Selecting a CPU core for multi-CPU SoC designs
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2003-03-03 |
| This article examines the many features of processor cores being considered for multi-CPU designs |
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How to calculate CPU utilisation
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2004-08-02 |
| Is your chip fast enough? Is it too fast? Systems engineers might be paying for more chip than they need, or they may be dangerously close to over-taxing their current processor. Take the guesswork out of measuring processor utilisation levels. |
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How to calculate CPU utilisation
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2004-08-02 |
| Is your chip fast enough? Is it too fast? Systems engineers might be paying for more chip than they need, or they may be dangerously close to over-taxing their current processor. Take the guesswork out of measuring processor utilisation levels. |
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| DSP/CPU core steers video/audio formats
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2001-04-15 |
| Television will take on a completely new design direction thanks to very long instruction word (VLIW) technology. |
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Use processor redundancy for maximum reliability
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2002-09-01 |
| Five-nines reliability can be reached if designers go beyond generic component backup to tackle the precise art of CPU handoff |
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Network Processing In Cost Sensitive Applications
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2001-07-02 |
| This paper provides an abstract that explains the need for flexibility of CPU-based solutions due to the commoditization and consumerization of a new breed of network devices |
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Maximise system performance with slack scheduling
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2009-10-05 |
| By giving software designers the capability to factor timing computations into slack scheduling and/or the high criticality fixed budget timeline, Deos also allows creative use of CPU time to maximise system performance without risk |
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Optimisation techniques for high-performance DSPs
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1999-03-01 |
| As applications grow, so does the stress on available CPU and memory resources. This article summarises some of the techniques used in practice to gain speed increases from high-performance DSPs |
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GDCs improve automotive imaging systems
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2008-06-01 |
| Graphics display controllers boost automotive displays by enabling advanced functions such as point-of-view navigation and realistic representations of analogue gauges without taxing the main CPU and requiring external cooling components |
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Multi-threaded design tackles SoC performance bottlenecks (1)
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2006-12-22 |
| Multi-threading processor core tackles both the CPU efficiency and the bus latency bottlenecks in driver-assistance/vision/navigation system SoC design |
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| Co-verification speeded up for design
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2001-06-16 |
| Innoveda's boosted V-CPU hardware/software co-verification system through a link with Axis Systems' simulation accelerator can increase the performance of hardware portions of the co-verification process |
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Use pipelining in multi-core LabView
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2008-11-19 |
| Here's how to use pipelining to speed up inherently serial tasks when running LabView on a multi-core CPU |
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Curb security breach in embedded systems
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2005-09-01 |
| Well-protected embedded systems must have security measures designed-in from the outset, starting with processor or CPU core specification |
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Optimising embedded apps with DMA
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2011-01-31 |
| Learn about Direct Memory Access (DMA), a peripheral that can do data transfer operations without including the CPU |
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The Goertzel Algorithm
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2002-09-02 |
| The Goertzel algorithm can perform tone detection using much less CPU horsepower than the Fast Fourier Transform, but many engineers have never heard of it. This article attempts to change that |
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Power Integrity and Energy Aware Floor Planning
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2008-01-29 |
| Extreme performance and frequency are no longer dominant design goals for SoC's. Recent years have witnessed changes in microprocessors' architectures, with multi-GHz unicore CPU devices abandoned in favour of low-frequency multi-core variants, and frequency becoming a forgotten memory |
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| HD DVD player pushes the performance envelope
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2007-04-01 |
| When Toshiba set out to develop a second generation of the HD-1A, it was with the intention of reducing cost of the system, not change the features. |
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Of ARM Mali-T604 and the future IP trends
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2011-07-12 |
| The ARM Mali graphics core has made a shift from years of evolution in the rendering hardware. It now points to the future of IP. |
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| Handheld phone/PC offers full-size laptop features
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2007-09-10 |
| Advantage X7500 a PocketPC phone is much smaller than a laptop, more like a conventional PDA. But it offers much of the same functionality of the laptop. |
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Compare single-edge, dual-edge controller designs in CPUs
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2008-10-10 |
| The days of using a single-phase switching regulator to address stringent requirements are long gone. |
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Software debug options on ASIC cores
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1997-01-01 |
| Thinking about using ASIC technology to integrate your system's electronics onto a single chip? Not so fast. Now that electronics are reaching the level of integration that can be termed "systems on a chip," how will you debug your software? |
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| Startup set to roll Bluetooth module-on-a-chip
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2001-04-01 |
| A CMOS device said to pack nearly all the components needed to build a Bluetooth module has been launched by a year-old Silicon Valley startup. |
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Embedded x86: Protected mode
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1998-04-04 |
| The x86 architecture is spilling over into embedded systems environments. This article begins a series designed to help you on you way toward implementing an embedded x86-based system. |
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| Employing Open Embedded to create Linux distributions
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2011-08-08 |
| Learn what the key elements of the Open Embedded Linux (OE) build environment are, and understand how to use them to build and customise Linux distributions. |
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Problems of PWM duty cycles and higher switching frequencies
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2008-08-13 |
| This article examines the weaknesses of conventionally generated digital PWM (DPWM). |
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Providing security for connected real-time systems
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2003-04-16 |
| Providing security for connected real-time systems |
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| Researchers team up for Java-based IP query tool
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2001-05-16 |
| A collaborative effort is producing a new Java-based tool that promises to allow users to easily query IP repositories and commercial databases via the Web. |
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| Easing embedded processing development (Part 5)
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2011-09-12 |
| The fifth instalment of this series provides an introduction to the fundamentals of embedded software design and considerations to aid with embedded processor design. |
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Employing fastboot for ultra small Atom processor designs
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2009-10-15 |
| How can developers achieve a fast, BIOS-less boot on open x86 processors rather than on dedicated controllers? |
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Understanding and using the I2C bus
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1997-11-01 |
| This article describes the inter-IC control bus, a two-wire bus for providing a communication link between integrated circuits. |
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