Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

A new version of the company's 8051 Virtual Workshop enables users to debug and verify software for multi-processor systems in the absence of any target hardware. The new version supports the ...

Targeting optimized power efficiency and reduced design time, independent R&D organization IMEC has created a design flow for multi-processor-based multi-mode multimedia terminals to address the ...

A reader recently contacted us and asked a question worth answering in an article. How does Windows (and perhaps all OS's) take advantage of multiple cores? Alternatively, if this function is built ...

Discussions about CPUs often frame one instruction set architecture (ISA) against another—x86 vs. Arm, Arm vs. RISC-V, and so on. However, it’s common to use multiple CPU architectures in a single ...

Enabling all cores of a processor can improve performance and multi-tasking capabilities, reduce the amount of energy consumed by the system, and improve the overall stability of the device, as the ...

Third-Generation Conduction-Cooled 800 MHz 7447A 6U VME System Addresses Harshest Environments LONG BEACH, Calif.—Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. announced at the Military Embedded Electronics and ...

RapidMind Multi-core Development Platform 3.0 helps developers fully leverage the processing power of multi-core x86 chips RapidMind is announcing on Monday software intended to help developers ...

Optimizing any system is a multi-layered problem, but when it involves a processor there are at least three levels to consider. Architects must be capable of thinking across these boundaries because ...

In simple terms, CPU utilization is the current percentage of CPU resources consumed by all programs. If you notice that some programs are using more of your CPU cores and hogging system resources, ...

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