Evaluating Key Certification Aspects of Multicore Platforms for Safety Critical Avionics Applications

High performance, low power consumption and small footprint requirements imposed by the embedded market on the processor industry is causing a definite move away from single-core processors to multicore processors. Multicore processors have been deemed as the future of Size, Weight, and Power (SWaP) constrained applications like military and avionics. They provide higher performance (MHz/W) at lower power. They also allow consolidation of multiple functions/ applications onto a single platform.