Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this ...

SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) is computer processing done by multiple processors that share a common operating system (OS) and memory. In symmetric multiprocessing, the processors share the same ...