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A Toolflow for Parallelization of Embedded Software in Multicore DSP Platforms

Authors:

Miguel Angel Aguilar,

Rainer Leupers,

Nikolaos KavvadiasAuthors Info & Claims

SCOPES '15: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

Pages 76 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/2764967.2771936

Published: 01 June 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Multicore Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) have gained relevance in recent years due to the emergence of data-intensive applications, such as wireless communications and multimedia processing on mobile devices, which demand increased computational performance at a low cost and power consumption. Programming these platforms is still a big challenge, posing a multitude of software design issues. In this paper, we present a toolflow to guide developers in the process of programming multicore DSPs. We evaluate the applicability of our approach by parallelizing a set of realistic embedded benchmarks on a commercial multicore DSP platform from Texas Instruments.

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Cited By

Leupers RAguilar MCastrillon JSheng W(2018)Software Compilation Techniques for Heterogeneous Embedded Multi-Core SystemsHandbook of Signal Processing Systems10.1007/978-3-319-91734-4_28(1021-1062)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91734-4_28
Aguilar MEusse JRay PLeupers RAscheid GSheng WSharma P(2017)Towards Parallelism Extraction for Heterogeneous Multicore Android DevicesInternational Journal of Parallel Programming10.1007/s10766-016-0479-545:6(1592-1624)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10766-016-0479-5

Index Terms

A Toolflow for Parallelization of Embedded Software in Multicore DSP Platforms
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Concurrent computing methodologies
    1. Concurrent programming languages
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Concurrent programming languages

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SCOPES '15: Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Software and Compilers for Embedded Systems

June 2015

147 pages

ISBN:9781450335935

DOI:10.1145/2764967

General Chair:
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Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

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Leupers RAguilar MCastrillon JSheng W(2018)Software Compilation Techniques for Heterogeneous Embedded Multi-Core SystemsHandbook of Signal Processing Systems10.1007/978-3-319-91734-4_28(1021-1062)Online publication date: 14-Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91734-4_28
Aguilar MEusse JRay PLeupers RAscheid GSheng WSharma P(2017)Towards Parallelism Extraction for Heterogeneous Multicore Android DevicesInternational Journal of Parallel Programming10.1007/s10766-016-0479-545:6(1592-1624)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10766-016-0479-5

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