With today’s SoCs increasing in complexity, it’s no wonder the software needed to run on these devices is taking longer to create, adapt, and optimize for a given application on a given piece of hardware. No question practices and methodologies behind system design need to change.
In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both languages and almost unavoidable in C++. However, the handling of such dynamic memory can be problematic and inefficient. For desktop applications, where memory is freely available, these difficulties can be ignored. For real-time embedded systems, ignoring the issues is not an option.
These days embedded developers are looking for new and cost-efficient methods to maximize the performance of their application while still maintaining a high level of design efficiency. This paper takes a look at three proven methodologies for improved performance through simple code modifications.
In his keynote address, Dr. Rhines explores some of the issues confronting the EDA[] industry in today’s tough economic environment and presents historical data and trends of the semiconductor industry with conclusions that may surprise you.
Mentor Graphics announced new capabilities that extend the Calibre(r) platform to provide a complete solution for the control of thickness variability due to Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) at advanced nodes.
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