Ray Alderman, VITA
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Multicore vs. multiprocessing vs. multicore multiprocessing
Some think multicore and multiprocessing are the same, but not so, according to VITA's exec director Ray Alderman. Multiprocessing architectures such as Tightly Coupled/Shared-Everything (TCSE), Snugly Coupled/Shared-Something (SCSS), and Loosely Coupled/Shared-Nothing (LCSN) are explained, along with how heterogenous and homogenous multicore fit into the picture.
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The invasion of the form factors
The embedded market is proliferated with dozens of different form factors falling into three distinct categories: rack mounted; canned; and snap-on. But how has this segmentation affected high tech, and what are the motives behind it?
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The ever-changing business model
Ray describes the trends and bends of the military, industrial, and telecom industries' board markets.
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Is it time for a new mezzanine card standard?
From the 50 mezzanine standards on the market in 1990 to the PMC specs started by the IEEE, to the S-bus from Sun Microsystems, then onto PCIbus and PrPMCs and now XMC ... the industry should start thinking about a new mezzanine standard for embedded applications.
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Multicore Disparities
The last time the CPU makers got into a flap, it was Intel’s Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) versus the workstation CPU makers (HP-PA, Sun SPARC, DEC Alpha, Motorola 88000, and the MIPS processors) and their Reduced Instruction Set Computers (RISC) machines. Intel won the battle because of all the CISC code running on low-end PCs. The installed base of UNIX code running on workstations at the time just couldn’t hold any significant market share at the desktop. But Intel did adopt some RISC techniques in their x86 cores after the dust settled.
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Multicore Disparities
The last time the CPU makers got into a flap, it was Intel’s Complex Instruction Set Computers (CISC) versus the workstation CPU makers (HP-PA, Sun SPARC, DEC Alpha, Motorola 88000, and the MIPS processors) and their Reduced Instruction Set Compu...
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What we do and donít believe at VITA
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What we do and don't believe at VITA
With many of the new VITA documents about to become American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standards, I have received similar questions about them from users on a number of occasions. Since I give this speech over the phone several times per month, maybe it is best that I write my consistent answers in this column.
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What we do and donít believe at VITA
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The four horsemen are coming
