Embedded multicore systems: Architecture, performance and application

摘要

Smart mobile devices demand higher performance of embedded systems. With the recent advances in VLSI technology, multi-core processors (e.g. ARM Coretex A-15 or Qualcomm SnapDragon, both are 4 cores at 2.5 GHz available in 2012) are getting popular in today's embedded system; multicore systems can be considered as the established trend in modem architectures. While these systems are more powerful than ever, application specific architectures, energy consumption, and their applications remain challenge. Silicon resources are becoming increasingly abundant, heterogeneous processing elements can be combined together with many cores on a chip by processor designers. Such architectures, while providing important improvements in system performance, also pose new research issues that need to be resolved.