Exploration of MPSoC monitoring and management systems

Abstract

A well suited monitoring and management system is becoming a necessity as the number of cores on single chip systems is increasing. Some works have proposed monitoring systems in order to enable off-chip system debugging, while some others have introduced a monitoring approach towards system self-awareness. The latter tries to facilitate self-management of NoC-based MPSoCs in different aspects, such as power, performance, fault tolerance, reconfigurability etc. In this paper, we discuss different solutions and present a qualitative comparison between them. Hierarchical agent-based management systems are also surveyed as a promising solution to cope with different fine and coarse grained demands of a real time network based many-core architectures.