TASKING Delivers Advanced Worst-Case Timing Coupling Analysis and Mitigation for Multicore Designs

The enhanced TASKING inte­grat­ed tool­chain com­bines com­pile, debug, and test capa­bil­i­ties to auto­mate the mea­sure­ment, assess­ment, and opti­miza­tion of hid­den tim­ing inter­fer­ence in mul­ti­core SoCs for safe­ty- and secu­ri­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions

Munich – Feb­ru­ary 18, 2026 – TASKING, a glob­al leader in high-per­for­mance embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools, today announced enhance­ments to its uni­fied tool­chain that pro­vide greater in-depth tim­ing analy­sis of real-time, mul­ti­core embed­ded sys­tems. With the inte­gra­tion of TASKING’s com­pil­er tech­nol­o­gy, Blue­Box debug­gers, winIDEA IDE, and the LDRA tool suite, devel­op­ers can more accu­rate­ly assess com­plex tim­ing issues such as worst-case exe­cu­tion time (WCET) as out­lined by indus­try stan­dards. By accel­er­at­ing and sim­pli­fy­ing com­plex tim­ing cou­pling analy­sis, TASKING helps OEMs reduce the risks and costs asso­ci­at­ed with cer­ti­fy­ing mis­sion-crit­i­cal mul­ti­core sys­tems, includ­ing appli­ca­tions in aero­space, auto­mo­tive, indus­tri­al, and robot­ics such as col­lab­o­ra­tive robots (cobots).

Embed­ded sys­tems are increas­ing­ly mov­ing towards mul­ti­core proces­sors and sys­tems on a chip (SoC) to improve per­for­mance. Exe­cu­tion time of crit­i­cal real-time tasks can be impact­ed by data and con­trol cou­pling that aris­es when other tasks run­ning on the same proces­sor need to access shared data or hard­ware resources. The inter­nal com­plex­i­ty of mul­ti­core SoCs, how­ev­er, also intro­duces hid­den tim­ing inter­fer­ence that can be dif­fi­cult to accu­rate­ly assess. For exam­ple, inde­pen­dent tasks run­ning on dif­fer­ent cores may expe­ri­ence con­tention for shared cache resources that sig­nif­i­cant­ly impact exe­cu­tion time and sys­tem deter­min­ism. TASKING’s inte­grat­ed tool­chain accu­rate­ly assess­es worst-case tim­ing inter­fer­ence and accel­er­ates the process through AI-assist­ed automa­tion.

“Mul­ti­core tim­ing inter­fer­ence presents a dif­fi­cult chal­lenge for the assur­ance of safe­ty and secu­ri­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions,” said Christoph Her­zog, Co-CEO of TASKING. “Our uni­fied tool­chain inte­grates com­pile, debug, and test capa­bil­i­ties togeth­er to iden­ti­fy com­plex mul­ti­core tim­ing cou­pling, pro­vide analy­sis to guide the mit­i­ga­tion or elim­i­na­tion of tim­ing issues, and assure deter­min­is­tic behav­ior and per­for­mance of mul­ti­core appli­ca­tions that must com­ply with strict safe­ty and secu­ri­ty stan­dards.”

The Inte­grat­ed Advan­tage

The TASKING tool­chain accel­er­ates the entire develop­ment life­cy­cle, pro­vid­ing the analy­sis and require­ments trace­abil­i­ty essen­tial for safe­ty- and secu­ri­ty-crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions that must com­ply with stan­dards such as DO-178C, A(M)C 20-193 and DO-356A (aero­space); ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434 (auto­mo­tive); IEC 61508 and IEC 62443 (indus­tri­al), and ISO 10218 and ISO/TS 15066 (robot­ics). Togeth­er, these tools enable a seam­less iter­a­tive analy­sis process to auto­mate the lengthy sys­tem tests nec­es­sary to ana­lyze sys­tem-level tim­ing cou­pling. With this data, OEMs can observe and then mit­i­gate or even elim­i­nate tim­ing cou­pling across tasks run­ning on dif­fer­ent cores. Analy­sis can be repeat­ed to ensure mit­i­ga­tions are work­ing cor­rect­ly and tim­ing con­straints are met to assure deter­min­is­tic sys­tem behav­ior.

In addi­tion to clas­sic tool inte­gra­tion, TASKING pro­vides MCP servers and AI skills to allow AI agen­tic work­flows. This ampli­fies devel­op­er per­for­mance and accel­er­ates prod­uct develop­ment.

“By inte­grat­ing our tools into a sin­gle uni­fied tool­chain, we help OEMs accel­er­ate develop­ment, debug­ging, and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of mul­ti­core sys­tems,” Her­zog added. “We also offer sim­pli­fied glob­al fleet licens­ing and expert tech­ni­cal sup­port to enable OEMs to deliv­er and cer­ti­fy safer sys­tems faster, with less risk, and at a lower cost.” Learn how the TASKING tool­chain is chang­ing the way the world devel­ops embed­ded soft­ware. The over­all com­pile – debug – test port­fo­lio, includ­ing AI capa­bil­i­ties, will be show­cased by TASKING at Embed­ded World 2026, in Hall 4, Booth 4-150.

About TASKING

TASKING is a lead­ing provider of embed­ded soft­ware develop­ment tools that com­pile, debug, and test. These tools enable embed­ded soft­ware engi­neers to devel­op reli­able, high-per­for­mance appli­ca­tions for a safer future. Found­ed in 1977, TASKING is com­mit­ted to expand­ing its port­fo­lio to deliv­er a sin­gle-sup­pli­er, cer­ti­fi­able tool­chain. As a trust­ed part­ner focused on cus­tomer need, exper­tise and a com­mit­ment to sus­tain­abil­i­ty, TASKING and its inte­grat­ed tool­chain accel­er­ates the soft­ware develop­ment life­cy­cle for safe­ty and secu­ri­ty crit­i­cal appli­ca­tions in indus­tries such as auto­mo­tive, aero­space and defense, indus­tri­al, med­ical, robot­ics and oth­ers.

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Media con­tacts:

Eylul Kocak, Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er, TASKING
Tel:  +49 89 262010082, Email: eylul.kocak@tasking.com

Kelly Wan­lass, Media Rela­tions, HCI Mar­ket­ing and Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Inc.
Tel: +1 (801) 602-4723, Email: kelly@hcimarketing.com