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Multi-core processor architectures 

Multi-core processor architectures 

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The increased demand for processor-level parallelism has many-folded the challenges for SoC designers to design, simulate and veri-fy/validate today's Multi-core System-On-Chip (SoC) due to the increased system complexity. There is also a need to reduce the design cycle time to produce a complex multi-core SOC system thereby the product can be brou...

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... multi-core processors are classified into Homogenous (sym- metric) and Heterogeneous processors. The homogeneous multi- processor architecture provides a much simpler platform on which to build applications in which all processors are identical. Figure 1 (a) demonstrates the architecture of homogenous multi-processor system which consists of four identical processor cores that are interconnected through the Processor Interconnect Fabric. The major advantages of homogenous multicore processor is that each core is capable of replicating any other core thus by enabling load sharing among the cores thereby providing symmetric operation. The heterogeneous multi-processor architecture as shown in Fig- ure 1 (b) has multiple processing cores each of which are having specialized capabilities and hence can provide opportunities to improve performance and efficiency. Since each processor in HMA is specialized for a different type of workload, this architec- ture may hence restrict the sharing the workloads among the avail- able processors. ...
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... multi-core processors are classified into Homogenous (sym- metric) and Heterogeneous processors. The homogeneous multi- processor architecture provides a much simpler platform on which to build applications in which all processors are identical. Figure 1 (a) demonstrates the architecture of homogenous multi-processor system which consists of four identical processor cores that are interconnected through the Processor Interconnect Fabric. The major advantages of homogenous multicore processor is that each core is capable of replicating any other core thus by enabling load sharing among the cores thereby providing symmetric operation. The heterogeneous multi-processor architecture as shown in Fig- ure 1 (b) has multiple processing cores each of which are having specialized capabilities and hence can provide opportunities to improve performance and efficiency. Since each processor in HMA is specialized for a different type of workload, this architec- ture may hence restrict the sharing the workloads among the avail- able processors. ...

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