ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
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With the increasing number of cores integrated on a single chip, inter-core communication becomes more important in how to effectively support applications on multi-core platform. In this paper, we analyse the characteristics of multi-core tasks and classify processor cores into two categories based on their different functions: control core and computing core. According to the classification, we design a novel inter-core communication mechanism which includes three communication paths. With these paths, we can improve the utilization of multi-core by migrating the I/O part of applications from computing core to control core. Experiment results have proved the efficiency of them.