Modern system-on-chip (SoC) design shows a clear trend toward integration of multiple processor cores on a single chip. Designing a multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSOC) requires an understanding of the various design styles and techniques used in the multiprocessor. Understanding the application area of the MPSOC is also critical to making proper tradeoffs and design decisions.
Multiprocessor Systems-on-Chips covers both design techniques and applications for MPSOCs. Design topics include multiprocessor architectures, processors, operating systems, compilers, methodologies, and synthesis algorithms, and application areas covered include telecommunications and multimedia. The majority of the chapters were collected from presentations made at the International Workshop on Application-Specific Multi-Processor SoC held over the past two years. The workshop assembled internationally recognized speakers on the range of topics relevant to MPSOCs. After having refined their material at the workshop, the speakers are now writing chapters and the editors are fashioning them into a unified book by making connections between chapters and developing common terminology.
*Examines several different architectures and the constraints imposed on them
*Discusses scheduling, real-time operating systems, and compilers
*Analyzes design trade-off and decisions in telecommunications and multimedia applications

Wayne Wolf is Professor, Rhesea "Ray P. Farmer Distinguished Chair in EmbeddedComputing, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was with Princeton University and AT&TBell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. inelectrical engineering from Stanford University. He is well known for his research in theareas of hardware/software co-design, embedded computing, VLSI CAD, and multimediacomputing systems. He is a fellow of the IEEE and ACM. He co-founded severalconferences in the area, including CODES, MPSoC, and Embedded Systems Week. Hewas founding co-editor-in-chief of Design Automation for Embedded Systems andfounding editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems. He hasreceived the ASEE Frederick E. Terman Award and the IEEE Circuits and Society Education Award. He is also series editor of the Morgan Kaufmann Series in Systems onSilicon.

Table of Contents1. The What, Why, and How of MPSoCs* Part I. Hardware2. Techniques for Designing energy-Aware MPSoCs* 3. Networks on Chips*4. Architecture of Embedded Microprocessors* 5. Performance and Flexibility for Multiple-Processor SoC Design*6. MPSOC Performance Modeling and Analysis*7. Design of Communication Architectures for High-Performance and Energy Efficient System-on-Chips* 8. Design space exploration of on-chip networks*Part II. Software9. Memory Systems and Compiler Support fo MPSoC Architectures*10. A SystemC-Based Abstract Real-Time Operating System Model for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip*11.Cost-Efficient Mapping of Dynamic Concurrent Tasks in Embedded Real-Time Multimedia Systems*12. ILP-Based Resource-Aware Compilation*Part III. Methodologies and Applications13. Component-Based Design for Multiprocessor System-on-chip*15. Models of Computation for Systems-on-Chips* 16. Metropolis: A Design Envrionemnet for Heterogenous Systems* Glossary*Bibliography*Contributors