Systematic and Automated Multiprocessor System Design, Programming, and Implementation

Abstract--For modern embedded systems in the realm of highthroughput multimedia, imaging, and signal processing, the complexity of embedded applications has reached a point where the performance requirements of these applications can no longer be supported by embedded system architectures based on a single processor. Thus, the emerging embedded system-on-chip platforms are increasingly becoming multiprocessor architectures. As a consequence, two major problems emerge, namely how to design and how to program such multiprocessor platforms in a systematic and automated way in order to reduce the design time and to satisfy the performance needs of applications executed on such platforms. As an efficient solution to these two problems, in this paper, we present the methodology and techniques implemented in a tool called Embedded System-level Platform synthesis and Application Mapping (ESPAM) for automated multiprocessor system design, programming, and implementation. ESPAM moves the design ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TCAD
• Authors: Hristo Nikolov, Todor Stefanov, Ed F. Deprettere
• Keywords: Embedded System, Multiprocessor, Multiprocessor Platform, TCAD 2008