Using different processors in a system makes sense for power and performance, but it’s making cache coherency much more difficult. Cache coherency is becoming more pervasive—and more problematic—as ...

When projects move away from discrete development of loosely coupled systems to an integrated heterogeneous environment, elephantine debugging challenges are created. These challenges do not exist ...

Support for the remote processor framework (remoteproc) for Mentor® Embedded Linux®, Nucleus® RTOS and bare-metal applications. This aids in the configuration, development, deployment and management ...

The development of processors has entered the generation of the "heterogeneous multi-core processor", in which the integration of different types of processors (such as GPU, DSP, general processors, ...

In this article we will be discussing various aspects of multicore processing, including a look at different types of multicore processors and why these devices are becoming common and popular today.

EDA company Mentor Graphics has just released what it claims to be the embedded software industry's first comprehensive solution for heterogeneous multicore system-on-chip (SoC) development.

Mentor Graphics designs its software development tools to handle a range of platforms from small, single-core microcontrollers to multicore system-on-chip (SoC) platforms. Symmetric multiprocessor ...

Samsung looks to have just taken the processor wars one notch higher with the announcement of Heterogeneous Multi-Processing, or HMP, being used in their latest Exynos 5 Octa line of processors. This ...