High-Performance Embedded Computing

46 Chapter 1 Embedded Computing

task parallelism Task-level parallelism can be found in many applications. It is particularly

important in embedded systems because these systems often perform several

different types of computation on data streams. In many ways, task-level paral-

lelism is easy to exploit since tasks can be allocated to processors. However,

task structure is not easily conveyed in C; programmers often resort to program-

ming conventions combined with calls to interprocess communication routines

to define tasks. More abstract programming models may help clarify the task

structure of an application.

static versus

dynamic

Some types of p ...