Two processors can work better than one when they're tuned to a particular application area. Tensilica's new Xtensa-V architecture makes this possible for any number ...

Consider a multiprocessor system using several discrete chips, in which each processor can access memory and I/O through the appropriate bridges (Figure 2a). A direct SOC implementation of the ...

Signal processing systems often include multiple types of processors,such as Digital Signal Processors (DSPs), General Purpose Processors(GPPs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). These ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Entering the crowded high-performance bus landscape, Sun Microsystems Inc. made the first public disclosure of its JBus architecture Tuesday (June 12) at the Embedded Processor ...

Hardware/software co-design has been a goal for several decades, but success has been limited. More recently, progress has been made in optimizing a processor as well as the addition of accelerators ...