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MATLAB-to-C: Are Embedded Programmers Now Obsolete? By BDTI, 10/17/2007 Earlier this month The Mathworks announced embedded C code generation capability for its popular MATLAB tool, which is widely used for digital signal processing algorithm design. According to The Mathworks, the new Embedded MATLAB capability is intended to enable MATLAB users to generate efficient C code directly from MATLAB source code files for use in embedded applications. (More)

ARM Extends Multi-Core Strategy with Cortex-A9 By BDTI, 10/17/2007 ARM recently announced the Cortex-A9, a high-performance licensable application processor that extends ARM’s push into the multi-core arena. The Cortex-A9 provides support for multi-core implementations via ARM’s “MPCore” technology, which includes hardware for maintaining cache coherency and managing memory transfers. (More)

Jeff Bier's Impulse Response—When Worlds Collide By Jeff Bier, 10/17/2007 When I was a kid, 10,000 lines of code was considered a decent-sized application. Now, it seems, we’re on the verge of seeing applications with 10,000 threads. Or at least, that’s what graphics chip maker Nvidia is envisioning. Nvidia recently announced the Tesla product family, which includes a chip with 128 processors and hardware support for execution of thousands of threads. (More)

Case Study: How Can You Prove You’ve Got the Best Multimedia Solution? By BDTI, 10/17/2007 As multimedia systems grow in complexity, system and SoC developers are increasingly relying on vendors to provide “solutions”—combinations of hardware and software that implement complete multimedia functions such as audio and video compression and decompression.  Vendors have responded by offering a growing number of such solutions. (More)