Software Development for Embedded Multi-core Systems

Glossary

1U

Standard unit of measurement for server systems and the amount of space used vertically in a server rack. Equal to 1.75 inches.

Abstraction

General term used to describe techniques of taking advantage of a particular technology without the need to manage as many low level details as previous techniques.

Accelerator

Specialized integrated circuits used to increase processor core performance on specific applications. In some cases, the accelerator can be considered a separate processor core with its own ISA.

Address-space Compression

Virtualization challenge caused by the fact that the virtualization implementation and guest OSes each assume they are managing the entire address range.

Advanced Optimization

Compiler optimization that includes ...