On Friday 27 May 2011 08:36:51 Luca Flaminio wrote:
> Good morning,
> Does anybody have experiences about the use of multi core CPUs for SIL-4
> certified safety-critical applications?  In particular I'm interested in
> the design of an OS (a custom Kernel) to achieve a safe tasks scheduling.
> Thanks a lot.

Nothing direct as yet, but I have attended a few talks on the subject. Some of  
the architectural choices will depend on the style of multi-core processor you 
are looking at. Start at:-

   <http://embedded-live.com/>   &
   <http://embedded-live.com/proceedings>

On the first page you should find a link to the programme of talks in the 
conference stream and the second link takes you to the papers and presentation 
slides for those talks.

Just to satisfy my curiosity, which multi-core are you looking at?

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