Retargetable processor system integration into multi-processor system on chip platforms

Analysis and Optimization of Multi-Processor System-On-Chip Platforms

Naxim: A Fast and Retargetable Network-on-Chip Simulator with QEMU and SystemC

Systems-on-Chip (SoC) architectures have been shifting from single-core to multi-core solutions, and they are at present evolving towards many-core ones. Network-on-Chip (NoC) is considered as a promising interconnection scheme for many-core SoCs since it offers better scalability than traditional bus-based interconnection. In this work, we have developed a fast simulator of NoC architectures u...

Xtensa: A Configurable and Extensible Processor

Until a few years ago, processors were only sold as packaged individual ICs. The growing density of CMOS circuits, however, created an opportunity to incorporate the processor as part of a larger system on a chip. Initial processor designs for this market were based on the processor existing as a separate entity, and cores were handcrafted for each manufacturing process technology, resulting in...

Proposed Feature Selection for Dynamic Thermal Management in Multicore Systems

Increasing the number of cores in order to the demand of more computing power has led to increasing the processor temperature of a multi-core system. One of the main approaches for reducing temperature is the dynamic thermal management techniques. These methods divided into two classes, reactive and proactive. Proactive methods manage the processor temperature, by forecasting the temperature be...

Processor Evaluation Cube: A classification and survey of processor evaluation techniques

Selecting appropriate hardware resources corresponding to the application is an important task for design of an embedded system or a SoC. A large number of techniques have been proposed in literature to select a processor matching with the application requirements. In this report, we propose a framework called Processor Evaluation Cube (PEC) which helps in systematic classification and comparis...