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 [...]
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 25, 2011 – 10:01 am
By Jim Trudeau – Sometimes real gems are hiding in plain sight. We are bombarded by data, and who knows what brilliant discoveries we miss in the cacophony of noise. A friend might point out something. “Hey, have you seen…” and call our attention to an item. We take a look and, lo and behold, that [...]
October 4, 2011 – 1:12 pm
By Jim Trudeau – Catnaps are good things, for cats, people, and electronic devices. More and more of the gadgets we use are battery powered. More and more is expected of them: meaning faster processors with greater capabilities to get all that great work done. Yet, while doing all of these great things, the processor must [...]
September 26, 2011 – 9:22 am
By Tom Thompson – When working in Freescale Tech Support, you get exposed to the entire range of silicon parts that Freescale makes. That can be a challenge because Freescale makes a lot of different parts: all you have to do is take a glimpse at the Microcontrollers page on the Freescale site to see [...]
By Tom Thompson
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Posted in Freescale, Software Meets Silicon, The Embedded Beat
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Also tagged ARM, CodeWarrior, ColdFire, embedded software, Freescale, Freescale MCU, Kinetis MCU, Microcontrollers, Qorivva
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August 23, 2011 – 12:36 pm
See also part 1, “Calling all petrolheads: Configurable aftermarket ECUs for sale!” By Mike Garrard – Thanks to your support, the configurable aftermarket ECU based on Qorivva MCUs is now an approved plan at Freescale. Excellent! I have done my best to take your comments on board and assess other industry examples. In particular, I have [...]
By Michael Stanley — I had a lot of fun at the Freescale Technology Forum a couple of weeks ago in San Antonio. It was my first opportunity to attend FTF, and I had a lot of really good conversations with old and new friends about how to solve some of their application problems. For [...]
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