Transputer-like multicore parallel processing on the array of ARM Cortex-M0 microprocessors

Author

Takaya, K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Small ARM Cortex-M0 PC boards MARY linkable to form an array network for parallel processing were applied to realtime multi-tasking DSP. Multiple MARY boards coordinate the multi-tasking DSP process via four directional communication ports of (N, S, W, E) without using the shared memory like the Transputer (developed in 1980´s) works. The validity of the Transputer concept applied to a low-end embedded microprocessors was studied.

Keywords

digital signal processing chips; multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; transputers; ARM Cortex-M0 microprocessor array; MARY ARM Cortex-M0 PC boards; directional communication ports; low-end embedded microprocessors; multicore processors; multiple MARY boards; multitasking DSP process; realtime multitasking DSP; transputer concept; transputer-like multicore parallel processing; Arrays; Digital signal processing; Microprocessors; Multicore processing; Parallel processing; Program processors; ARM Cortex-M0 Microprocessor; Transputer; multicore processing; parallel computing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6334900

Filename

6334900