Multicore Programming Guide On GlobalSpec

From Texas Instruments Digital Signal Processors & ARM Microprocessors

As application complexity continues to grow, we have reached a limit on increasing
performance by merely scaling clock speed. To meet the ever-increasing processing
demand, modern System-On-Chip solutions contain multiple processing cores. The
dilemma is how to map applications to multicore devices. In this paper, we present a
programming methodology for converting applications to run on multicore devices.
We also describe the features of Texas Instruments DSPs that enable efficient
implementation, execution, synchronization, and analysis of multicore applications.

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