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 2010 Reed Business Information. Subject to its Terms of Use Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:29:28 PST http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1650052965.html?nid=3586 Do some inflection points make as much sound as one hand clapping? It seems that way. Why else would so many device manufacturers still use 8- or 1... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1640052964.html?nid=3586 Do some inflection points make as much sound as one hand clapping? It seems that way. Why else would so many device manufacturers still use 8- or 1... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/280052828.html?nid=3586 … or is the 16-bit microcontroller family dead? Over the years, the lines have blurred between the 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontroller fami... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/960052696.html?nid=3586 Robert Cravotta’s article on technology inflection points highlights the idea that electronics industry progress is often driven more by adde... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1370052537.html?nid=3586 After reading Robert Cravotta’s article on Recognizing technology’s inflections it brought to mind just how many changes our industry i... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1780052378.html?nid=3586 [Editor’s note: George Zimmerman’s post is copied here as a guest post to allow the guest posts on this topic to be gathered in one pla... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1000052300.html?nid=3586 [Editor’s note: Gene Frantz’s post is copied here as a guest post to allow the guest posts on this topic to be gathered in one place. C... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1240051524.html?nid=3586 As processing devices continue to get faster, smaller, and lower power, the ability to integrate more functionality into a single device is more ea... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/120051412.html?nid=3586 I recently participated in the IP-ESC 2009 conference in Grenoble, France. This event, which brings together many of the leading IP vendors and the... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/1040051304.html?nid=3586 DSP is all about multiplying, accumulating, and manipulating data for all kinds of interesting applications such as software defined radios, contro... http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320/post/100051210.html?nid=3586 [Editor’s note: Gene Frantz’s post is copied here as a guest post to allow the guest posts on this topic to be gathered in one place. C... 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...