Synthesis of communication mechanisms for multi-tile systems based on Heterogeneous Multi-processor System-On-Chips

摘要

Current multimedia applications give birth to a large number of complex heterogeneous multiprocessor architectures with specific communication infrastructure designed to achieve their demanding requirements. To obtain higher computational power with these Multi-Processor System on Chips (MPSoCs), it is possible to connect several of them together through a specific network fabric, supported by dedicated Network Processors, reaching complexity levels too high for the general application programmer to cope with. This paper describes a flexible and efficient software implementation of communication mechanisms for such architectures, which masks the complexity of the communication infrastructure to the application programmer.