Multicore Technology Architecture, Reconfiguration, and Modeling

The saturation of design complexity and clock frequencies for single-core processors has resulted in the emergence of multicore architectures as an alternative design paradigm. Nowadays, multicore/multithreaded computing systems are not only a de-facto standard for high-end applications, they are also gaining popularity in the field of embedded computing. The start of the multicore era has altered the concepts relating to almost all of the areas of computer architecture design, including core design, memory management, thread scheduling, application support, inter-processor communication, debugging, and power management. This book gives readers a holistic overview of the field and guides them to further avenues of research by covering the state of the art in this area. It includes contributions from industry as well as academia.

Architecture and Design FlowMORA: High-Level FPGA Programming Using a Many-Core FrameworkWim Vanderbauwhede, Sai Rahul Chalamalasetti, and Martin MargalaImplementing Time-Constrained Applications on a Predictable MPSocSander Stuijk, Akash Kumar, Roel Jordans, and Henk CorporaalSESAM: A Virtual Prototyping Solution to Design Multicore ArchitecturesNicolas Ventroux, Tanguy Sassolas, Alexandre Guerre, and Caaliph AndriamisainaParallelism and OptimizationVerified Multicore Parallelism Using Atomic Verifiable OperationsMichal Dobrogost, Christopher Kumar Anand, and Wolfram KahlAccelerating Critical Section Execution with Multicore ArchitecturesM. Aater Suleman and Onur MutluMemory SystemsTMbox: A Flexible and Reconfigurable Hybrid Transactional Memory SystemNehir Sonmez, Oriol Arcas, Osman S. Unsal, Adrián Cristal, and Satnam SinghEM2 Omer Khan, Mieszko Lis, Keun Sup Shim, Myong Hyon Cho, and Srinivas DevadasCAFÉ: Cache-Aware Fair and Efficient Scheduling for CMPsRichard West, Puneet Zaroo, Carl A. Waldspurger, and Xiao ZhangDebuggingSoftware Debugging Infrastructure for Multicore Systems-on-ChipBojan Mihajlovic, Warren J. Gross, and Željko ŽilicNetworks-on-ChipOn Chip Interconnects for Multicore ArchitecturesPrasun Ghosal and Soumyajit PoddarRouting in Multicore NoCsPrasun Ghosal and Tuhin Subhra DasEfficient Topologies for 3-D Networks-on-ChipMohammad Ayoub Khan and Abdul Quaiyum AnsariNetwork-on-Chip Performance Evaluation Using an Analytical MethodSahar Foroutan, Abbas Sheibanyrad, and Frédéric PétrotBibliographyIndex