How to Effectively Program Reconfigurable Multi-Core Embedded Systems?

The continued increase of the number of available transistors on a die has lead to the emergence of the many-core and multi-core computing architectures. These architectures promise the potential for orders of magnitude performance improvements over single core solutions through sheer concurrency. The abundance of transistors also enable the development of heterogeneous and (dynamically) reconfigurable architectures targeting selected markets such as real-time and/or embedded high-performance computing through a mix of traditional and customized cores.