In many embedded system designs cost is king. To keep costs down, designers will typically call upon a single microprocessor to run the whole show, figuring that fewer parts means lower cost. But ...

Those days have long gone. There is currently a tremendous growth in the development of systems that involve tens or hundreds of complex processors and hardware accelerators in closely coupled or ...

The design, implementation, and programming of multicore heterogeneous systems is becoming more common, often driven by the software workloads, but the tooling to help optimize the processors, ...

As with the single-task design, a design without concurrent tasks is also a good place to use a single processor. One exception to this rule of thumb is that if a design’s functions are remote from ...

In this paper, we describe the design flow, architecture and implementation of our 3D multiprocessor with NoC. The design based on 16 processors communicating using a 4x2x2 mesh NoC spread on two ...

Heterogeneous multiprocessor (HMP) systems, using functionally asymmetric compute elements, such as application processors and microcontrollers integrated within the same SoCs, are now used ...

Ever since the first microprocessors surfaced, programmable processors have strived to replace dedicated logic to provide a lower-cost, more flexible solution. In signal processing, the same is true.