SoPHy
SoPHy(Software Platform for HYbrid resource management).About
As incessant demand of higher computing power makes a many-core accelerator become a major computing resource in a System-on-Chip, a variety of many-core architectures and resource management techniques have been proposed recently. They usually use a high-level simulation model to estimate the performance without knowing how much actual performance will be deviated from the estimation. SoPHy is a software platform that implements a hybrid resource management technique for a homogeneous many-core architecture. To evaluate the system performance more accurately before SoC fabrication, we run it on a virtual prototyping system. The actual implementation enables us to investigate the overheads involved in the hybrid resource management technique in detail, which was not possible in high-level simulation.