Real World Multicore Embedded Systems

This Expert Guide gives you the techniques and technologies in embedded multicore to optimally design and implement your embedded system. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference gives you an indispensable aid to tackling the day-to-day problems when building and managing multicore embedded systems.

Following an embedded system design path from start to finish, our team of experts takes you from architecture, through hardware implementation to software programming and debug.

With this book you will learn:

• What motivates multicore

• The architectural options and tradeoffs; when to use what

• How to deal with the unique hardware challenges that multicore presents

• How to manage the software infrastructure in a multicore environment

• How to write effective multicore programs

• How to port legacy code into a multicore system and partition legacy software

• How to optimize both the system and software

• The particular challenges of debugging multicore hardware and software

Chapter 1: Introduction and Roadmap Chapter 2: The Promise and Challenges of Concurrency Chapter 3: Multicore Architectures Chapter 4: Memory Models for Embedded Multicore Architectures Chapter 5: Design Considerations for Multicore SoC Interconnections Chapter 6: Operating Systems in Multicore Platforms Chapter 7: System Virtualization in Multicore Systems Chapter 8: Communication and Synchronization Libraries Chapter 9: Programming Languages and tools (two-part chapter) Chapter 10: Partitioning Programs for Multicore Systems Chapter 11: Synchronization Chapter 12: Hardware Accelerators Chapter 13: Multicore Synchronization Hardware Chapter 14: Optimization Chapter 15: Bare-Metal Systems Chapter 16: Multicore Debug