Conferences
Garcia-Esteban, Sergio, Alejandro Serrano-Cases, Jaume Abella, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Quasi Isolation QoS Setups to Control MPSoC Contention in Integrated Software Architectures." In 34th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2023.
Tagasovska, Natasa, Firat Ozdemir, and Axel Brando. "Retrospective Uncertainties for Deep Models using Vine Copulas." In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, pp. 7528-7539. PMLR, 2023.
Giesen, Jeremy, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "ASCOM: Affordable Sequence-aware COntention Modeling in Crossbar-based MPSoCs." In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 471-474. 2023.
Pujol, Roger, Mohamed Hassan, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Tracking Coherence-Related Contention Delays in Real-Time Multicore Systems." In Proceedings of the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 461–470. 2023.
Brando, Axel, Isabel Serra, Enrico Mezzetti, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Jaume Abella. "Standardizing the Probabilistic Sources of Uncertainty for the sake of Safety Deep Learning." In SafeAI 2023 The AAAI's Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Safety, 2023.
Barrera, Javier, Leonidas Kosmidis, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Contention Tracking in GPU Last-Level Cache." In Proceedings of the 40th International Conference On Computer Design (ICCD 2023), pp. 76-79. IEEE, 2022.
Brando, Axel, Isabel Serra, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J.Cazorla. "Using Quantile Regression in Neural Networks for Contention Prediction in Multicore Processors." In 34th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2022.
Vilardell, Sergi, Isabel Serra, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Joan del Castillo. "Using Markov’s Inequality with Power-Of-k Function for Probabilistic WCET Estimation." In 34th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2022. (Best Paper Award).
Asifuzzaman, Kazi, Mohamed Abuelala, Mohamed Hassan, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Demystifying the Characteristics of High Bandwidth Memory for Real-Time Systems." In 2021 IEEE/ACM International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD) , pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2021.
Giesen, Jeremy, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "PRL: Standardizing Performance Monitoring Library for High-Integrity Real-Time Systems." In 2021 IEEE 39th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 344-348. IEEE, 2021.
Alcon, Miguel, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Enabling Unit Testing of Already-Integrated AI Software Systems: The Case of Apollo for Autonomous Driving." In 2021 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), pp. 426-433. IEEE, 2021.
Serrano-Cases, Alejandro, Juan M. Reina, Jaume Abella, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco J. Cazorla . "Leveraging hardware QoS to control contention in the Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC." In 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2021.
Vilardell, Sergi, Isabel Serra, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "MUCH: exploiting pairwise hardware event monitor correlations for improved timing analysis of complex MPSoCs." In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC). SAC '21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 511–520.
Pujol, Roger, Hamid Tabani, Mohamed Hassan, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Empirical Evidence for MPSoCs in Critical Systems: The Case of NXP’s T2080 Cache Coherence." In Design, Automation Test in Europe Conference (DATE), Feb 2021.
Calderón, Alejandro J., Leonidas Kosmidis, Carlos F. Nicolás, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Peio Onaindia. "GMAI: Understanding and Exploiting the Internals of GPU Resource Allocation in Critical Systems." In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS) 19, no. 5 (2020): 1-23.
Palomo, Xavier, Sylvain Girbal, Jaume Abella Ferrer, Laurent Rioux, Mikel Fernández, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco Javier Cazorla Almeida. "Tracing Hardware Monitors in the GR712RC Multicore Platform: Challenges and Lessons Learnt from a Space Case Study." In 32nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), Modena, Italy. July 2020.
Kosmidis, Leonidas, Iván Rodriguez, Álvaro Jover, Sergi Alcaide, Jérôme Lachaize, Jaume Abella, Olivier Notebaert, Francisco J. Cazorla, and David Steenari. "GPU4S: Embedded GPUs in space-Latest project updates." In Microprocessors and Microsystems 77 (2020): 103143.
Tabani, Hamid, Roger Pujol, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "A Cross-Layer Review of Deep Learning Frameworks to Ease Their Optimization and Reuse." In Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2020.
Alcon, Miguel, Hamid Tabani, Leonidas Kosmidis, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Timing of Autonomous Driving Software: Problem Analysis and Prospects for Future Solutions." In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE Real-time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), 2020.
Giesen, Jeremy, Pedro Benedicte, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Modeling Contention Interference in Crossbar-based Systems via Sequence-Aware Pairing (SeAP)." In 2020 IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 253-266. IEEE, 2020.
Barrera, Javier, Leonidas Kosmidis, Hamid Tabani, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, Mikel Fernandez, Guillem Bernat, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "On the reliability of hardware event monitors in MPSoCs for critical domains." In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 580-589. 2020.
Tabani, Hamid, Matteo Fusi, Leonidas Kosmidis, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "IntPred: flexible, fast, and accurate object detection for autonomous driving systems." In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 564-571. 2020.
Vilardell, Sergi, Isabel Serra, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, Joan Del Castillo, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "CleanET: enabling timing validation for complex automotive systems." In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 554-563. 2020.
Rodriguez, Iván, Leonidas Kosmidis, Olivier Notebaert, Francisco J. Cazorla, and David Steenari. "An On-board Algorithm Implementation on an Embedded GPU: A Space Case Study." In 2020 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 1718-1719. IEEE, 2020.
Alcon, Miguel, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, Leonidas Kosmidis, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "En-Route: on enabling resource usage testing for autonomous driving frameworks." In Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 1953-1962. 2020.
Vilardell, Sergi, Isabel Serra, Jaume Abella, Joan Del Castillo, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Software Timing Analysis for Complex Hardware with Survivability and Risk Analysis." In 2019 IEEE 37th International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD), pp. 227-236. IEEE, 2019.
Calderón, Alejandro J., Leonidas Kosmidis, Carlos F. Nicolás, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Peio Onaindia. "Understanding and exploiting the internals of GPU resource allocation for critical systems." In 2019 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 1-8. IEEE, 2019.
Mazzocchetti, Fabio, Pedro Benedicte, Hamid Tabani, Leonidas Kosmidis, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Performance Analysis and Optimization of Automotive GPUs." In 2019 31st International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), pp. 96-103. IEEE, 2019.
Kosmidis, Leonidas, Jérôme Lachaize, Jaume Abella, Olivier Notebaert, Francisco J. Cazorla, and David Steenari. "GPU4S: Embedded GPUs in space." In 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), pp. 399-405. IEEE, 2019.
Trilla, David, Carles Hernández, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Modeling the Impact of Process Variations in Worst-Case Energy Consumption Estimation." In 22nd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), pp. 601-605. IEEE, 2019.
Pujol, Roger, Hamid Tabani, Leonidas Kosmidis, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella Ferrer, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Generating and Exploiting Deep Learning Variants to Increase Utilization of the Heterogeneous Resources in the Nvidia Xavier." In 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), vol. 23. 2019.
Tabani, Hamid, Leonidas Kosmidis, Jaume Abella, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Guillem Bernat. "Assessing the Adherence of Industrial Autonomous Driving Software to ISO-26262 Guidelines for Software." In 56th Design Automation Conference (DAC), June 2019, Las Vegas, USA.
Palomo, Xavier, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, Reinder J. Bril, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Accurate ILP-based contention modeling on statically scheduled multicore systems." In IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp. 15-28. IEEE, 2019.
Abella, Jaume, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "On assessing the viability of probabilistic scheduling with dependent tasks." In Proceedings of the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 625-634. 2019.
Cardona, Jordi, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Maximum-Contention Control Unit (MCCU): Resource Access Count and Contention Time Enforcement." In 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 710-715. IEEE, 2019.
Benedicte, Pedro, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "LAEC: Look-Ahead Error Correction Codes in Embedded Processors L1 Data Cache." In 2019 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), pp. 818-823. IEEE, 2019.
Benedicte, Pedro, Jaume Abella, Carles Hernandez, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Towards limiting the impact of timing anomalies in complex real-time processors." In Proceedings of the 24th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference (ASP-DAC), pp. 27-32. 2019.
Cardona, Jordi, Carles Hernandez, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "NoCo: ILP-Based Worst-Case Contention Estimation for Mesh Real-Time Manycores." In 2018 IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), pp. 265-276. IEEE, 2018.
Kosmidis, Leonidas, Cristian Maxim, Victor Jegu, Francis Vatrinet, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Industrial Experiences with Resource Management under Software Randomization in ARINC653 Avionics Environments." In 2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), pp. 1-7. IEEE, 2018.
Civit, Xavier, Joan del Castillo, and Jaume Abella. "A reliable statistical analysis of the best-fit distribution for high execution times." In 21st Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD), pp. 727-734. IEEE, 2018.
Díaz, Enrique, Enrico Mezzetti, Leonidas Kosmidis, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Modelling Multicore Contention on the AURIX™ TC27x." In Proceedings of the 55th Annual Design Automation Conference (DAC), pp. 1-6. 2018.
Benedicte, Pedro, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "HWP: hardware support to reconcile cache energy, complexity, performance and WCET estimates in multicore real-time systems." In 30th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), 2018.
Journals
Perez-Cerrolaza, Jon, Jaume Abella, Leonidas Kosmidis, Alejandro J. Calderon, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Jose Luis Flores. "GPU Devices for Safety-Critical Systems: A Survey." In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 55, no 7, p. 1-37.
Alcon, Miguel, Axel Brando, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Main sources of variability and non-determinism in AD software: taxonomy and prospects to handle them." In Real-Time Systems 59, no. 3 (2023): 438-478.
Brando, Axel, Isabel Serra, Enrico Mezzetti, Francisco J. Cazorla, Jon Perez-Cerrolaza, and Jaume Abella. "On Neural Networks Redundancy and Diversity for Their Use in Safety-Critical Systems." In IEEE Computer, 2023, vol. 56, no. 5, p. 41-50.
Cardona, Jordi, Carles Hernández, Jaume Abella, Enrico Mezzetti, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Accurately measuring contention in mesh NoCs in time-sensitive embedded systems." In ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems 28, no. 3 (2023): 1-34.
Alcon, Miguel, Hamid Tabani, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Dynamic and execution views to improve validation, testing, and optimization of autonomous driving software." In Software Quality Journal (2023): 1-35.
Pujol, Roger, Josep Jorba, Hamid Tabani, Leonidas Kosmidis, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco Cazorla. "Vector Extensions in COTS Processors to Increase Guaranteed Performance in Real-Time Systems." In ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2023, vol. 22, no. 2, p. 1-26.
Tabani, Hamid, Roger Pujol, Miguel Alcon, Joan Moya, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "ADBench: benchmarking autonomous driving systems." In Springer Computing, 2022, vol. 104, no. 3, p. 481-502.
Cazorla, Francisco J., Jaume Abella, and Enrico Mezzetti. "Dissecting Robust Resource Partitioning, Robust Time Partitioning, and Robust Partitioning in CAST-32A." In SAE Technical Paper, no. 2021-01-5101.
Tabani, Hamid, Leonidas Kosmidis, Enricp Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "On the Definition of Resource Sharing Levels to Understand and Control the Impact of Contention in Multicore Processors." In SAE Technical Papers, no. 2021-01-5055. 2021.
Tabani, Hamid, Fabio Mazzocchetti, Pedro Benedicte, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Performance Analysis and Optimization Opportunities for NVIDIA Automotive GPUs." In Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, no. 152 (2021): 21-32.
Vilardell, Sergi, Isabel Serra, Roberto Santalla, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "HRM: Merging Hardware Event Monitors for Improved Timing Analysis of Complex MPSoCs." In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 39, no. 11 (2020): 3662-3673.
Fusi, Matteo, Fabio Mazzocchetti, Albert Farres, Leonidas Kosmidis, Ramon Canal, Francisco J. Cazorla, and Jaume Abella. "On the Use of Probabilistic Worst-Case Execution Time Estimation for Parallel Applications in High Performance Systems." In Mathematics 8, no. 3 (2020): 314.
Cazorla, Francisco J., Leonidas Kosmidis, Enrico Mezzetti, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Tullio Vardanega. "Probabilistic worst-case timing analysis: Taxonomy and comprehensive survey." In ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) 52, no. 1 (2019): 1-35.
Benedicte, Pedro, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Locality-aware cache random replacement policies." In Journal of Systems Architecture 93 (2019): 48-61.
Cardona, Jordi, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "EOmesh: Combined Flow Balancing and Deterministic Routing for Reduced WCET Estimates in Embedded Real-Time Systems." In IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems 37, no. 11 (2018): 2451-2461.
Mezzetti, Enrico, Leonidas Kosmidis, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "High-Integrity Performance Monitoring Units in Automotive Chips for Reliable Timing V&V." In IEEE Micro 38, no. 1 (2018): 56-65.
Alcaide, Sergi, Leonidas Kosmidis, Hamid Tabani, Carles Hernandez, Jaume Abella, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Safety-Related Challenges and Opportunities for GPUs in the Automotive Domain." In IEEE Micro 38, no. 6 (2018): 46-55.
Workshops
Cazorla, Francisco J., Jean-Charles Fabre, Vincent Migliore, Quentin Meunier, Eric Jenn, Christine Rochange, Clément Maître, Ghilaine Martinez, Jean-Brice Ginestet and Virginie Wiels. "Study of the certifiability of software-hardware architectures based on hybrid ECUs." PHYLOG 2 (Etude de la certifiabilité des architectures logiciel-matériel reposant sur des calculateurs hybrides (Study of the certifiability of software-hardware architectures based on hybrid ECUs)). Francisco J. Cazorla participated in the meeting of the Scientific Committee of the PHYLOG2 project. The meeting was held in person in Toulouse on June 12th, 2023.
Brando, Axel . "Uncertainty modelling with neural networks." MCS: Mixed Critical Systems - Dependable and Secure Artificial Intelligent CPS, HiPEAC 2022. June 20-22, 2022.
Abella, Jaume and Francisco J. Cazorla. "Certification Aspects in Future AI-Based High-Integrity Systems." Minisymposia. MS6. Fair learning, New Bridges between Mathematics and Data Science. November 8-11, 2021.
Tabani, Hamid. "Challenges and Opportunities Towards Full Autonomous Driving." Thematic Section, HiPEAC CSW Autumn 2020. October 14, 2020.
Cazorla, Francisco J., Hamid Tabani. "Critical Embedded Computing Systems: Introduction and Major Hardware/Software design Trends." Doctoral course, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy. January 23-24, 2020.
Giesen, Jeremy, Enrico Mezzetti, Jaume Abella, Enrique Fernández, and Francisco J. Cazorla. "EPAPI: Performance application programming interface for embedded platforms." 19th International Workshop on Worst-Case Execution Time Analysis (WCET 2019), OpenAccess Series in Informatics (OASIcs), 2019.
Software
DRAMSim
Snoopy MSI-RPCT
GiGi