Real-Time High-Performance Software Visualization Tool

Graphical depiction would be a more useful and easily comprehended method of verifying real-time software performance than methods currently in use. It could be applied across a wider range of applications to increase real-time software reliability and decrease development costs. ORINCON proposes an innovative method for dynamically displaying real-time software timing information, This method would provide the capability to collect timing data for a real-time system and replay it using time lines and color coding to show the relationship of execution times to budgets. Displays would be shown in layers so that timing could be analyzed at different levels, from the top-level system processes down to the subroutine level. Processor loading also would be displayed. The collected timing data would be replayed at an operator-selected speed to aid in understanding. Static graphs of cumulative statistics, such as average execution time, would also be provided. In this method, the decoupling of the display of the timing data from its collection would not only permit the replay to be done at a selectable speed, but also would be a key factor in minimizing the effort required to evaluate real-time software performance on different target hardware.