The MOSART Consortium consists of:

Participant organisation name	Partner short name	Country
THALES Communications S.A. (Project Coordinator)	TCF	France
Institute of Communication and Computer Systems	ICCS	Greece
Kungliga Tekniska H?gskolan (Royal Institute of Technology)	KTH	Sweden
Interuniversitair Micro-Elektronica Centrum vsw	IMEC	Belgium
Valtion Teknillinen Tutkimuskeskus (Technical Research Center of Finland)	VTT	Finland
Intracom S.A. Telecom Solutions	ICOM	Greece
Synopsys	SYN	Belgium
Arteris S.A.	ART	France

The mission of the MOSART project is to define and develop an efficient SW/HW design environment encompassing a flexible, modular, multi-core on-chip platform and associated exploration methods and tools, to allow the scaling and optimisation of various applications in multimedia and wireless communications. The project will address two main challenges of the prevailing architectures:

i. The global interconnect and memory bottleneck due to a single, globally shared memory with high access times and power consumption.
ii. The difficulties in programming heterogeneous multi-core platforms, in particular in dynamically managing data structures in distributed memory.

MOSART aims to overcome these challenges through a multi-core architecture with distributed memory organisation, a Network-on-Chip (NoC) communication backbone and configurable processing cores that are scaled, optimised and customised together to achieve diverse energy, performance, cost and size requirements of different classes of applications. MOSART achieves this by:

i. Providing platform support for management of abstract data structures, including middleware services and a run-time data manager for NoC-based communication infrastructure.
ii. Developing tool support for parallelizing and mapping applications on the multi-core target platform and customizing the processing cores for the application.

The aim is to maintain Europe as a worldwide player in the field of efficient implementation of MPSoC architectures. These ambitious goals are achievable, because we bring advanced tools and platforms, i.e. a NoC platform and design space exploration tools from KTH, data management tools from ICCS, middleware for NoC services from ART, parallelizing and mapping tools from IMEC and processor configuration tools from VTT. SMEs ART and SYN contribute to tools and two system companies, TCF and ICOM, bring applications from future high data rate wireless access.