heterogeneous multicore processor technologies for embedded systems - kunio uchiyama fumio arakawa hironori kasahara tohru nojiri hideyuki noda yasuhiro tawara akio idehara kenichi iwata hiroaki shikano

to satisfy the higher requirements of digitally converged embedded systems, this book describes heterogeneous multicore technology that uses various kinds of low-power embedded processor cores on a single chip. with this technology, heterogeneous parallelism can be implemented on an soc, and greater flexibility and superior performance per watt can then be achieved. this book defines the heterogeneous multicore architecture and explains in detail several embedded processor cores including cpu cores and special-purpose processor cores that achieve highly arithmetic-level parallelism. the authors developed three multicore chips (called rp-1, rp-2, and rp-x) according to the defined architecture with the introduced processor cores. the chip implementations, software environments, and applications running on the chips are also explained in the book.