Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips

9.4. Conclusions

The significant interest in MPSoC architectures in recent times has caused researchers to study architectural optimizations from a different perspective. With the full advance knowledge of the applications being implemented by the system, many design parameters can be optimized and/or customized. This is especially true of the memory subsystem, in which a vast array of different organizations can be employed for application-specific systems, and the designer is not restricted to the traditional cache hierarchy. The optimal memory architecture for an application-specific system can be significantly different from the typical cache hierarchy of processors. In this chapter, we outlined different memory architectures relevant to ...