Software/Hardware Codesign for Embedded Multicore Systems
A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Computer Science & Engineering".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 4175
Special Issue Editor
Interests: compiler design; automatic parallelization; hardware–software codesign; operating systems; embedded systems; dependability and fault tolerance
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Multicore systems are used as the central platform for the majority of systems ranging from tiny embedded applications to high-performance computing. The introduction of multiple processor cores has brought along numerous optimization opportunities for non-functional systems, but also poses new challenges for software developers, on system and application levels, when trying to exploit a platform’s potential. Some of these challenges include analyzing and enabling the predictability, synchronization, security, and the dependability of multicore systems.
An important challenge is the increased complexity and relevance of software for these systems, for example in autonomous cars and applications in the Internet of things (IoT). Accordingly, novel approaches are required to create codesigned software/hardware systems that are optimized for conflicting criteria, such as high computing performance and low energy consumption. These approaches are complicated by the fact that the hardware platforms become increasingly complex and heterogeneous due to the integration of DSPs, custom accelerators, GPGPUs, and FPGAs.
Accordingly, this Special Issue calls for innovative work to design, analyze, optimize the use, and solve the challenges of using multicore systems using software/hardware codesign approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following:
- HW/SW partitioning, interfaces and synthesis
- Handling heterogeneity in codesigned multicores
- Memory hierarchies, scratchpad, and caches in multicore systems
- Communication and synchronization for multicore systems
- Modeling, analysis, and multi-criteria optimizations of non-functional properties
- Security, dependability, and fault tolerance of SW/HW-codesigned multicores
- Automatic parallelization and compilation approaches for multicores
- SW/HW codesign for in- and near-memory computing
- Hypervisor and operating systems for multicores
- Architecture–compiler–operating system codesign
- Runtime adaptive and reconfigurable systems
- WCET/WCEC analysis for multicore systems
- Networks-on-Chip (NoCs) for codesigned multicore systems
- Design space exploration, virtual platforms, and cosimulation
- Multicore systems using approximate computing and/or analog components
Dr. Michael Engel
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Multicore systems
- Codesign approaches
- Heterogeneous systems
- Automatic parallelization
- Operating systems and runtime
- Accelerator architectures
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