Monthly Archives: June 2006

The embedded enterprise

Posted on June 29, 2006 by yodaiken

It is now possible to put together sophisticated and powerful embedded and control systems that are mostly composed of pre-existing working software. One of the demonstrations we showed at AMD’s recent embedded workshop was a small two processor (4 core) … Continue reading →

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Speculation on modularity and information theory

Posted on June 15, 2006 by yodaiken

One way of defining modules is by what engineers have to know. If a program X consists of components X1 … Xn then we can say Xi is a module if a programmer can modify it without learning “much” about … Continue reading →

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multicore and virtualization and real-time provisioning

Posted on June 11, 2006 by yodaiken

We added the “reservation” capability to RTCore real-time POSIX threads a couple of years ago. Normally, the client platform operating system shares the processor with RTCore threads as a completely pre-emptible low priority thread. This works exceptionally well. Worst case … Continue reading →

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