TY - CHAP A1 - Höfig, Kai T1 - FDTA–A Tool Chain for Failure-Dependent Timing Analysis T2 - Proc. of the 11th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis N2 - Embedded real-time systems are growing in complexity, which goes far beyond simplistic closedloop functionality. Current approaches of worst-case execution time (WCET) analysis are used to verify deadlines of such systems, especially when they are safety critical. These approaches calculate or measure WCET as a single value that is expected as an upper bound for a system's execution time. Overestimations are taken into account to make this upper bound a safe bound, but modern processor architectures with caches, multi-threading, and instruction pipelines often expand those overestimations for safe upper bounds into unrealistic areas. Some approaches try to overcome this problem by calculating multiple upper bounds and argue that each single upper bound will hold for a certain probability (probabilistic worst-case execution time). Even though some of them tackle the problem of obtaining reliable probabilistic values for such upper bounds, more effort is required. Therefore, we present in this paper how probabilities of safety analysis models can be combined with elements of system development models to calculate a probabilistic worst-case execution time. This approach can be applied to systems that use mechanisms belonging to the area of fault tolerance, since such mechanisms are usually quantified in safety analyses to certify the system as being highly reliable or safe. KW - FDTA-A KW - Failure-Dependent Timing Analysis KW - Tool chains Y1 - 2011 ER -