Multicore design is the challenge! what is the solution?

ABSTRACT

Multi Processor SoC (MPSoC) are being designed today. MPSoC design can help achieve aggressive performance and low power targets but it creates new design challenges: How to design the interconnect fabric and memory sub-system to allow the massive data movement required in a multi processor SoC environment? How to develop, debug and verify HW and SW functionality in a MPSoC design? Is MPSoC design an inflection point that will require new design methods including ESL methodologies?

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.1 PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
      C.1.2 Multiple Data Stream Architectures (Multiprocessors)

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Languages, Performance, Standardization, Verification

Keywords:
ESL, MPSoC, heterogeneous/homogenous multicore, interconnect, multi-core, multiprocessors, programming model, symmetric/asymmetric multicore, virtual platforms, virtual prototyping