Scalable Multi-core Architectures

Covering the latest research on urgent challenges in many-core architectures and application mapping, this book addresses architectural design; memory, data and power management; and design and programming methodologies. It includes industrial case studies.

As Moore's law continues to unfold, two important trends have recently emerged. First, the growth of chip capacity is translated into a corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, the parallelization of the computation and 3D integration technologies lead to distributed memory architectures. This book describes recent research that addresses urgent challenges in many-core architectures and application mapping. It addresses the architectural design of many core chips, memory and data management, power management, design and programming methodologies. It also describes how new techniques have been applied in various industrial case studies.

Describes trends towards distributed memory architectures and distributed power management Integrates Network on Chip with distributed, shared memory architectures Demonstrates novel design methodologies and frameworks for multi-core design space exploration Shows how midlleware services (dynamic data management) can be integrated into and support by the platform Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Inhalt

Part I: HS/SW/ Building Blocks: Architecture, Methods, and Techniques.- 1. Memory Architecture and Management in an NoC Platform.- 2. Application-Specific Multi-Threaded Dynamic Memory Management.- 3. Power Management Architecture in McNoC.- 4. ASIP Exploration and Design.- Part II: System-level Exploration.- 5. System Exploration.- 6. MPA: Parallelization Made Easy.- Part III: Industrial Applications.- 7. MPSoC Architecture Performance Analysis for Agile SDR Radio Applications.- 8. Application of the MOSART Flow on the WiMAX (802.16e) PHY.