WarmPie: A bare-bones implementation of message passing interface for embedded many-cores

Kui Wang, Erno Salminen, Jari Nurmi, Tapani Ahonen

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    Abstract

    In this paper we present a message-passing based interface, WarmPie, to simplify data communication and management on a Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC). WarmPie defines a subset of Message Passing Interface (MPI) library routines. We provide C language implementation of those routines on a 9-core MPSoC. WarmPie offers an abstract view of the MPSoC to facilitate effortless integration of software to hardware. In one use case study of developing a ring communication program on the MPSoC, software development effort is reduced by a factor of 3.75 due to using WarmPie. The application using WarmPie is fully compatible with a reference MPI environment on Linux. WarmPie has a small memory footprint of 7.3KB per core. Although data transmission latency has increased due to using the interface, the overhead is amortized when transferring a bigger payload in one message.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publication2015 11th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)
    PublisherIEEE
    Pages33-36
    Number of pages4
    ISBN (Print)978-1-4799-8229-5
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2015
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    EventConference on Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics -
    Duration: 1 Jan 1900 → …

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    ConferenceConference on Ph. D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics
    Period1/01/00 → …

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