Flexible DMA subsystem in multi-core platforms for video applications

Generic algorithms for scheduling applications on heterogeneous multi-core platforms

Abstract We study the problem of executing an application represented by a precedence task graph on a parallel machine composed of standard computing cores and accelerators. Contrary to most existing approaches, we distinguish the allocation and the scheduling phases and we mainly focus on the allocation part of the problem: choose the most appropriate type of computing unit for each task. We a...

Flexible High Performance Traffic Generation on Commodity Multi-core Platforms

Generating high-volume and accurate test traffic is crucial for assessing the performance of network devices in a reliable way and under different stress conditions. However, traffic generation still relies mostly on special purpose hardware. In fact, available software generators are able to reproduce rich and involved traffic patterns, but do not meet the performance requirements that are nee...

Flexible Multi-Core Platform for a Multiple-Format Video Decoder

A Low Power Soft Core for Multi-Standard Video Applications

Product life time and design reusability have become critical objectives for todays system on chip designs. To achieve long life cycles for high performance devices calls for increased flexibility of intellectual property (IP) cores as well as SoC solutions. While programmability is one of the key factors in achieving this goal, its impact on die size and increased power consumption should be k...

Thread Scheduling for Multi-Core Platforms

As multi-core processors with tens or hundreds of cores begin to proliferate, system optimization issues once faced only by the high-performance computing (HPC) community will become important to all programmers. However, unlike with HPC, the focus of the multi-core programmer will be on programming productivity and portability as much as performance. We introduce in this paper a novel scheduli...