Latency: A discussion by Industry experts on the HW and SW considerations for embedded devices

There was a recent discussion by a number of industry experts on “Latency”. It was an interesting read as the perspective of a hardware designer and software developer are very different. In the end the embedded system has to perform the function it’s intended for so the end system developer has to consider both HW and SW. This “Experts At the Table” series included the following people:

• Chris Rowen, CTO at Tensilica
• Andrew Caples, senior product manager for the Nucleus RTOS in the Embedded Software Division of Mentor Graphics
• Drew Wingard, CTO at Sonics
• Larry Hudepohl, vice president of hardware engineering at MIPS
• Barry Pangrle, senior power methodology engineer at Nvidia

Excerpts from the discussion are posted here:

• Where does latency stem from and how much of a software issue is it?
• A hardware of software issue?
• Device partitioning, cloud, wide I/O and more …