Industry leaders share their insights about processor and software-processing architectures and the impact they have on system and software development. Relevant architectures include microprocessors, microcontrollers, digital signal processors (DSPs), multiprocessor architectures, processor fabrics, coprocessors, and accelerators, plus embedded cores in FPGAs, SOCs, and ASICs. Moderated by EDN Technical Editor Robert Cravotta. en-us http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320.html?nid=3586 Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:05:37 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/690048469.html?nid=3586 This summer I participated as a judge at the Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009 finals in Egypt, and I am finally taking time to reflect on my experiences.... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1400047940.html?nid=3586 Let me make it clear right away that I don’t want to start another debate about the merits of various benchmarks (or deal with the infinite t... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/920046892.html?nid=3586 Robert’s insightful article on multicore taxonomy makes a good case for the need for standard ways to describe and discuss multicore technolo... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/510046651.html?nid=3586 In this article I would like to pick up on the processor and multiprocessor taxonomy themes that Robert Cravotta introduced in his article, and his... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1350046135.html?nid=3586 Multicore processors (processors with multiple processing cores) are being considered in more embedded designs. There are in general two drivers th... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1190045719.html?nid=3586 When programming multicore, debug becomes exponentially more difficult (or at least polynomially more difficult, for the literalists out there) wit... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1520045552.html?nid=3586 Before we take a look at the landscape of multicore programming and what is happening within it, there’s one thing that we need to bear in mi... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1160045516.html?nid=3586 One thing I find in this constantly innovating semiconn industry is that it is always harder to describe and specify what you need than it is to bu... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1670038367.html?nid=3586 Maybe it's just me, and maybe it's just a coincidence, but recently I keep having the same kind of discussion over and over with a number of embedd... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/680024668.html?nid=3586 Like many students, I worked my way through college in the foodservice industry. During my last few years as a student, I was a bartender at a popu... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/180022418.html?nid=3586 I tend to deliver a lot of presentations to embedded engineers, and to be frank, we are not the easiest bunch to keep engaged. Let's set aside the ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/170022417.html?nid=3586 Editor's note: EDN Welcomes a new contributor to this moderated blog, P.J. Tanzillo of National Instruments. His self-introduction follows, and you... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/580012258.html?nid=3586 Exactly 10 years ago, I read a cover article on the Scientific American (June 1997) titled "The microchip that rewires itself". The autho... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/570012257.html?nid=3586 Navanee's expertise is on both sides of the wall that separate the hardware and software worlds. The Xilinx Embedded Manager has a background in bo... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/110012011.html?nid=3586 The constant thread that runs through my days as an embedded-processor-applications manager is finding new, effective ways for our customers to red... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/100012010.html?nid=3586 David Katz has more than 15 years of experience in analog, digital, and embedded-systems design. Currently, he is Blackfin applications manager at ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1710011371.html?nid=3586 I will admit, I am new to the blog scene. So when, encouraged by EDN, I started off writing the first piece, I purposely chose a subject that I kne... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/660009266.html?nid=3586 We stand on the brink of a fundamental discontinuity in silicon process-technology unlike anything most of us have seen. For almost two decades, a ... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/650009265.html?nid=3586 Ray Simar is currently responsible for enhancing Texas Instruments digital signal processing solutions by developing advanced architectures for div... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/250008825.html?nid=3586 If the relationship between "market penetration" (forgive me, my last job was in marketing) and the cost of the development boards is so si... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/230008823.html?nid=3586 At the risk of revealing my age, I will tell you that by the time I was in my fourth year of high school back in Italy, some of the first Intel mic... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/220008822.html?nid=3586 Welcome to How We See Embedded Processing, in which technical and industry leaders share their thoughts and observations about embedded processor-b...