The Multicore Association is an open membership organization that includes leading companies implementing products that embrace multicore technology. Our members represent vendors of processors, operating systems, compilers, development tools, debuggers, ESL/EDA tools, simulators, as well as application and system developers, and share the objective of defining and promoting open specifications.

Completed Projects:

The Multicore Communication API (MCAPI) has been completed. Click here to download.

Work in Progress:

The Multicore Programming Practices (MPP) working group has a goal to develop a multicore software programming guide for the industry that will aid in improving consistency and understanding of multicore programming issues. Initially the group is working on best practices leveraging the C/C++ language to generate a guide of genuine value to engineers who are approaching multicore programming. More information..

The Multicore Resource Management API (MRAPI) working group will specify essential application-level resource management capabilities needed by multicore applications (suitable for both SMP and AMP embedded multicore).

The Hypervisor working group will focus on a variety of areas that support hypervisor portability and multicore capabilities. These areas initially include resource management, load balancing, and debugging APIs.