uVMP: Virtualizable multi-core platform

This paper aims to show the design and prototyping of a multi-core platform that includes hardware resources to multi-core embedded processor virtualization. The virtualization process may configure the cores´ address space and the association of cores to create independents groups of cores inside the platform. The platform was prototyped and validated through simulation of applications devoted to explore its main characteristics. The results have proven that the proposed architecture is useful to run concurrent applications, demanding different memory organization. The proposed architecture can achieve 67 MHz in an FPGA implementation running simultaneously eight computing tasks and one management task. Application execution shows that the proposed architecture is able to provide 94,9 MIPS (Millions of Instruction Per Second) of measured performance.