Sarno, LaurenHwu, Wen-mei W.Lund, CraigLevy, MarkusLarus, James R.Reinders, JamesCameron, GordonLennard, ChrisYoshimori, Takashi2013-12-232013-12-232013-12-23200710.1109/DAC.2007.375240https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/98687Are multi-core SoCs being held back by the lack of adequate system design and software development tools? Multi-cores supply the advantages of flexible software-defined architectures, but support for system optimization, integration and verification is lacking. Are we taking advantage of new compute density, application partitioning and parallelism? What is enabled with multi-core vs. multiprocessing? How do we accommodate symmetric and asymmetric multiprocessing? We need profiling tools, retained legacy code and a deep understanding of hardware / software interaction.text::conference output::conference proceedings::conference paper