Extended Pattern-based Parallelization Approach for Hard Real-Time Systems and its Tool Support

Abstract

The transformation of sequential legacy code to parallel applications is hard, especially when timing requirements have to be met. There exists a systematic parallelization approach dealing with this topic. Based on practical experience, we extend it and present our modifications. Our extensions comprise an additional phase dealing with implementation details and another one for quality assurance. Its results may be used to further improve the parallel program. Moreover, we propose tool support which further facilitates the parallelization process.