LiAnLab出席中国2011Linux内核开发者大会并发言.pdfVIP

The World Leader in High Performance Signal Processing Solutions Heterogeneous Multicore for blackfin implementation Open Platform Solutions Steven Miao Outline Modern SoC architecture Generic AMP/IPC framework overview Intercore communication protocol Userspace API for inter-processor communication(MCAPI) Q A 2 The emergence of multicore With the ever-increasing demands for devices, multicore solutions are becoming more prevalent. Performance power management Costs 3 Ingredients for multicore development Soc architecture Homogenous cores Heterogeneous cores Operating system, multicore processing Smp Amp Hybrid Application A collection of threads or tasks Inter-processor communications or message passing mechanism 4 Today’s SoC architecture 5 Different Types of multicore Homogeneous multicore - Multicore chips coming to market all have the same instruction sets/data structures. Heterogeneous multicore – At least one processor in a multicore architecture is different, different instruction sets/data structures. 6 Multicore processing AMP - A separate OS, or a separate instantiation of the same OS, runs on each CPU. SMP - A single instantiation of an OS manages all CPUs simultaneously, and applications can float to any of them. 7 Multi-core usage Performance Increase system performance by implementing multicore hardware and software parallelism. Migration Avoid costly porting and software rewrite efforts Usability Enhance an existing real-time device by adding user-interface features on a general purpose operating system. Reliability /security Improve system robustness by protecting and isolating operating environments from each other. Even Safety-Critical Software 8 Programming model on heterogeneous multi-core