A European project to create a heterogeneous multi-core platform which can be reconfigured as a processor-based system for surveillance drones or driverless cars will present its results in Munich next month.

The FlexTiles project was launched in 2011 by a consortium of industries, universities and RTOs co-ordinated by Thalès.

The project will end in October and on 1 September in Munich will present results and offer a hands-on experience.

The efficient programming of multi-core architectures remains an unresolved issue and will be an ever greater challenge as we move towards many-core solutions with more than a thousand processor cores predicted by 2020.

The project, which is co-funded by the European Commission, has defined a programmable heterogeneous many-core platform with self-adaptive capabilities.

At the heart of the platform is a 3D stacked chip with a many-core layer and a reconfigurable layer.  A virtualisation layer on top of a kernel hides the heterogeneity and the complexity of the many-core platform from its programmer and fine-tunes the mapping of an application at runtime.

The virtualisation layer provides self-adaptation capabilities by dynamic relocation of application tasks to software on the many-core layer (made up of general purpose and DSP processors) or to hardware on the reconfigurable layer.

This self-adaptation is used to optimise load balancing, power consumption, hot spots and resilience to faulty modules.

A FlexTiles workshop will be held on 1 September within the International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications, FPL2014 in Munich, Germany.

By: DocMemory
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