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• Multicore mobile processor shipments on rise
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Jan 7, 2010
  Multicore mobile processor shipments on rise According to...see a high growth rate as the architecture moves to multicore configurations. By Suzanne Deffree, Managing... The year ahead will be key for the adoption of multicore processors in netbooks and smartphones, according...a higher growth rate as the architecture moves to multicore configurations. By 2013, almost 88% of the processors sold into the mobile market segment will be multicore processors, the company reports. “Integration of...says Jim McGregor, an In-Stat analyst. “While multicore dominates in the high-performance mobile-computing...
• VxWorks 6.8 adds support for multicore CPUs from many vendors.
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel, Contributing Editor | Date: Jan 8, 2010
  VxWorks 6.8 adds support for multicore CPUs from many vendors. WindRiver enhances symmetric...Corp., but it is not shirking in its support of multiple multicore processor vendors in the latest instantiation of the VxWorks...core dump file and analysis, and enhanced debugging for multicore and multiple-OS environments.
• Tile64 - 2007 EDN Microprocessor/Microcontroller Directory - Details on hundreds of processors and
  
  ...900 MHz. Ç‚ Tilera based the Tile64 family on a tiled multicore architecture with a mesh-based on-chip interconnect...the architecture beyond hundreds of cores. In addition to multicore processors, Tilera also offers turnkey PCIe appliance boards and a suite of multicore software-development tools. Ç‚ ADVERTISEMENT Ç‚ Click...
• Lessons from the last mile
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Nov 26, 2009
  ...software on a CPU. This time, though, the CPU is a multicore cluster with both general-purpose processors and specific...says. “As the control and data planes merge, we see multicore chips with datapath accelerators—a queue manager, a crypto...chip involves a lot of work. “Traffic management in a multicore chip creates access issues,” warns Satish Sathi, senior...
• Voices on EDN: Electronic Design, News, Strategy
  
  ...approach to hardware/software co-design and the challenge of multicore programming. Voices: Pentek’s Rodger Hosking: next-generation-radio...12/2008 EDA leader discusses 'Frankenstein' flows, multicore trends, and the economy's impact on IC design. Voices...
• Monta Vista debuts vertical-market optimizations of Linux 6
  
  Author: Loring Wirbel, Contributing Editor | Date: Oct 29, 2009
  ...be offered for industrial automation, Android platforms, multicore networking, automotive, multifunction printers, and portable...option, a networking option also featured for automotive. Multicore networking includes library support for optimizing multiple...
• Processor-based Design: News & information on embedded systems, microcontrollers, microprocessors
  
  ...two-cell supply. More... ADVERTISEMENT Click Here Events Multicore Expo Dates: 3/16/2009 - 3/19/2009 Location: Santa Clara, CA Multicore Expo Dates: 3/16/2009 - 3/19/2009 Location: Santa Clara...
• STMicroelectronics and ARM team up to power home entertainment
  
  Date: Oct 29, 2009
  ...up to power home entertainment ST adopts ARM Cortex-A9 multicore processor to deliver high-performance, power-efficient...strategy." ST has also licensed the ARM Mali-400 MP multicore scalable graphics processing unit (GPU) technology to meet...
• Industry leaders share their insights about processor and software-processing architectures and the...
  
  ...infinite t... Multiprocessing #6: Multicore architectures http://www.edn.com...3586 Robert’s insightful article on multicore taxonomy makes a good case for the need for standard ways to describe and discuss multicore technolo... Multiprocessing #5: Dataplane...article, and his... Multiprocessing #4: Multicore Configurations http://www.edn...post/1350046135.html?nid=3586 Multicore processors (processors with multiple processing...Multiprocessing #3: Things to consider with multicore http://www.edn.com/blog/1200000320...1190045719.html?nid=3586 When programming multicore, debug becomes exponentially more difficult...Before we take a look at the landscape of multicore programming and what is happening within it...thing that we need to bear in mi... Multicore in a world of Multiprocessing http...
• Memcon panel explores readiness of DDR3
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Jun 29, 2009
  ...in which the industry is moving. "It's all about multicore," Ching said. "There is a real question whether we will have enough performance from the memory system in a multicore, thread-rich environment. In order to exploit faster...embedded designers." Asked about how DDR3 would work in multicore systems, Ching said that in the near-term, it would...the software people figure out how to really adapt to multicore computing, you are going to have lots of threads contending...
• MS7724 from Renesas includes Linux kernel, and allows users to test SH-Mobile R2R features such as...
  
  ...Jan 2010 08:57:00 MST VxWorks 6.8 adds support for multicore CPUs from many vendors. http://www.edn.com/dev-monkey...WindRiver RTOS now supports ARM, Intel, Freescale, Cavium RMI multicore architectures. Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:25:00 MST Renesas...
• Designing a multicore + coprocessor security system
  
  Author: John Bromhead, LSI Corp, Semiconductor Solutions Group | Date: Jul 24, 2009
  ...Designing a multicore + coprocessor...range of multicore processors...support, these multicore processors...processing in the multicore era often...embedded in multicore processors...the latest multicore systems and...the right multicore processor...the right multicore processor The multicore technology...developing multicore products...demand. A multicore processor...adopting multicore technology...assurance that a multicore processor will... The multicore processor...step in the multicore selection...the right multicore processor...scalability of multicore processors...factor for multicore processor... Some multicore processors...homogeneous CPU multicore strategy...So several multicore processor...choosing a multicore processor... Pure multicore (homogeneous...between the multicore general-purpose...today in multicore processors...If the multicore processor...scalability. Multicore embedded security...Ideally, the multicore processor...homogeneous multicore systems...system with a multicore processor...efficient multicore + coprocessor...general-purpose multicore processor...emerging multicore hardware...heterogeneous multicore approach...general-purpose multicore processor with...
• Multicore programming: easy or difficult?
  
  Author: By Barry O’Rourke, CriticalBlue | Date: Mar 25, 2009
  Feature Multicore programming: easy...shared memory multicore platforms is seen...The promise of multicore in embedded systems...platforms. Most multicore platforms currently...investigation suggests that multicore programming requires...spent on going multicore in the first place...processors in the multicore system since it...code is run on the multicore target, the performance...that gives the multicore programming its...the point when multicore software analysis...difficult for the multicore programmer. Because...Clearly developing multicore software can be...the output of the multicore and sequential...it appears that multicore does provide many...efficiently onto a multicore platform or worse...Fortunately the multicore developer has access...re-sources, such as the Multicore Association's MPP ( multicore programming practices...are the emerging multicore and threading aware...process. So, is multicore development easy...and software for multicore systems. He has...
• FROM EDN EUROPE: Thermal therapy
  
  Author: By Graham Prophet, Editor |
  ...longer seen as the way forward: the company is set on the multicore path and now cites power levels of around 65W per package...application that fully utilises the capabilities of these multicore chips, Intel and its partners will be expending great efforts...
• Intel buys multicore software specialist RapidMind
  
  Author: By Suzanne Deffree, Managing Editor, News | Date: Aug 21, 2009
  Intel buys multicore software specialist RapidMind Intel credits...software developers with data parallel programming for multicore processors and accelerators. By Suzanne Deffree...News, 8/21/2009 Intel Corp has acquired multicore software specialist RapidMind with plans to integrate...applications that leverage the full potential of multicore processors from Intel and AMD." In addition...software developers with data parallel programming for multicore processors and accelerators. Their joining Intel...and complete development solutions needed for a multicore world with forward-scaling built-in." ...main products include VxWorks, a proprietary and multicore-ready real-time operating system, and commercial-grade...
• Wireless to go
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Feb 4, 2010
  ...engines sufficiently to get more computational capacity, so we are starting to see multicore PCs. But most applications don’t take advantage of multicore processors because nobody knows how to program them. They sit there and warm up our laps...
• The state of SoC verification: a morning with Mentor's John Lenyo
  
  Author: Ron Wilson | Date: Sep 14, 2009
  ...get leverage against the growing problem has been exploiting multicore servers and multiprocessor parallelism. In some ways...CPUs. In this way a verification run can use a cluster of multicore servers effectively. Mentor, for example, has shown sub-linear...
• Mindspeed visualizes an opening in the base-station market
  
  Author: By Ron Wilson, Executive Editor | Date: Jan 26, 2010
  ...processing load, Mindspeed has chosen a heterogeneous multicore approach—perhaps the most ambitious of its kind—built...II, and one CPRI. The point of such an ambitious multicore architecture is to bring software-level programmability...with the problem of programming a large heterogeneous multicore architecture for wirespeed operation. To crack the...coupled processing problems such as beamforming on a large multicore architecture while handling packet processing in the background...
• Mentor unveils Android, Linux strategy at DAC
  
  Author: By Rick Nelson, Editor-in-Chief | Date: Jul 30, 2009
  ...complex devices beyond mobile phones and the growing use of multicore processors running multiple operating systems. By Rick...was originally developed. The other is the growing use of multicore processors in multiple operating systems, usually Linux and...
• Recognizing technology’s inflections
  
  Author: By Robert Cravotta, Technical Editor | Date: Jan 21, 2010
  ...on-chip debugging and profiling resources. Long before multicore processors became popular, processor architectures...management and combination. In contrast, general-purpose multicore implementations often require software developers to explicitly...caches for highly deterministic applications, applying a multicore approach to a general-purpose problem exposes and complicates...