Mentor Blogs

Embedded software development tools are important to all developers and a topic that I frequently discuss [like here]. The way such tools are described by vendors is interesting. For example, there might be a reference to an “optimizing compiler”. That is rather meaningless, as all compilers are optimizing to at least some degree. For an embedded compiler, the important factors are the quality … Read More

RTOS, Development Tools, Debugging, profiling, Nucleus

I never cared for really long blog entries, so I’m splitting this up into a couple of posts. If you missed my last post you’ll want to go back and read it – or you’ll probably be hopelessly lost as we dive into my multi-core Sudoku solving dilemma. As you’ll recall, last time I took my clever Sudoku solver and ran it on an 8 core PPC design, and found I got a 3 X speed up. When I looked into why, it … Read More

ppc, profiling, Multicore

Yeah, it’s been a while since my last blog post. Of course, it’s all about the software, but in blogging it’s all about content – and keeping it fresh. So, here I am, with some fresh content. I took a new job here at Mentor and now I’m working in our Embedded Software Division. Despite being employed by a hardware tools company I think that this software stuff is going to be around for a while. … Read More

ppc, profiling, Multicore