SoC-C: efficient programming abstractions for heterogeneous multicore systems on chip

fficient Programming Abstractions for Heterogeneous Multicore Systems on Chip Alastair D. Reid Krisztian Flautner Edmund Grimley-Evans ARM Ltd Yuan Lin University of Michigan The architectures of system-on-chip (SoC) platforms found in high-end consumer devices are getting more and more complex as designers strive to deliver increasingly compute-intensive applications on near-constant energy budgets. Workloads running on these platforms require the exploitation of heterogeneous parallelism and increasingly irregular memory hierarchies. The conventional approach to programming such hardware is very lowlevel but this yields software which is intimately and inseparably tied to the details of the platform it was originally designed for, limiting the software's portability, and, ultimately, the architectural choices available to designers of future platform generations. The key insight of this paper is that many of the problems experienced in mapping applications onto SoC platforms co...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: CASES
• Authors: Alastair D. Reid, Krisztián Flautner, Edmund Grimley-Evans, Yuan Lin
• Keywords: CASES 2008, Fficient Programming Abstractions, Heterogeneous Multicore Systems, Heterogeneous Parallelism, System Software