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Multiprocessor Systems on Chips (MPSoCs) are high-complexity, high-value semiconductor chips comprising general-purpose processors, hardware cores, DSPs, and memory blocks (Wolf, Proc. DAC, pp. 681–685, June 2004; Cesario et al., Proc. DAC, pp. 789–794, June 2002). Today, the commercial MPSoCs have several tens of cores on a chip (e.g., the NEC’s TCP/IP offload engine is powered by 10 Tensilica Xtensa processor cores, http://www.tensilica.com/html/pr_2003_05_12.html), and in the next few years technology will support the integration of several tens to hundreds of cores, making a large computational power available.
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Murali, S. (2009). Introduction. In: Designing Reliable and Efficient Networks on Chips. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9757-7_1
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