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MULTICORE PROCESSOR

Outline
 Over view
 Design
 Performance
 Advantages and disadvantages
 Examples
 Conclusion
 Bibliography
Multicore Processor Overview

 A multi-core processor is composed of two or more independent cores.


One can describe it as an integrated circuit which has two or more
individual processors 
 Each core has it’s own complete set of resources, and may share the on-
die cache layers
Windows Task Manager

Core 2

Core 1
Why Using Multicore Processor
Drawbacks of Unicore Processors

Difficult to make single-core clock frequencies


even higher.
Many new applications are multithreaded
Deeply pipelined circuits :
Heat problems
Speed of light problems
Difficult design and verification
Large design teams necessary
Server farms need expensive air-conditioning
MOORE’S LAW

Moore's law describes a
long-term trend in the history
of computing hardware. 
The number
of transistors that can be placed
inexpensively on an integrated
circuit has doubled
approximately every two years.
he trend has continued for
more than half a century and is
not expected to stop until 2015
or later.
DESIGN
Single-core CPU Chip

CPU chip
register file
A The single core
L
U System bus

bus interface
Multi-core architecture
Replicate multiple processor cores on single die

Core 1 Core 2 Core 3 Core 4


Register file Register file Register file Register file
A A A A
L L L L
U U U U

Bus interface

Multi-core CPU chip


Multi-Core Processor Architecture of
AMD
Architecture of Dual-Core Intel
Processor
Two physical core in a package
Each with it’s own execution
resources
Each with it’s own L1 cache
Both cores share the L2 cache
Truly parallel multi-tasking and
threaded execution. Increased
throughput..
Multi-core CPU chip

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Cores run in parallel
thread1 thread2 thread3 thread4

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Within each core, threads are time-sliced (just like
on a uniprocessor)

Several threads Several threads Several threads Several threads

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Performance

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