As ever, resource optimization, especially of RAM, ROM and execution time but also of scheduling, has an important role in mass-production projects. It can reduce costs and increase reliability.

In many customer projects we demonstrated that, to some degree, something can be gained with little effort. The approach is very systematic. Initially, scheduling bottle-necks are inspected at the system level. Only at these places do code level optimizations offer a benefit. For example, optimising the idle task is unlikely to help. Apart from anything else, hot-spots can often be eased by modifying the scheduling and not the code.
When optimization at the code level is warranted, our detailed knowledge of common automotive processor architectures and widespread experience with optimizing compilers are invaluable.

Last but not least, we can deploy our timing suite T1, which is perfectly suited to guiding and measuring resource optimization.