After watching a wave of multicore processors announced in the last couple years, now I'm seeing the pendulum swing to new software that finally enables developers to really take advantage of them. Tools are hitting the market allowing developers to deploy applications on embedded multicore processo...

What open standard board format has dozens of vendors, leverages technology from commercial markets, and still offers RAS, QoS, low cost, and an outstanding roadmap? Why, the AdvancedMC-based MicroTCA, of course. This E-cast provides an overview of MicroTCA and showcases some of the standard's capab...

The Cell Broadband Engine (Cell BE) is an extremely high-performance signal processing chip currently under evaluation for multi-function radars, including detection, tracking, jamming, NCTR, raid assessment, missile data linking, mapping and communications. The key issue in parallel processing and...

Telecom equipment manufacturers (TEMs), network equipment providers (NEPs) and service providers face rising demands to increase services, faster and with fewer resources. The Service Availability Forum has developed specifications for standardizing hardware access, through the Hardware Platform Int...

FPGAs offer a wide range of cost/performance for implementing DSP algorithms. Finding the optimal implementation usually involves exploring the tradeoffs between fully parallel vs. serial architectures of the algorithm and will be highly dependent on the available resources, speed, and architecture...

Engineers designing an embedded computing processor or I/O board face many challenges and choices. This E-cast will explore what happens when chipset are not available or alternatives are needed to meet specific design requirements.

This seminar will cover how today's engineering development teams can utilize a multipurpose embedded Linux distribution to create powerful embedded solutions. We will explore how open source packages developed and maturing today provide a path to carrier-grade Linux (CGL) solutions for embedded dev...

This seminar compares the benefits of SMP and distributed architectures as implemented for different types of processors. Developers and innovators who require embedded multiprocessing solutions can benefit from this seminar, which will present: (1) The ease of use and code portability of SMP archit...

The COM Express standard defines a small form factor single board computer based on high performance PCI Express fabric technology. Com Express boards can be used standalone for embedded applications or can act as a CPU mezzanine that plugs onto an application specific I/O base board. Using COM Expr...

The inherent parallelism of high density FPGAs, plus their ability to realize myriad DSP algorithms -- while also adding microprocessor capabilities -- has made them the logical choice in DSP systems. While not replacing the general purpose DSP IC, FPGAs complement signal processing applications so...

The market for DSP, and FPGAs used as signal processing engines and in reconfigurable computing applications, is larger today than ever. We will be examining the use of these technologies in the embedded marketplace and discussing the "hot issues" for busy engineers.

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Today's multicore processors are designed to deliver outstanding performance, and embedded designers need to understand both the hardware and the software to optimize their systems. In this live event, we'll hear from AMD and Ardence on key points in their multicore architectures, and techniques to...

Five organizations are working together to drive a mainstream market for open industry standards-based communications platforms. Join the Communications Platforms Trade Association (CP-TA), Open Source Development Labs (OSDL), PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), Service Availability...

High-performance processing in a 3U form factor offers unique capabilities that address the severe size, weight, and power constraints for deployed mission-critical applications such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles (HMMWVs). This se...

The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor is a breakthrough technology capable of massive floating-point processing for compute-intensive applications. Originally designed for the home entertainment market, the Cell BE processor's architecture of nine heterogeneous on-chip cores is ideal for the type...

VXS adds a high-speed, serial RapidIO fabric to the battle-tested VME architecture. This VITA 41.2 extension promises to increase the performance of fabric-limited applications by three times or more. Designers and developers are looking to VXS to solve defense embedded compute problems with serial...