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13 years ago

Multipreocessor , TSE and micro os II

Hi all, I'm working in a multiprocessor system, it contains 3 processors to process some data and each processor store the result in different shared on-chip memory (another processor ge...
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13 years ago

Yes you'll probably need to change a lot in order to use it with several processors. First you will need to protect access to the DMAs using a hardware semaphore, to be sure you'll never have two CPU trying to use a DMA at the same time. The other problem you will have is with packet reception. When you receive a packet, how do you know which CPU should handle it?

In order to help more you should explain why you have several processors and what their roles are in your system.