Title :
Software Migration for Parallel Execution on a Multicore Tablet: A Case Study
Author :
Weihua Sheng ; Szymanski, Piotr ; Leupers, Rainer ; Ascheid, Gerd
Author_Institution :
Inst. for Commun. Technol. & Embedded Syst., RWTH Aachen Univ., Aachen, Germany
Abstract :
Recent developments in the embedded industry have shown that future products will be based on heterogeneous MPSoCs (Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip) due to their optimal trade-off among performance, power and flexibility. Programming such MPSoC platforms is a grand challenge for embedded SoC users today. In this paper, we investigate the problem of migrating a legacy code base towards MPSoCs. We present a case study of extending an existing parallelization tool-suite to target a real-life Nvidia Tegra 3 based tablet. A systematic methodology is proposed to integrate differently parallelized parts into existing sequential code. Our experimental results showed that the proposed methodology with tools support is promising to help software migration and improve programmer´s productivity.
Keywords :
multiprocessing systems; notebook computers; parallel processing; software maintenance; system-on-chip; embedded SoC; embedded industry; heterogeneous MPSoCs; legacy code base; multicore tablet; multiprocessor systems-on-chip; parallel execution; parallelization tool-suite; real-life Nvidia Tegra 3 based tablet; software migration; Acceleration; Benchmark testing; Graphics processing units; Image edge detection; Multicore processing; Programming;
Conference_Titel :
Embedded Multicore Socs (MCSoC), 2013 IEEE 7th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
DOI :
10.1109/MCSoC.2013.17
