Imperas Launches Open Virtual Platforms
by Bryon Moyer, Embedded Technology Journal

Seeding a saturated solution for optimal crystal growth can be a
tricky business. The highest-quality, largest crystals grow when
given lots of time for the molecules to orient themselves in the
lattice. Seeding too late can result in chaotic explosive nucleation,
small granularity, and low quality. Seed too early, and, well, there
may not technically be a problem, but being an impatient species,
if we don’t see crystal growth quickly enough, we tend to get
bored and move the seed elsewhere.
Saturation is something of a measure of potential, of pentup
demand. There is more and more willingness to orient
along coordinated lines, but that initial seed is missing, around
which everything can congregate. The multicore market, while…

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Simon Davidmann ED Online ID #18725 April 14, 2008

“You say you want a revolution? Well, you know . . . we all want to change the world.”

John Lennon penned that opening line of The Beatles’ “Revolution” in 1968. And it’s just as relevant now as it was 40 years ago. The electronics industry stands on the threshold of an era of creative innovation as it rushes toward multicore system-on-a-chip (SoC) design.

The increased number of processors in consumer devices that formed the multicore trend has disrupted the existing sequential software flow. Unlike Lennon’s lyric that promised a revolution, the electronics industry is still waiting for one to manage the way in which multicore architectures can be handled in a productive and efficient manner.

Of course, virtual platforms with proprietary languages have been introduced throughout the last 10 years or so, but have lacked…

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EDACafe Interviews Simon Davidmann, April 2nd 2008