Design and development of low cost multicore processor for parallel computation

Abstract

This paper presents the design of RISC architecture based multicore processor using the Xilinx® development platform for designing and Spartan-6 FPGA for the implementation of the architecture. The light weight multithreaded kernel module is implemented on the top of the architecture to demonstrate the parallel programming potentials on the same. A task assigned to the processor is managed by the OS which also controls the traffic At the end of the paper benchmarking and profiling results are mentioned, which bring to the close that the design mentioned in this paper gives better results with its counterparts.