Embedded Software Blog

Posts tagged with 'AMP'

Introducing OpenMCAPI

Posted Mar 30, 2011, by Hollis Blanchard

Mentor recently shared OpenMCAPI, our MCAPI implementation, with the world under an open source license (BSD). We’re proud of it because it was especially designed for portability, and while it’s sophisticated enough to offer advanced features like asynchronous communication, it’s simple enough that it can be easily understood and deployed on low-resource embedded systems. So what … Read More

Tags: Open Source, Multi-OS, MCAPI, Multicore, AMP, Linux

AMP & SMP revisited

Posted Jul 12, 2010, by Colin Walls

Multicore continues to be a hot topic. Recent Web seminars, that we have run, were well attended, with lots of searching questions. I have discussed the subject here before, looking at the differences between AMP [Asymmetric Multi-Processing] and SMP [Symmetric Multi-Processing], for example. In various recent discussions with colleagues and customers, I have realized that there is more clarification … Read More

Tags: Nucleus, Multi-OS, AMP, Multicore, RTOS, SMP, MCAPI