Multicore Mix

  • 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...
  • So, you have selected your snappy new multicore device and are ready to start development. What’s next? Fire up your tool suite and get coding right? Not so fast. Did you really take the time to make tools part of the evaluation process? I hope...
  • Time has flown since we launched our Multicore Mix blog one year ago! It’s been a year of insight on multicore trends and topics from blog authors Sandeep, Arnon, Tom, Juergen, Zhihong and Debbie. Somehow, here in the Multicore Mix, Arnon has related...
  • Thanks to those who participated in our last Multicore Mix contest! We loved hearing about why you read our blog. Congratulations to BigDogGuru for submitting the winning response: “After poring over datasheets and application notes all day...
  • We have so much love for our Multicore Mix readers that we are celebrating YOUR love of multicore with a contest in the spirit of Valentines Day! To enter the contest, leave a comment on this post and tell us what you LOVE about multicore. It’s...
  • 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...
  • It was just last year that we introduced our multicore DSPs to the high performance computing market -- and now it’s already time for our second visit to the annual Supercomputing 2012 show ! We’re excited to be in Salt Lake City from Nov...
  • A little over a month ago, we asked you what you would like to see covered in our Multicore Mix blog. One person mentioned that it would be good to see where multicore DSPs can be used outside the wireless base station infrastructure market. I think that’s...
  • 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...
  • Today is “Dress like Steve Jobs day”. I have never owned an Apple product yet I still feel a great personal sense of loss at Steve’s death. I don’t dislike Apple though many who know me feel that I do. I have always had a very...