This is a general page for information on Mixed-Criticality Systems research at the Real-Time Systems Group of the Department of Computer Science at the University of York.

An increasingly important trend in the design of real-time and embedded systems is the integration of components with different levels of criticality onto a common hardware platform. At the same time, these platforms are migrating from single cores to multi/many-cores and cyber-physical systems. Criticality is a designation of the level of assurance against failure needed for a system component. A mixed criticality system is one that has two or more distinct levels (for example safety critical, mission critical and low-critical).