Parallel programming patterns for multi-processor SoC: application to video processing

摘要

Parallel computing emerged during the 1980s and, although multiprocessor and multicomputer architectures offered the potential of dramatic increases in processing power, the potential was rarely realized due to lack of programming tool support. Fast-forward 25 years, and we see multiprocessor architectures based on multicore processors, combining system-on-a-chip (SoC) and network-on-a-chip (NoC). Such architectures have tremendous computational capabilities, but-as you will learn from this paper-the key to unleash these capabilities lies in the programming abstractions and tool support.