Historically when embedded platforms needed improved performance they moved to processors with higher clock speeds. This approach was always accompanied with power and thermal challenges for bladed environments such as CompactPCI®. Today the semiconductor industry is transitioning away from this clock speed race and instead adding additional processor cores to increase platform performance. While this development provides a respite for CompactPCI applications (and others) it requires a fundamental change in how an embedded systems developer approaches a project. Even greater consideration must be given to processor selection, as well as,overall system design. And, with the rising complexity of this new hardware environment, software development moves into an increasingly significant role. Symmetric multiprocessing, asymmetric multiprocessing, virtualization, integrated development environments, and multithread-optimized performance libraries must all be woven into the development strategy. During this webinar Emerson, Intel, and Wind River will discuss these aspects of migrating to CompactPCI multi-core platforms and obtaining optimal performance from these platforms. They will also explore some of the challenges and solution approaches to enable and ease the industry transition.