Software Standards for the Multicore Era

Author

Holt, Jim ; Agarwal, Anant ; Brehmer, Sven ; Domeika, Max ; Griffin, Patrick ; Schirrmeister, Frank

Author_Institution

Freescale Semicond., Austin, TX

Volume

29

Issue

3

fYear

2009

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Systems architects commonly use multiple cores to improve system performance. Unfortunately, multicore hardware is evolving faster than software technologies. New multicore software standards are necessary in light of the new challenges and capabilities that embedded multicore systems provide. The newly released multicore communications API standard targets small-footprint, highly efficient intercore and interchip communications.

Keywords

application program interfaces; microprocessor chips; software architecture; interchip communications; intercore communications; multicore communications API standard; multicore era; multicore hardware; software standards; software technologies; systems architects; Application software; Code standards; Computer architecture; Debugging; Hardware; Multicore processing; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Programming profession; Software standards; distributed computing; embedded programming; heterogeneous systems; message-passing systems; multicore chips; multicore software; parallel computing; software development; software portability; software standards;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Micro, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1732

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MM.2009.48

Filename

5076438