Bill Cronk, DDC-I

• Slack scheduling brings 100% resource utilization to safety-critical systems

  Bill Cronk DDC-I

  Safety-critical RTOSs often utilize time partitioning so that adequate resources are available for time-critical tasks. This can be a very inexact practice, however, when tasks take only a fraction of the reserved CPU time. Slack scheduling is now coming to the rescue, though, offering a more efficient alternative to traditional time-partitioned scheduling.