Combining Processor Virtualization and Component-Based Engineering in C for Many-Core Heterogeneous Embedded MPSoCs

Erven Rohou 1 Andrea Carlo Ornstein 2 Ali Erdem Özcan 3 Marco Cornero 4
1 ALF - Amdahl's Law is Forever
Inria Rennes – Bretagne Atlantique , IRISA-D3 - ARCHITECTURE
2 ST-CORNAREDO - STMicroelectronics [Cornaredo]
3 ST-GRENOBLE - STMicroelectronics [Grenoble]
4 ST-Ericsson [Cornadero]
Abstract : The design of embedded systems is driven by strong constraints in terms of performance, silicon area and power consumption, as well as pressure on the cost and time-to-market. This has three consequences: 1) many-core systems are becoming mainstream, but there is still no satisfactory approach for distributing software applications on these platforms; 2) these systems integrate heterogeneous processors for efficiency reasons, thus programming them requires complex compilation environments; 3) hardware resources are precious and low-level languages are still a must to exploit them fully. These factors negatively impact the programmability of many-core platforms and limit our ability to address the challenges of the next decade. This paper devises a new programming approach leveraging processor virtualization and component-based software engineering paradigms to address these issues all together. We present a programming model based on C for developing fine grain component-based applications and a toolset that compiles them into a processor-independent bytecode representation that can be deployed on heterogeneous MPSoCs. We also discuss the effectiveness of this approach and present future directions that will have a key role in addressing the above challenges.
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Erven Rohou, Andrea Carlo Ornstein, Ali Erdem Özcan, Marco Cornero. Combining Processor Virtualization and Component-Based Engineering in C for Many-Core Heterogeneous Embedded MPSoCs. Second Workshop on Programming Models for Emerging Architectures, Sep 2010, Vienne, Austria. ⟨inria-00589691⟩

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