Real time Rust on multi-core microcontrollers

Sammanfattning: Today the majority of embedded software is written in C or C++ using the thread paradigm. C and C++ are memory unsafe programming languages that often appear in CVE (Common Vulnerability and Exploits) reports. Threads are a popular concurrency paradigm in SMP (Symmetric Multi Processor) systems; however, threads can deadlock and are hard to statically analyze for schedulability. At the same time, security is becoming more and more important thanks to the exponential grow of IoT (Internet of Things) devices; meanwhile, vendors are starting to ship more and more heterogeneous multi-core devices where the thread paradigm can not be applied. In this thesis, we present an alternative programming framework for building real time, safety critical and general purpose embedded software that is memory safe by construction and suitable for single-core, homogeneous multi-core and heterogeneous multi-core systems.