Post by thread:[EE]: Round robin "management" tools

Hi, Does anyone know of a tool (more like an expert system) that allows key management control of bog-standard round robin main loop systems? This tool would not be part of the embedded system but rather allow the user to operate the process call structure (table) that the firmware uses to call processes. (Sorry, I know that is not a lot of information, but I am assuming that round robin loops are fairly generic) The tool would ideally allow the user to: Define the total run time of the loop and the size/number/run time of the "process slots" within this loop. Define precedence information (i.e. which slots HAVE to be run in a specific order) Define process spacing which may basically define the time between repeated processes being invoked (eg, if a communication parsing process was called at equally spaced points around the loop and had to be invoked within certain limits so as not to lose characters from buffers etc) Modify a process' run time/parameters and have the tool perform some algorithm on suggesting a new main loop scheme that still adheres to the rules defined in 1, 2 and 3. Of course, you might say, "Why don't you use an OS then you don't have to worry about that ?" - No OS suggestions, please ;-) This basically comes out from the fact that, when resources have become low, I have to spend a lot of time re-jigging round robin loops that still conform to the rule set when some requirement change comes along and process x is no longer long enough to handle the (old + new) task. It doesn't sound too bad until you consider that there are a lot of rules to conform to. Regards, Dan -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.