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. Benefits of Membership»

The Multicore Association's roadmap consists of an extensive set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that support multicore communications, resource management, task management, and debug facilities. These APIs will provide a foundation for a multitude of services and functions including load balancing, power management, reliability, and quality of service, elements that are also on the consortium's roadmap.
Software development tools will be able to take advantage of the unified APIs, independent of specific multicore systems, and will provide support for other MCA roadmap elements such as programming languages and models, hypervisors, design environments, and application generators.

COMPLETED PROJECTS

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WORK IN PROGRESS

The Tools Infrastructure (TIWG) working group aims to define a common data format and create standards-based mechanisms to share data across diverse and non-interoperable development tools, specifically related to the interfaces between profilers and analysis/visualization tools. The TIWG also plans to collaborate with the CE Linux Forum on a reference implementation for a de-facto trace data format standard that TIWG will define. more»

The Multicore Programming Practices (MPP)working group is developing 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»

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

The Multicore Virtualization working group is developing standards-based mechanisms that provide users of embedded virtualization solutions with increased portability and interoperability of applications and middleware between different virtualization vendors. Specifically, the working group focus areas include services such as secure and efficient inter-virtual machine communication, distributed device I/O, virtual machine management, para-virtualization and migration and in-service upgrade of virtual machines. more»