systems following modern security practices. It supports a lot of architectures such as ARM (Cortex series), MIPS, SPARC, AMD64, and RISC-V. The development model is very similar to the linux kernel: The kernel sources, drivers and any bootstrapping code are part of the same project giving a nice out-of-the-box experience.

ControlPULP is an open-source HW/SW platform based on PULP [2], a parallel embedded MCU implementing the RISC-V ISA. ControlPULP has been developed to serve as an integrated power controller for HPC processors [3]. In this scenario, a timely response from multiple MIMO interfaces is required to be able to track and set the operating point of the controlled system in a workload-aware manner.

Currently, we already support FreeRTOS [6] in ControlPULP as real-time operating system

Project

The goal of this project is to port Zephyr OS to ControlPULP:

  • Review and study ControlPULP SystemVerilog code [4]
  • (Optional) If you prefer to develop on an FPGA set up the ControlPULP FPGA flow
  • Review and study ZephyrOS. You can have a look how previous ports were done [5]
  • Port the kernel and interrupt drivers to support ControlPULP
  • Add drivers for various peripherals (UART, SPI, I2C, ...)
  • Do various comparisons against FreeRTOS

Character

  • 15% Literature / architecture review
  • 65% Software layer
  • 20% Evaluation

Prerequisites

  • Experience with digital design in SystemVerilog as taught in VLSI I
  • Basic knowledge of operating systems
  • Knowledge of C programming language and unix tooling as from previous bachelor/master courses

References

[1] https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

[2] https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulp

[3] ControlPULP: A RISC-V Power Controller for HPC Processors with Parallel Control-Law Computation Acceleration

[4] https://iis-git.ee.ethz.ch/pms/control-pulp/

[5] https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/blob/main/boards/riscv/rv32m1_vega/doc/index.rst

[6] https://github.com/pulp-platform/pulp-freertos