We are witnessing an explosion of new applications for embedded microprocessors-everything from MP3 Internet-audio players to wireless phones with Web browsers. Although the general-purpose processors ...

Until recently SoC technology was considered the exclusive domain of high-tech multinational companies. That's because of the high entrance barriers: the need for diverse and complex expertise, the ...

Many DSP, 8-, or 16-bit microcontroller developers continue to cling to assembler while their colleagues dealing with 32- or 64-bit processors work exclusively with ...

Compilers often translate source code for a high-level language, such as C++, to object code for the current computer architecture, such as Intel x64. The object modules produced from multiple ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...