Real World Multicore Embedded Systems

This book is the second in the Expert Guides series. Each Expert Guide provides a complete, solutions-oriented reference on an important area in embedded systems engineering, written by hand-picked experts in the field who have imparted their years of knowledge and experience. The embedded industry is turning to multicore to solve problems of performance and power consumption in many areas, including network, digital signal processing and graphics, but it is unfamiliar territory for most engineers and requires specific techniques to be used effectively. This Expert Guide gives all the methods, techniques and technologies to implement an embedded system using multicore. Written by experts with a solutions focus, this encyclopedic reference is 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, this guide takes engineers from architecture, through hardware implementation and software programming, to optimization and verification.