The CORBA reference guide: understanding the Common Object Request Broker Architecture
The CORBA reference guide: understanding the Common Object Request Broker Architecture
Parallel programming in OpenMP
Parallel programming in OpenMP
The Real-Time Specification for Java
The Real-Time Specification for Java
Stream-Oriented FPGA Computing in the Streams-C High Level Language
FCCM '00 Proceedings of the 2000 IEEE Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
X10: an object-oriented approach to non-uniform cluster computing
OOPSLA '05 Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
Sequoia: programming the memory hierarchy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Sequoia: programming the memory hierarchy
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE conference on Supercomputing
Parallel Programmability and the Chapel Language
International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications
Intel threading building blocks
Intel threading building blocks
Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Java Technologies for Real-Time and Embedded Systems
Exposing non-standard architectures to embedded software using compile-time virtualisation
CASES '09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
Building heterogeneous reconfigurable systems with a hardware microkernel
CODES+ISSS '09 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on Hardware/software codesign and system synthesis
The multikernel: a new OS architecture for scalable multicore systems
Proceedings of the ACM SIGOPS 22nd symposium on Operating systems principles
Proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Software & Compilers for Embedded Systems
Tool-supported model-driven validation process for system architectures
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems
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Within the domain of embedded systems, hardware architectures are commonly characterised by application-specific heterogeneity. Systems may contain multiple dissimilar processing elements, non-standard memory architectures, and custom hardware elements. The programming of such systems is a considerable challenge, not only because of the need to exploit large degrees of parallelism but also because hardware architectures change from system to system. To solve this problem, this paper proposes the novel combination of a new industry standard for communication across multicore architectures (MCAPI), with a minimal-overhead technique for targeting complex architectures with standard programming languages (Compile-Time Virtualisation). The Multicore Association have proposed MCAPI as an industry standard for on-chip communications. MCAPI abstracts the on-chip physical communication to provide the application with logical point-to-point unidirectional channels between nodes (software thread, hardware core, etc.). Compile-Time Virtualisation is used to provide an extremely lightweight implementation of MCAPI, that supports a much wider range of architectures than its specification normally considers. Overall, this unique combination enhances programmability by abstracting on-chip communication whilst also exposing critical parts of the target architecture to the programming language.