DSP for Embedded and Real-Time Systems

Chapter 16

Multicore Software Development for DSP

Michael Kardonik and Akshitij Malik

Chapter Outline

Introduction

Multcore programming models

Multiple-single-cores

Advantages of multiple-single-cores

Disadvantages of multiple-single-cores

Characteristics of multiple-single-cores applications

True-multiple-cores

Advantages of true-multiple-cores

Disadvantages of true-multiple-cores

Porting guidelines

Design considerations

Motion JPEG case study

JPEG encoding

Design considerations

Implementation details

Scheduling

Inter-core communication

Input and output

Conclusions

Introduction

Symmetrical multi-processing (SMP) is generally used to refer to a hardware system in which identical processors have equal access to the same memory subsystem. In ...