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    As my colleague Mark Nadeski highlighted in his recent blog post, we are very excited about our 12 months of multicore campaign, which highlights a unique multicore application each month. I personally find it exciting that the application for August is enterprise gateways . I have been an active participant...
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    Besides the obvious connection these 3 words have (yes, they all start with the letter C) ….. clouds, cells and cool all refer to trends we see on the horizon for the wireless infrastructure market. Throughout some informal conversations I’ve had with our multicore team members over the...
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    As often happens with products, the user finds a benefit of the product that was not the initial or at least primary target of the product or its features. I mentioned in a recent blog post , about how the plethora of personal GPS navigation devices has revolutionized our travel experience; short trips...
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    I recently saw a holiday gift advertisement highlighting the many choices of GPS navigational devices available, and noted how the market has clearly moved from an early adopter toy to mainstream use. And, wow, how it has changed the way people manage their ground transportation trips. Not only do we...
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    Transactional memory seems to gain more momentum these days. But what is behind this terminology? Let me try to explain this in my humble and simple words. Basically for me ' Transactional Memory ' is an atomic access that is non-blocking and coherency is checked at store time. Typically...
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  • Blog Post: EE Times multicore article

    EE Times has just published an article I co-wrote with my colleagues Sanjay Bhal and John Warner that should be of interest to readers of Multicore Mix titled, "The Key to Realizing Full Multicore Design Functionality" . Here is a link: http://www.eetimes.com/design/embedded/4219606/The-key...
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    There is a lot of discussion in the industry about what programming language is best suited for multicore architectures and I'm wondering which one will prevail. The same goes for programming paradigms and tooling. Will there be a standard way of programming multicore architectures? To be...
  • Blog Post: Scaling Down Through Multicore

    Scaling “down” through multicore is an idea that is garnering attention, primarily because people turn to multicore devices to solve a problem that requires high performance. Being able to create a scaled down, lower cost, lower power and potentially portable version of a larger system is...
  • Blog Post: Does Amdahl’s law really help?

    One of the first topics you stumble over when discussing multicore and performance is Amdahl's law . This law is often used in parallel computing to calculate the theoretical maximum multicore performance. For example, if your code is serial to 50% and can be executed in parallel for the other half...
  • Blog Post: Multicore Entitlement – Are we there yet?

    If you tune in to the news lately, and listen to the congressional debates over how to reduce the U.S. deficit, it’s hard not to hear a discussion around "entitlements." The word, “entitlement” implies some sense of right, a guarantee, yet as the debate continues amidst financial...