Hardware Multi-processor Design for Highly-Demanding Applications

This paper focuses on mastering the architecture development of hardware multi-processors for modern highly demanding applications. It presents the results of our analysis of the main issues to be addressed when designing multi-processors for such applications, and discusses our new multi-processor design method which developed to address these issues. We implemented the method in the form of an automatic design exploration tool. Using this tool we performed a large set of design experiments. The experiments demonstrated that without adequately addressing of the discussed design issues it is virtually impossible to construct high-quality hardware multi-processors, and that our design method adequately addresses them.