Embedded & Desktop Compilers - "What's the difference?" Web Seminar

Web Seminar

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Overview

A compiler is a tool that converts a high level programming language, like C or C++, into machine code (or assembly language) for a particular processor. It is always expected that a compiler will do a good job in making that conversion, generating optimal code as a result. Most modern compilers do perform excellent optimization, but they are also focused on the needs of desktop applications.

Embedded systems place special demands on a compiler, because they are so diverse in their design. Primarily, the embedded software developer needs to have very fine control over the behavior or the compiler and the code generation process. This session will take a detailed look at the required facilities and capabilities in compilers designed for embedded applications.

Resource constraints are a fact of life for all embedded designs: CPU power, memory size, or both. It is critical that an embedded compiler provides aggressive, but controlled optimizations to address these issues.

What You Will Learn

What facilities are specifically needed in compilers for embedded applications
When language extensions make sense
How optimization can impact code size, speed or both
Why writing assembly language should be outlawed

Colin Walls

A Technical Marketing Manager, Colin has over twenty-five years experience in the electronics industry, largely dedicated to embedded software. A frequent presenter at conferences and seminars and author of numerous technical articles and two books on embedded software, Colin is a member of the marketing team of the Mentor Graphics Embedded Systems Division, and is based in the UK.

Book: Embedded Software: The Works
Blog: The Colin Walls Blog

Who Should Attend

Embedded software engineers - both inexperienced and veterans
Technical managers leading embedded software development teams

Technical Instructions

Technical Requirements

What do I need to watch and hear this web seminar?

Mentor Graphics’ web seminars are delivered using Adobe Connect. To watch the seminar all you need to have installed is the Adobe Flash Player, version 8 or later on Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris. The Flash Player is already installed on over 98% of internet connected computers worldwide so you will not have to install any software prior to attending the meeting. You will be able to login to the seminar room 15 minutes prior to the start time on the day of the presentation. You can hear the audio using your computer’s speakers via VoIP (Voice over IP) and background music will play prior to the beginning of the presentation.

Detailed system requirements

Microsoft® Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise (32-bit edition)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 or later
Mozilla Firefox 2
Adobe Flash® Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows® XP Professional or Home Edition with Service Pack 2

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, 7
Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
Mozilla 1.x or later
Netscape 7.x
Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.x
Mozilla Firefox 1.x, 2.x
Mozilla 1.x
Netscape 8
Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Windows hardware requirements

Intel® Pentium® II 450MHz or faster processor or equivalent (1GHz recommended when screen sharing)
128MB of RAM

Mac OS X v10.4, 10.5 (Intel)

Firefox 1.5.0.3, 2.x
Safari 2.x
Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS X v10.4 (PowerPC®)

Safari 1.x, 2.x
Firefox 1.x
Mozilla 1.x
Netscape 7.x or later
Adobe Flash Player 8 or later

Mac OS hardware requirements

PowerPC G3 500MHz or faster or Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
128MB of RAM

Linux:

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® (REHL) 3 update 8; RHEL 4 update 4 (AS/ES/WS); Novell SUSE® 9.x or 10.1
Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, 2.x
Mozilla 1.7.x
SeaMonkey 1.0.5
Processor: Modern processor 800MHz or faster (1GHz recommended)
Memory: 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Solaris™

Mozilla 1.7
Adobe Flash Player 9 or later

Additional requirements

Minimum bandwidth 56Kbps

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