[HiWi] Multicore Chip Programming (for mobile devices)
Verfasst: Di 1. Mär 2011, 12:52
The SSS/ICE chair of ET offers several possibilities for HiWi jobs in the scope of embedded software for multicore chips.
Background
Heterogeneous multiprocessor chip architectures can provide high scalability and power efficiency. However, popularization of such architectures introduced a huge software productivity gap.
While hardware designers know how to scale number of cores integrated on the same chip the problem of how to effectively program such platforms still remains unclear.
One of the open issue is which programming model to select. C programming language was used for many decades and it's very familiar to embedded software developers.
However, C only allows to specify sequential computation and therefore doesn't match novel hardware architectures.
We are focusing on signal processing and multimedia applications that contain native algorithmic concurrency in form of isolated computation kernels communicating with each other via unidirectional first-in-first-out links.
This model can be efficiently used as a parallel specification to be mapped on the available processing cores.
Other, important design problems we are tackling are: parallelism extraction from C code, mapping to multicore architectures, automatic software synthesis to HW platforms (e. g. TI OMAP, Synopsys VP).
Contact:
If you would like to learn or improve your skills in one of the above mentioned fileds, contact us.
Refer to these pages for more details:
http://www.ice.rwth-aachen.de/institute ... va/theses/
http://www.ice.rwth-aachen.de/institute ... tudio-sss/
Or contact directly to Anastasia Stulova by email: stulova(at)ice.rwth-aachen.de
Background
Heterogeneous multiprocessor chip architectures can provide high scalability and power efficiency. However, popularization of such architectures introduced a huge software productivity gap.
While hardware designers know how to scale number of cores integrated on the same chip the problem of how to effectively program such platforms still remains unclear.
One of the open issue is which programming model to select. C programming language was used for many decades and it's very familiar to embedded software developers.
However, C only allows to specify sequential computation and therefore doesn't match novel hardware architectures.
We are focusing on signal processing and multimedia applications that contain native algorithmic concurrency in form of isolated computation kernels communicating with each other via unidirectional first-in-first-out links.
This model can be efficiently used as a parallel specification to be mapped on the available processing cores.
Other, important design problems we are tackling are: parallelism extraction from C code, mapping to multicore architectures, automatic software synthesis to HW platforms (e. g. TI OMAP, Synopsys VP).
Contact:
If you would like to learn or improve your skills in one of the above mentioned fileds, contact us.
Refer to these pages for more details:
http://www.ice.rwth-aachen.de/institute ... va/theses/
http://www.ice.rwth-aachen.de/institute ... tudio-sss/
Or contact directly to Anastasia Stulova by email: stulova(at)ice.rwth-aachen.de