@InProceedings{Athaide08,
  title =        "{S}hared-{C}lock {M}ethodology for {T}ime-{T}riggered {M}ulti-{C}ores",
  author=        "Athaide,  Keith F. and Pont,  Michael J. and Ayavoo,  Devaraj",
  editor=        "Welch, Peter H. and Stepney,  S. and Polack,  F.A.C and Barnes,  Frederick R. M. and McEwan,  Alistair A. and Stiles,  G. S. and Broenink,  Jan F. and Sampson,  Adam T.",
  pages =        "149--162",
  booktitle=     "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2008",
  isbn=          "978-1-58603-907-3",
  year=          "2008",
  month=         "sep",
  abstract=      "The co-operative design methodology has significant
     advantages when
used in safety-related systems. Coupled with
     the time-triggered
architecture, the methodology can result
     in robust and predictable
systems. Nevertheless, use of a
     co-operative design methodology may
not always be
     appropriate especially when the system possesses
     tight
resource and cost constraints. Under relaxed
     constraints, it might be
possible to maintain a co-operative
     design by introducing additional
software processing cores
     to the same chip. The resultant multi-core
microcontroller
     then requires suitable design methodologies to
ensure that
     the advantages of time-triggered co-operative design
     are
maintained as far as possible. This paper explores the
     application of
a time-triggered distributed-systems
     protocol, called
     \textlessq\textgreatershared-clock\textless/q\textgreater,
on
     an eight-core microcontroller. The cores are connected in
     a
mesh topology with no hardware broadcast capabilities and
     three
implementations of the shared-clock protocol are
     examined. The
custom multi-core system and the network
     interfaces used for
the study are also described. The
     network interfaces share higher
level serialising logic
     amongst channels, resulting in low hardware
overhead when
     increasing the number of channels."
}