SMYLE Project: Toward high-performance, low-power computing on manycore-processor SoCs

This paper introduces a manycore research project called SMYLE (Scalable ManYcore for Low Energy computing). The aims of this project are: 1) proposing a manycore SoC architecture and developing a suitable programming and execution environment, 2) designing a domain specific manycore system for emerging video mining applications, and 3) releasing developed software tools and FPGA emulation environments to accelerate manycore research and development in the community. The project started in December 2010 with full support from the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).