Performance of Multiprocessor Architecture using Nios II Processor

This paper presents the performance of multiprocessor architecture for an embedded system. Firstly, we will design a three-core embedded system using Nios II processors with shared memories on FPGA platform. Secondly, we implement the partition sequential program and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) on multiprocessor system and measure exactly the execution time of these algorithms. As a result, using multiprocessor, the execution time for sequential program is three times faster and it is also six times faster for FFT algorithm. The result is the evidence to show the performance of multiprocessor architecture on executing programs. KeywordsMultiprocessor Architecture, embedded system, Nios II processors , FPGA