Hardware Multi-Processor Design for Highly-demanding Applications

This paper focuses on mastering the architecture development of hardware multi-processors for modern highly demanding applications. It presents the results of our analysis of the main issues to be addressed when designing multiprocessors for such applications, and discusses our new multiprocessor design method which developed to address these issues. We implemented the method in the form of an automatic design exploration tool. Using this tool we performed a large set of design experiments. The experiments demonstrated that without adequately addressing of the discussed design issues it is virtually impossible to construct high-quality hardware multi-processors, and that our design method adequately addresses them.