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Multicore Systems on Chip

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This chapter discusses multicore architectures for DSP applications. We explain briefly the main challenges involved in future processor designs, justifying the need for thread level parallelism exploration, since instruction-level parallelism is becoming increasingly difficult and unfeasible to explore given a limited power budget. We discuss, based on an analytical model, the tradeoffs on using multiprocessor architectures over high-end single-processor design regarding performance and energy. Hence, the analytical model is applied to a traditional DSP application, illustrating the need of both instruction and thread exploration on such application domain. Some successful MPSoC designs are presented and discussed, indicating the different trend of embedded and general-purpose processor market designs. Finally, we produce a thorough analysis on hardware and software open problems like interconnection mechanism and programming models.

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Carro, L., Rutzig, M.B. (2013). Multicore Systems on Chip. In: Bhattacharyya, S., Deprettere, E., Leupers, R., Takala, J. (eds) Handbook of Signal Processing Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6859-2_17

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