Increasingly demanding modern applications.such as those used in
telecommunications networking and real-time processing of audio, video,
and multimedia streams.require multiple processors to achieve computational
performance at the rate of a few giga-operations per second. This necessity
for speed and manageable power consumption makes it likely that the next
generation of embedded processing systems will include hundreds of cores,
while being increasingly programmable, blending processors and configurable
hardware in a power-efficient manner.

Multi-Core Embedded Systems presents a variety of perspectives that
elucidate the technical challenges associated with such increased integration
of homogeneous (processors) and heterogeneous multiple cores. It offers an
analysis that industry engineers and professionals will need to understand
the physical details of both software and hardware in embedded architectures,
as well as their limitations and potential for future growth.

Discusses the available programming models spread across different abstraction
levels

The book begins with an overview of the evolution of multiprocessor
architectures for embedded applications and discusses techniques for
autonomous power management of system-level parameters.

* Architectures and interconnects
* Embedded design methodologies
* Mapping of applications
* Programming paradigms and models of computation
* Power optimization and reliability issues
* Performance tools and benchmarks
* Resource management
* Multithreading
* Multi-core programming challenges
* Compiler and operating system support

This is a detailed discussion of research on the interaction between multi-
core systems, applications and software views, and processor configuration and
extension, which add a new dimension to the problem space. The text offers a
useful overview of the most widespread industrial and domain-specific solutions,
providing several examples of working implementations.

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