Serviços de comunicação diferenciados em sistemas multiprocessados em chip baseados em redes intra-chip

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Carara, Everton Alceu
• Orientador(a): Moraes, Fernando Gehm
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul; Porto Alegre
• Palavras-chave em Português: INFORMÁTICA; MULTIPROCESSADORES; REDES DE COMPUTADORES; REDES DE COMUNICAÇÃO DE DADOS
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10923/1593

Multiprocessor systems on chip (MPSoCs) are being considered as a probable standard for implementing future embedded systems. The computational power of these platforms allows the simultaneous execution of several applications with different requirements. The use of networks-on-chip (NoCs) as the communication infrastructure in these platforms is a reality in academic research and industrial projects, as well NoCs are considered an alternative to traditional buses, offering as major advantages scalability and support to multiple parallel communications. However, the motivation for their use in SoCs (Systems-on-Chip) goes beyond these evident advantages, once NoCs can support several communication services with different levels of quality. Since applications running on MPSoCs are often composed by several communicating tasks, efficient support to communications has a key role on the performance of these and is a strategic area in the development of multiprocessed platforms. Many works have been conducted in the last decade in NoC and MPSoC areas, however few of these address the gap between the network (communication services) and application levels within NoC-based MPSoCs. This work aims at the implementation of different communication services at the network level and its availability at the application level, in this way bridging the gap between these levels by a better hardware/software integration. The followed design methodology starts with the implementation of specific mechanisms at the network level to support differentiated communication services. These services are exposed at the application level through primitives that compose a communication API (Application Programming Interface). The purpose of the approach is to offer to application developers’ software support to meet application communication requirements, especially to those applications with time constraints. The performed evaluations show the operation and the benefits obtained through the use of the implemented services, besides identifying some scenarios where these do not fit so well.