Editorial

摘要

We are very pleased to welcome you to this edition of the International Journal of High Performance Systems Architecture. This is a special issue on parallel architectures and applications which comprises a set of seven papers very carefully selected from the best papers from WSCAD-SSC Conference in 2009. The authors of the selected papers submitted an extended version of their work and then all the papers went again through a new review process. We are thankful to the authors for their contributions to this special issue. Next, a brief introduction to these papers. In the paper entitled 'A minimalist cache coherent MPSoC designed for FPGAs', authors describe the design and VHDL implementation of a cache coherent MPSoC named minimalist cache coherent MPSoC (MCCM). The system comprises 1 to 8 MIPS-I processors, coherent primary data caches, memory management units, memory controller and their interconnection. The authors present a detailed account of the implementation, focusing on the shared memory subsystem. A simple benchmark is used to assess the overall system functionality. The paper also