Embedded Software Blog

Posts tagged with 'SMP'

Device drivers on SMP systems

Posted Nov 14, 2011, by Colin Walls

As I am on vacation, I thought that I would invite colleagues to provide a guest blog and Faheem Sheikh came up with the goods … Multicore embedded designs are becoming increasingly common – a topic that I have addressed before. This presents some new challenges to software developers. Faheem was talking to an existing user of our Nucleus RTOS, who is considering a multicore design and, … Read More

Tags: multi-core, device drivers, Nucleus SMP, SMP, Nucleus

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