Reliable hand-top many-core SW-SoC platform

Abstract

Rapid industry reform from desktop era to mobile computing has led to the widespread adoption of application processors throughout the IT industry. While the application processor market has become mainstream in recent years, it is still struggling for more performance while maintaining portability in several areas such as computer vision and mixed-reality. The semiconductor industry looks to satisfy these market requirements with many-core hand-top supercomputing. The emergence of many-core computing as the next step in the progression of the industry presents several design challenges for system architects: reasonable power consumption, software programming, core reliability, and core utilization for scalable performance. We review current developments of application processor SoCs and give a forecast for future many-core the SW-SoC platform.