Design issues in composition kernels for highly functional embedded systems
Hiromasa Shimada, Yuki Kinebuchi, Tsung-Han Lin, Alexandre Courbot, Tatsuo Nakajima · 2011
Recent embedded systems are dramatically increasing their features to satisfy a user's demanding requirements. In traditional approaches, each feature uses a dedicated processor to be implemented, but the approach increases the cost to develop highly functional embedded systems. A multi-core processor offers a new opportunity to solve the dilemma because various functionalities can be implemented on one multi-core processor. While the number of functionalities is increased, we can just add more cores in the multi-core processor. However, we need a desirable software platform to implement a large number of functionalities on a multi-core processor for developing highly functional embedded systems.