Effective Processing Solutions for Heterogeneous Multiprocessing

Use of Homogeneous multi-processing—multiple instances of the same CPU—in compute engines for servers and workstations began in the 1990’s. By the mid-2000’s, they began appearing in PCs and shipping in high end consumer products. In the system-on-chip (SoC) arena, homogenous multiprocessing began to appear in the early part of this decade as a means of adding applications processors to offload the host.  This was necessitated by increasing processing requirements appearing on embedded systems:  phones that not only provided voice but also handled instant messaging, full web browsing, video and still camera, and even music playback.  Other embedded applications likewise began adding on functions that demanded increasing computational performance:  home-networking gear such as broadband gateways and Wi-Fi routers; storage controllers for hard drives and Flash-memory drives; digital TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, and set-top boxes; and ASICs for communications infrastructure and enterprise routers.

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