Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems

Chapter 3. Multi-core Processors and Embedded

Key Points

• Performance is the main motivation for employing multi-core processors in embedded systems; however, the demand for performance is balanced by the need to keep power utilization within reasonable limits.

• Many applications in the embedded market segments can benefit from the increased performance offered by multi-core processors.

• Industry-standard benchmarks provide single-core, multi-core, and power performance information that can help characterize embedded processors. This is a beneficial step before committing to a particular processor architecture for your embedded development project.

Increased integration has been a hallmark of processor evolution for many years. Similar to how different ...