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The MPCore also includes an interrupt distributor that allocates interrupts
among the processors. Interrupt handling is not a major concern of traditional
scientific multiprocessors.
This section describes networks that can be used to build physically distributed
embedded systems for cars, airplanes, and so on. These systems are more
loosely coupled than multiprocessors—they generally do not use shared mem-
ory. The application is distributed over the processing elements, and some of the
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