Scalable Multi-core Architectures Design Methodologies and Tools

As Moore’s law continues to unfold, two important trends have recently emerged. First, the growth of chip capacity is translated into a corresponding increase of number of cores. Second, the parallalization of the computation and 3D integration technologi

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Dimitrios Soudris • Axel Jantsch Editors

Scalable Multi-core Architectures Design Methodologies and Tools

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Editors Dimitrios Soudris Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering National Technical University of Athens Heroon Polytechneiou 9 157 80 Athens Zographou Campus Greece [email protected]

Axel Jantsch Department of Electronic Systems Royal Institute of Technology Forum 105 164 60 Kista Sweden [email protected]

ISBN 978-1-4419-6777-0 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6778-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6778-7 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2011938281 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Foreword

The objective of the European research programme in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is to improve the competitiveness of European industry and enable Europe to shape and master future developments in ICT. ICT is at the very core of the knowledge-based society. EU research funding has as target to strengthen Europe’s scientific and technology base and to ensure European leadership in ICT, help drive and stimulate product, service and process innovation through ICT use and value creation in Europe, and ensure that ICT progress is rapidly transformed into benefits for Europe’s citizens, businesses, industry and governments. Over the last years, the European Commission has constantly increased the amount of funding going to research in computing architectures and tools with special emphasis on multicore computing. Typically, European research funding in a new area (like multi/many cores) starts with funding for a Network of Excellence. Networks of Excellence are an instrument to overcome the fragmentation of the European research landscape in a given area by bringing together around a common research agenda the leading universities and research centers in Europe; their purpose is to reach a durable restructuring/shaping and integration of efforts and institutions. In the following years, a number of collaborative research projects may also be funded to address specific, more industrially oriented, research challenges in the same research area. It is important to note here that collaborative research projects are the major route of funding