Maximizing Multicore Efficiency with Navigator Runtime

Maximizing Multicore Efficiency with Navigator Runtime

Multicore processors bring new challenges to programmers. More than half of the cost of a multicore project comes from software development. Multicore programming is particularly challenging with Asymmetric Multicore Processors (AMP) where different types of processing elements, such as RISC and DSP cores, reside in the same device. This is primarily due to minimal or no operating system (OS) support for resource management and load balancing, which results in poor scalability and inefficient resource utilization.