Real World Multicore Embedded Systems: Chapter 13. Hardware Accelerators

The performance of critical compute-intensive operations in embedded systems can be significantly improved by replacing software execution with hardware accelerators. Depending on how this is done, however, it may add concurrency even to a single-core system. This chapter discusses the different ways in which hardware accelerators can be designed and managed, and how the opportunity for concurrency can be exploited while avoiding the possible pitfalls of parallel execution.