Real World Multicore Embedded Systems

This Expert Guide gives you the techniques and technologies in embedded multicore to optimally design and implement your embedded system. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference gives you an indispensable aid to tackling the day-to-day problems when building, optimizing and managing multicore embedded systems.

Following an embedded system design path from start to finish, our team of experts takes you from architecture, through hardware implementation and software programming, to optimization and verification, including debug.

With this book you will learn:

What motivates multicore

The architectural options and tradeoffs; when to use what

How to deal with the unique hardware challenges that multicore presents

How to manage the software infrastructure in a multicore environment

How to write effective multicore programs

How to port legacy code into a multicore system and partition legacy software

How to optimize both the system and software

The particular challenges of verifying and debugging multicore hardware and software

Road map of key problems/issues and references to their solution in the text

Review of core methods in the context of how to apply them (20% of the book) in embedded systems development

Examples demonstrate timeless implementation details

Short and to-the-point case studies show how key ideas can be implemented, the rationale for choices made, and design guidelines and trade-offs

Proven and practical techniques reflecting the authors expertise built from years of experience

Key expert advice on tackling critical issues based on years of experience

Tips and tricks

On-line support to include simulations tools, sample code, updates

References to tools and key literature