AN ANALYSIS OF COMMUNICATION ARCHITECTURES FOR VARIOUS AVAILABLE MULTI-CORE SYSTEMS

Abstract

Modern sophisticated multimedia-like applications are extremely useful, but require hardware platforms that can provide high computational power. Conventional single core systems were capable of handling computationally expensive applications up to a certain extent, but increased clock frequencies resulted in high power consumption. Thus the need for multi-core based systems was realized. The overall performance of such systems depends not only on the individual processor cores but also on the underlying communication network between them. This paper presents an analysis of communication architecture for various available multi-core systems.