Six Design and Development Considerations for Embedded Multi-Processor Systems

White Paper Six Design and Development Considerations for Embedded Multi-Processor Systems

Designing Embedded Virtualized Intel(R) Architecture Platforms with the right Embedded Hypervisor

Virtualization is fast becoming a key enabling technology for embedded designs, offering the potential opportunity to consolidate multi-processor designs into a single processor multi-core design, legacy and proprietary embedded software migration and separation for performance and safety critical applications. In this paper, we investigate the various hypervisor software models that exist and ...

Multigrain Parallelization for Model-Based Design Applications Using the OSCAR Compiler

Model-based design is a very popular software development method for developing a wide variety of embedded applications such as automotive systems, aircraft systems, and medical systems. Model-based design tools like MATLAB/Simulink typically allow engineers to graphically build models consisting of connected blocks for the purpose of reducing development time. These tools also support automati...

Embedded-TM: Energy and complexity-effective hardware transactional memory for embedded multicore systems

We investigate how transactional memory can be adapted for embedded systems. We consider energy consumption and complexity to be driving concerns in the design of these systems and therefore adapt simple hardware transactional memory (HTM) schemes in our architectural design. We propose several different cache structures and contention management schemes to support HTM and evaluate them in term...

A model-based software implementation tool for multiprocessor embedded systems

We apply a formal, automated model-based design tool for synthesizing correct-by-construction parallel implementations of an MPEG-4 video encoder. The tool allows for early prototyping, verification and simulation of embedded applications. The generated software implementations are multi-threaded and customized for system on-chip multi-processor architectures. We consider two HW platforms: a cu...