Real world multicore embedded systems : a practical approach / Bryon Moyer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moyer, Bryon.

Contributor:

Moyer, Bryon.

Series:

Expert guide series.

Expert guide Real world multicore embedded systems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Embedded computer systems.

Multiprocessors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 623 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Newnes, 2013.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This Expert Guide gives you the techniques and technologies in embedded multicore to optimally design and implement your embedded system. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference gives you an indispensable aid to tackling the day-to-day problems when building and managing multicore embedded systems. Following an embedded system design path from start to finish, our team of experts takes you from architecture, through hardware implementation to software programming and debug. With this book you will learn: What motivates multicor

Contents:

Front Cover; Real World Multicore Embedded Systems; Copyright Page; Contents; About the Editor; About the Authors; 1 Introduction and Roadmap; Multicore is here; Scope; Who should read this book?; Organization and roadmap; Concurrency; Architecture; High-level architecture; Memory architecture; Interconnect; Infrastructure; Operating systems; Virtualization; Multicore-related libraries; Application software; Languages and tools; Partitioning applications; Synchronization; Hardware assistance; Hardware accelerators; Synchronization hardware; System-level considerations; Bare-metal systems

DebugA roadmap of this book; 2 The Promise and Challenges of Concurrency; Concurrency fundamentals; Two kinds of concurrency; Data parallelism; Functional parallelism; Dependencies; Producers and consumers of data; Loops and dependencies; Shared resources; Summary; 3 Multicore Architectures; The need for multicore architectures; Multicore architecture drivers; Traditional sequential software paradigms break; Scope of multicore hardware architectures; Basic multicore hardware architecture overview; Specific multicore architecture characteristics; Processing architectures

ALU processing architecturesLightweight processing architectures; Mediumweight processing architectures; Heavyweight processing architectures; Communication architectures; Memory architectures; Application specificity; Application-specific platform topologies; Integration of multicore systems, MPSoCs and sub-systems; Programming challenges; Application characteristics; MPSoC analysis, debug and verification; Shortcomings and solutions; MPSoC parallel programming; Parallel software and MPSoCs; Summary; References; 4 Memory Models for Embedded Multicore Architecture; Introduction; Memory types

RAMDRAM; SRAM; NVRAM; DPRAM; EPROM; Flash; SD-MMC; Hard Disk; Memory architecture; Cache; Translation lookaside buffer (TLB); Instruction cache; Data cache; Cache customization; Virtual memory; Scratch pad; Software overlays; DMA; DRAM; Special-purpose memory; Memory structure of multicore architecture; Shared memory architecture; Uniform memory access (UMA); Non-uniform memory access (NUMA); Distributed memory architecture; Cache memory in multicore chips; Cache coherency; Directory-based cache coherence protocol; Snoopy cache coherence protocol; MESI cache coherence protocol

Cache-related performance issuesFalse sharing and the ping-pong effect; Processor affinity; Cache locking; Transactional memory; Software transactional memory; Hardware transactional memory; Hybrid transactional memory; Summary; References; 5 Design Considerations for Multicore SoC Interconnections; Introduction; Importance of interconnections in an SoC; Terminology; Organization of the chapter; Communication activity in multicore SoCs; Transaction-based communication; Storage-oriented transactions; Addressed Accesses; Non-addressed storage-oriented transactions; Messages; Interrupts

Concurrency of communication and segregation of traffic

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299261815

1299261817

9780123914613

0123914612

OCLC:

834587505