Interconnect mechanisms are application-specific and represent a significant part of a design's value. Being able to capture system-level processor interactions is key to validating your system. You ...

One near constant that you have been seeing in the pages of The Next Platform is that the downside of having a slowing rate at which the speed of new processors is increasing is offset by the upside ...

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The multiprocessor approach removes all of these control and signal lines from the VMC’s wiring and replaces them with a simple communications bus between the satellite processors and the VMC. The ...

Though the use of multiple processors has grown in recent years, multiprocessor computers are more than 30 years old. Since this time, their capabilities have evolved as much as their implementation.

On the heels of Intel’s move to dual core processor development, the IP company ARM is making a move in the same direction with a synthesizable multiprocessor. Yet the MPCore multiprocessor can be ...

Distributed applications without interprocess communication does not exist. On the other hand, a variety of interprocess communication (IPC) mechanisms for operating systems exists to support ...

Providing the multiple unrelated clocks of today's multiprocessor FPGA/SoC designs presents a complex challenge to designers; user-programmable clock ICs with independent output frequencies and ...

There are significant differences between the PCI Express architecture and its future cousin Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), but contrary to popular belief, the ability to build robust ...

Multiprocessor real-time systems are central to modern computing, underpinning applications from smart devices to industrial automation. Real-time scheduling in these systems ensures that diverse ...

Design productivity is one the most important challenge facing future generation multiprocessor system on chip (MPSOC). The modeling of dozens of interconnected IPs with distributed memories implies ...