The DRACON Embedded Many-Core: Hardware-Enhanced Run-Time Management Using a Network of Dedicated Control Nodes

Autor:	Alberto Garcia-Ortiz, Daniel Gregorek
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Exploit business.industry Computer science Message passing Scheduling (computing) Software SystemC Embedded system Management system Scalability Task manager business computer Computer hardware computer.programming_language
Zdroj:	ISVLSI
DOI:	10.1109/isvlsi.2015.90
Popis:	Many-core systems provide abundant computing power for parallel applications. The run-time manager of an embedded system has to efficiently exploit the available resources while guaranteeing a high responsiveness. We propose a dedicated hardware infrastructure to improve the scalability and responsiveness of a run-time task manager. The hardware enhancements constitute a hierarchy of global and local control nodes which communicate by means of message passing. The global nodes facilitate a distributed task manager which performs the task scheduling and a flexible task synchronization scheme at run-time. A low-latency interface between the run-time system and the processing cores is provided by the local nodes. Based on simulations using a SystemC model, we demonstrate the advantages of our approach in terms of application performance. The design feasibility is substantiated by means of gate-level analysis. We compare our results against state-of-the-art software and hardware-based run-time management systems.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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