@CONFERENCE\{IMM2006-05062,
    author       = "T. Seceleanu and H. Tenhunen and A. Jerraya and A. Jantsch and G. Kuzmanov and K. Goosens and T. Collette and B. Candaele and L. Gide and J. Madsen and R. Lauwereins and L. Svensson and L. Benini and I. R. Nielsen and M. Coppola and P. Ienne and A. Ramirez and R. Ginosar",
    title        = "Multicore Processing and {ARTEMIS} - An incentive to develop the European Multiprocessor research",
    year         = "2006",
    booktitle    = "{IST} Conference, Helsinki, Finland",
    volume       = "",
    series       = "",
    editor       = "",
    publisher    = "",
    organization = "",
    address      = "",
    url          = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/5062-full.html",
    abstract     = "Even though multiprocessor architectures have been
developed for a long time now, the approach was
mostly focusing on multi-chip realizations.
Clustering computers or micro-processors on the
same board was the solution to manage complex
applications vs. performance requirements. It is only
in the recent period that technological advances
allow for a change of this paradigm towards on-chip
distributed platforms, or multi-core, or multi
processor system-on-chip (MPSOC).
A multiprocessor architecture may be defined as: onchip
clusters of heterogeneous functionality
modules, cooperating in the implementation of
multiple concurrent applications.
Architecturally, {MPSOC} combine characteristics
from both distributed (DS) and on-chip systems
(SOC). However, addressing issues from either one
of these later paradigms will not necessarily bring
optimal benefits to {MPSOC}. For instance, in
{MPSOC,} differently to a “traditional” {SOC} view,
concurrency at all levels plays a deterministic role,
while problems such as power consumption,
addressable separately in the nodes of a {DS,} must be
unitary considered. Thus, distinct research and
development issues must be defined for {MPSOC,} 
building on the indispensable experience in {DS} and
{SOC,} and other related domains.
Primarily motivated by market concerns, and also by
the promises of the available billion transistor
technology, {MPSOC} is increasingly becoming the
preferred target for embedded systems (ES)
implementations. Furthermore, the possibility to fit a
huge number of different applications onto such a
platform, poses important challenges to the
realization of such systems. Leaving long time ago
the “application specific” approach, the “domain
specific” solution will soon also become insufficient
as an application mapping paradigm, due to the
increasing interaction between separate areas of the
same industrial field, or even between distinct
industrial domains (such as photo-mobile-phones, in
car / on plane / on train multimedia systems, to cite
just a few of the most popular ones)."
}