It’s very likely indeed that whatever you are reading this on will have a multi-core processor. They’re now the norm, but the path to they octa-or-more-core chip in your phone has gone from individual ...

Until the early 2000s, the computer processors available on the market were essentially all single-core chips. There were some niche layouts that used multiple processors on the same board for ...

The company has unveiled a suite of tools and methods that promise to optimize the mapping of applications on embedded multiprocessor system-on-chip (MPSoC) platforms. According to the European ...

“Heterogeneous multi-core architectures combine a few “host” cores, optimized for single-thread performance, with many small energy-efficient “accelerator” cores for data-parallel processing, on a ...

Representing the 8th generation of the Tensilica Xtensa LX processor family from Cadence, the LX8 improves system-level performance by as much as 50%. The 32-bit RISC processor IP serves as a ...