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D A T A S H E E T
SOLUTION FEATURES:
■■ Configure and deploy multiple
operating systems across homogeneous or heterogeneous
processor cores
■■ Consolidation of the system –
including discrete components
■■ Supports native, virtualized, and
trusted configurations of multiple
operating systems

The Mentor Embedded Multicore Framework enables a broad portfolio of solutions in
complex homogeneous or heterogeneous cores.

Addressing Hardware complexity and Advanced
Multicore Architectures
Today’s complex system-on-chip (SoC) architectures are combining more
application-class and microcontroller-class cores than ever before. As a result,
consolidation of heterogeneous operating environments on a single device is
much harder to achieve – and more difficult for developers to utilize the
underlying hardware.
While symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) operating architectures allow load
balancing of the application across homogeneous processors within the
multicore infrastructure, they do not scale to heterogeneous cores. Further,
there is a lack of accepted standards and software design paradigms to take
full advantage of asymmetric multiprocessing (AMP), even on homogeneous
multicore SoCs. Having certain mechanisms in place would enable AMP
applications to leverage parallelism offered by the multicore configuration.
Embedded virtualization allows the mixing and matching of SMP and AMP
environments and supervises some of the operating systems while managing
payload on the cores.
Introducing the Mentor Embedded Multicore Framework
To address these design complexities, Mentor Graphics has created the
Mentor® Embedded Multicore Framework allowing developers to configure
and deploy multiple operating systems and applications across homogeneous
or heterogeneous processors. This comprehensive framework enables
developers to manage the many challenges associated with inter-process
communication (IPC), resource management and sharing, process control,
debugging, and application optimization within a multicore environment
by supporting native, virtualized, and trusted configurations of multiple
operating systems.
The Framework allows software developers to control the boot-up and shut
down of individual cores on a SoC, thus allowing applications to maximize
compute performance or minimize power consumption based on individual
use case scenarios.

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■■ Simplified booting
■■ System-wide communication
■■ System level visualization of
heterogeneous system behavior
■■ Common toolchain supports the
entire solution enabling heterogeneous system development,
debug, and analysis

BENEFITS:
Enables consolidation
Leverage multiple operating systems
within a multicore design while
easily managing payloads across
processor cores
Manage compute performance
and power consumption
Developers are given control over
boot-up and which cores to shut
down on a SoC, also helping to
manage power consumption
Locate and fix problems deep in
the system
Powerful tools allow developers to
see deep inside multiple cores and
fix problems quickly on a single
common timeline
Part of a larger multicore ecosystem
Mentor’s broad portfolio of runtime
environments, integrated tools,
services, and partner technologies
allow projects to start quickly and
innovation to begin earlier