SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The migration to multicore processing, though fraught with challenges, is the only plausible way to achieve the computing performance required in the not-to-distant future, concluded a panel of executives at the Multicore Expo here Thursday (March
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Multicore silicon brings performance and power consumption advantages but raises the software complexity bar.
Multi-core silicon provides exciting possibilities to keep the performance delivery curve going in the right direction, but enhanced and new software tools and run-time solutions are required to simplify the transition from single to dual-core and beyond, and we are
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Rivals may vie at Multicore Expo
Santa Clara, Calif. — With many calling programming the biggest obstacle to deployment of multiprocessor systems-on-chip, Multicore Expo convenes here this week to tackle that challenge. Some controversy over rival interprocess communications proposals appears inevitable. The three-day Expo, the first
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Interactive systems need fault resilience.
As every aspect of computer design becomes increasingly dependent on the effective performance and interaction of distributed processors, it is clear that as much effort needs to be focused on software resilience as on hardware fault tolerance. The need for
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How to make your asymmetric multiprocessor design OS and CPU independent.
Even as semiconductor companies tend toward multiprocessing solutions in many network, embedded consumer and mobile designs, the RTOSes and development tools are still rushing to catch up with the shift. Most multiprocessing-capable operating systems support one type of processor at
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Group forms to tackle multicore issues.
Austin, Texas — The explosion in multicore designs has given birth to the Multicore Association, with working groups aimed at developing standard interfaces to debug and EDA tools, as well as discussions on how to proceed with an interchip communications
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Tools help harness multicore power.
PolyCore’s Brehmer, however, believes the adoption of heterogeneous multiprocessing for small-footprint consumer devices poses a set of problems that differ in kind, as well as degree, from those encountered elsewhere. “While there are a number of applications in networking and
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Software limits multi-core ICs, panelists say.
Sven Brehmer, CEO of Polycore Software, said he’s been in the embedded programming area for 20 years and that multi-core ICs are the biggest disruption he’s seen during that period. Suddenly, he noted, designers have to worry about moving data
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QNX Brings Eclipse-Based Momentics to Multicore Designs
Ottawa, Canada – Calculating that it will need more than just an alternative message passing framework to address the needs of embedded multiprocessor designs, QNX Software Systems has come up with a multicore edition of its Eclipse IDE-based Momentics development
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Mass-Market Multicore
In the new world of multicore, IT must overcome challenges in desktop software and partitioning. Computerworld – For vendors and end users alike, the ascent of multicore processors is as beneficial as it is inevitable. Vendors (of chips, hardware, software, networking
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