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January 2012

	Multicore performance \| Transaction-level modeling \| M2M development
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Managing network traffic flow for multicore x86 processors at 40/100G

By Nabil G. Damouny, Netronome

Part one of this two-part series takes an introspective look at the processors that will be used to facilitate the migration to 40G, 100G, and beyond.

Use Transaction-Level Models to ensure hardware and software are in sync

By Michael McNamara, Cadence Design Systems

SystemC-based Transaction-Level Models (TLMs) ease communication and synchronization between software and hardware design teams.

Embedded Application Frameworks: Simplifying the development of M2M devices

By Pierre Teyssier, Sierra Wireless

A helping hand from Embedded Application Frameworks eases design pressures for M2M developers.

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EtherCAT on Sitara AM335xARM Cortex-A8 Microprocessors

By Texas Instruments

Can You Have It All? Evaluating FPGA-Based Prototyping Systems

By Synopsys, Inc.

How to Boost Solar Power Inverter Reliability

By Silicon Laboratories

Roving Reporter: Verifying code performance on multicore devices

As designers transition to the latest generation multicore processors, software must be divided into separate partitions to gain the performance benefits of parallel execution. With Intel Core processors, developers have access to multiple techniques to enable this performance gain including symmetric or asymmetric multiprocessing and virtualization.

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Multicore

Multicore technology is becoming widely available to address the performance bottleneck. The key to successful multicore product development is system and application level software that takes full advantage of the parallel processing environment without being too difficult or time consuming to write and validate. Multicore silicon allows the flexibility to partition cores for specific functions to substantially increase processing power...