By John Dixon – The term ‘multithreading’ is a generic description of the method used to increase the utilization of a single core with thread level as well as instruction level parallelism. In my conversations with multiple customers on this topic following our recent QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series announcements, including the T4240 based on [...]
By Tom Thompson – No, this article is not about a missing Lord of the Rings movie. (Although that would be cool.) It’s about the fact that Freescale microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessor units (MPUs) based on Power Architecture technology are now part of the designer’s toolkit when using the Freescale Tower System platform for embedded systems development.
February 27, 2012 – 8:24 am
By Iain Davidson — This week is a BIG week in Europe. We have Mobile World Congress and embedded world in the same week and I’m torn. Where do I go to talk M2M? The answer? I will be in both places, two days each. At Mobile World Congress, it’s all about M2M for healthcare [...]
January 30, 2012 – 8:45 am
By Rob Oshana – This article continues my discussion of migrating legacy network routing software to a multicore platform. While multiple cores can boost throughput, care must be taken in how they access shared data to avoid corrupting it or using stale information. This can be managed by using the processor’s memory manager or hypervisor to [...]
January 2, 2012 – 1:24 pm
By Rob Oshana – In a previous blog article, I provided a general overview of networking system functions and components. I pointed out how the throughput of such devices could be improved by taking advantage of the capabilities of multicore processors. The processing load can be divvied up among the multiple cores to increase throughput, [...]
December 13, 2011 – 8:24 am
By Rob Oshana – Products with multicore processors have become nearly ubiquitous today. The CPU in a year-old laptop has dual cores and—even more likely—quad cores. The latest crop of tablets possess dual core processors, whether they are Apple’s iPad 2, Research In Motion’s Playbook, or Amazon’s newly-introduced Kindle Fire. Even some of today’s high-end smartphones have [...]
October 6, 2011 – 8:07 am
By Iain Davidson – Hi folks. Last week I attended BBWF in Paris and came back buzzing for a couple of reasons. First, we won an industry award … but more on that later. What was quite striking during the conference was the emphasis placed on Wi-Fi offload. This is summed up very well by [...]
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