David Stewart is the chief executive officer of CriticalBlue, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Email address: David.stewart@criticalblue.com
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September 23, 2008
[Web Exclusive] Establishing A New Frontier In Embedded Multicore Programming
Over the last few years, the electronics industry has seen a varied range of exotic new multicore processor architectures, 54 at our last count. While many of the inventors of these fascinating devices have promoted them as general solutions, only a few have seen success, and then in very specific application spaces.
April 24, 2008[Technology Report] Programming Multicore Platforms: What’s Really Going On?
The reusable hardware platform, bristling with a range of processor architectures, is becoming commonplace. But even as processor vendors tout their latest multicore offerings, the effective programming of these complex devices remains an open question. Academia will rise to the challenge with expansive programming models and methodologies in the future. In the meantime, the widening programmability gap threatens to choke design productivity. Let’s examine the brave new multicore...
