Programming Heterogeneous MPSoCs

Offering techniques for programming Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) capable of executing simultaneous multiple applications, this book includes methodologies to narrow the software productivity gap, and reviews challenges underlying current practices.

This book provides embedded software developers with techniques for programming heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs), capable of executing multiple applications simultaneously. It describes a set of algorithms and methodologies to narrow the software productivity gap, as well as an in-depth description of the underlying problems and challenges of today's programming practices. The authors present four different tool flows: A parallelism extraction flow for applications written using the C programming language, a mapping and scheduling flow for parallel applications, a special mapping flow for baseband applications in the context of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a final flow for analyzing multiple applications at design time. The tool flows are evaluated on Virtual Platforms (VPs), which mimic different characteristics of state-of-the-art heterogeneous MPSoCs.

Provides a novel set of algorithms and methodologies for programming heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs) Equips embedded software developers with a unified presentation of sequential and parallel programming Focuses on industry-relevant methodologies and uses real case studies to demonstrate techniques Enables solution of multi-application problems, with generalized and unified programming models Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Klappentext
This book provides embedded software developers with techniques for programmingheterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs), capable of executing multiple applications simultaneously. It describes a set of algorithms and methodologies to narrow the software productivity gap, as well as an in-depth description of the underlying problems and challenges of today's programming practices. The authors present four different tool flows: A parallelism extraction flow for applications writtenusing the C programming language, a mapping and scheduling flow for parallel applications, a special mapping flow for baseband applications in the context of Software Defined Radio (SDR) and a final flow for analyzing multiple applications at design time. The tool flows are evaluated on Virtual Platforms (VPs), which mimic different characteristics of state-of-the-art heterogeneous MPSoCs. • Provides a novel set of algorithms and methodologies for programming heterogeneous Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoCs);• Equips embedded software developers with a unified presentation of sequential and parallel programming;• Focuses on industry-relevant methodologies and uses real case studies to demonstrate techniques;• Enables solution of multi-application problems, with generalized and unified programming models.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Background and Problem Definition.- Related Work.- MPSoC Runtime Management.- Sequential Code Flow.- Parallel Code Flow.- Extensions for Software Defined Radio.- Multi-application Flow.- Conclusions and Outlook.