Title :
Prototype microprocessor LSI with scheduling support hardware for operating system on multiprocessor system
Author :
Nishimura, Naoki ; Sasaki, Takahiro ; Hironaka, Tetsuo
Author_Institution :
Graduate Sch. of Inf. Sci., Hiroshima City Univ., Japan
Abstract :
In this paper we describe the details of SSH (Scheduling Support Hardware) which makes it possible to use fine grain parallelism effectively in multiprocessor systems. The SSH supports fast and concurrent thread scheduling that is very important in fine grain parallel processing.
Keywords :
CMOS digital integrated circuits; large scale integration; microprocessor chips; multiprocessing systems; parallel architectures; processor scheduling; 0.35 micron; concurrent thread scheduling; fine grain parallelism; multiprocessor system; operating system; parallel processing; prototype microprocessor LSI; scheduling support hardware; Dispatching; Field programmable gate arrays; Hardware; Large scale integration; Microprocessors; Multiprocessing systems; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Prototypes; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Design Automation Conference, 2000. Proceedings of the ASP-DAC 2000. Asia and South Pacific
Conference_Location :
Yokohama, Japan
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5973-9
DOI :
10.1109/ASPDAC.2000.835063
