Multicore Systems Design Methodology

Abstract

The strong demand for complex and high performance multicore system-on-chips (MCSoCs) requires quick turn around design methodology and high performance cores. Thus, there is a clear need for new methodologies supporting efficient and fast design of these systems on complex platforms implementing both hardware and software modules. This chapter starts first with an introduction about MCSoCs systems. Then a scalable core-based methodology for systematic design environment of application specific heterogeneous MCSoCs is given. The last part describes a high performance and low power synthesizable Queue core (QC-2) targeted for application specific multicore systems.