In the past few years, terms such as “multi-threading,†“multi-processing,†and marketing terms derived from these have started to appear as features for existing electronic design automation ...

A specification called “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), a mechanism for software to more effectively leverage the benefits of multicore processing, describes technology supporting the recently ...

Feature-rich consumer products and the need for these products to support increasing performance demands at lower cost and less power is not a new issue. Nor is the fact that the power ceiling has ...

Software engineers enable this by integrating Building Management Systems (BMS), Energy Management Software, protection ...

AMD is announcing plans to extend its CPU instruction set Tuesday to make it easier for software developers to exploit the power of multicore processors when building applications. The company’s ...

The addition of multiple cores to microprocessors has created a significant opportunity for parallel programming, but a killer application is needed to push the concept into the mainstream, ...

Information technology (IT) has the potential to continue to dramatically transform how we work and live. One might expect that future IT advances will occur as a natural continuation of the stunning ...

The addition of multiple cores to microprocessors has created a significant opportunity for parallel programming, but a killer application is needed to push the concept into the mainstream, ...