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MCAPI adopted by VirtualLogix

  • September 26, 2008
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MCAPI has been defined to flexibly support hundreds of processor cores and systems with tight memory constraints, fast task execution times, reliable on-chip interconnect and high system throughput requirements. By supporting the MCAPI specification within VLX, customers are able to
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PolyCore Tools Designed to Ease Multicore Communications

  • August 20, 2008
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As computational requirements go up and fab processes increasingly bump up against inconvenient physical limitations, multicore solutions are becoming more attractive. The problem is that no one wants to program them, because there are lots of challenges associated with implementing
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Designers draft multicore programming guide.

  • May 22, 2008
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The Multicore Association is kicking off an effort to define best programming practices for embedded multicore processors. The group hopes within a year to define and create a guide to handling the thorniest problems in the growing arena of parallel
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Multicore Messaging Manifested

  • May 13, 2008
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A few weeks ago we took a look at the new MCAPI standard that provides low-level, low-overhead message-passing capabilities for multicore and tightly-coupled multi-processor systems. But of course, standards are no good unless someone implements them, so here we take
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Getting Back to a Simpler Life

  • April 22, 2008
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Thanks to a late arrival, I walked briskly through the jetway and out into the terminal. Glancing out through the window, I confirmed, to my relief, what the map in the airline magazine had shown: my connection, while technically in
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PolyCore Software Announces Poly-Messenger MCAPI Support

  • March 31, 2008
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Standardized and simplified multicore communication enables application portability. Multicore Expo – PolyCore Software, today announced MCAPI support for Poly-Messenger(R) its multicore communication framework. The Multicore Communications API (MCAPI) is defined specifically for multicore communications, to support lightweight, high performance implementations
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Multicore. What’s the Big Deal?

  • December 1, 2007
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Why do we need multicore? The simple answer is that with multicore we continue pushing the performance/power envelope through parallel processing rather than increasing the clock speed as we have done for many years. With multiple cores, the processors can
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Eneakonkurrent Vill Programmera Multikarnor

  • January 16, 2007
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Använd meddelandesystem för kommunikation på multikärnor, samma teknik som idag används i mellan processorkort i distribuerade system. Det är budskapet från amerikanska Polycore Software till dem som står inför det komplexa uppdraget att programmera morgondagens multikärnor. (Read full article by
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Embedded Multicore Needs Communications Standards

  • November 1, 2006
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Multicore systems are popular but problematic. The authors describe the problem with communications APIs and what the Multicore Association is doing about it. What do firefighting and multicore programming have in common? Both are hot jobs. Firefighters and multicores both
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On-Chip Interconnects for Multi-Core Chips: A Software Perspective

  • May 8, 2006
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Portable and distributed multi-media applications are driving an ever increasing demand for computational performance at acceptable power consumption levels, both at the client and the infrastructure sides. At the same time, the software content driven by functional requirements is constantly
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