Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.

The real change now affecting the embedded market is that the application software is also being asked to view the general purpose processor element using a multiprocessing paradigm so that this ...

A clearer understanding of the differences between multithreading on a single coprocessor and utilizing multiple processors is essential to designers of wireless systems. Cell phones were among the ...

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Multiprocessing, multithreading and evented I/O: the trade-offs in Web servers. A Web server needs to support concurrency. The server should service clients in a timely, fair manner to ensure that no ...

As computer makers brawl for the right to sell the most multiprocessor “servers” into computer rooms, engineers can quietly benefit from this competition. Putting a server into an engineering lab as ...