Scheduler

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What is Scheduler?

Scheduler is a tool that is intented to help understand how real-time algorithms work.

How it works

The user enters a number of tasks. For each of them, caracteristics must specified such as the deadline or the execution duration.
Executing the simulation displays the CPU usage by each task, based on a fictive time-scale. When a task is using the CPU at a particular moment, a block is displayed on the relevant line.
It is not possible to have more than one task using the CPU at a particular moment. This moment is considered as indivisible.

Features

• up to 32.000 tasks managed during a single simulation
• graphical display on the simulation results
• graphical display of the deadlines; the missed deadlines are also clearly shown
• save and restore of a set of tasks
• export of the simulation results to a text file
• possibility to add more algorithms, by inheriting a base class
• possibility to add more tasks, by inheriting a base class
• parametrizable simulation speed
• possibility to "hot-swap" algorithms while a simulation is running (except for Earliest Deadline Last)

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