heterogeneous processing

“It’s the time between putting out an open-source ARM core and getting a letter from an ARM lawyer,” says UC Berkeley professor Krste Asanovic. So, some design teams are turning to IP that started out as open source to provide more scope for experimentation.

Deep pipelines and dynamic memory sharing may provide the key to the development of faster and more efficient server-farm blades as the focus in hardware design moves to augmenting conventional processors with specialized accelerators.

The Multicore Association has started work on standardizing a set of APIs that aim to simplify communications between processors in heterogeneous multicore SoCs

ARM has developed a version of its CoreLink on-chip interconnect IP intended to support systems based on its big.Little processors combinations that need a cache-coherent GPU connection with lower latency and higher peak throughput.

Imagination Technologies plans to introduce support for virtualization across all its processor cores, including signal processors such as the Ensigma family, as part of a plan to improve SoC security.

As heterogeneous multicore SoCs move into the mainstream, embedded developers face increasing integration and debug challenges.

HP is throwing open its doors to other companies to bring in the necessary hardware and low-level software to build a new generation of servers, each specialized to a workload.

Altera will add a quad-core 64bit ARM processor complex to the Stratix 10 family of high-end FPGAs that will be made on Intel's 14nm finFET process.

Keynoter Lisa Su spun a whimsical idea to serious intent as AMD looks to promote its model for heterogeneous architectures

In a deal that pits the company head to head with ARM, Imagination Technologies has decided to buy the business of MIPS Technologies including the CPU architectures and cores. The price tag is $60m cash.