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Open Virtual Platforms Heralds Start of New Era for Virtual Prototyping, Embedded Software Development
Imperas Unleashes Open Source Initiative to Establish Common, Open Standard for Multicore SoC Design, March 3rd 2008

Multiprocessing development is bigger challenge than software test, says poll
March 19th 2007
Developing systems with multiple processors is a bigger challenge in embedded systems than software test and debug according to a poll of EE Times Europe readers.

Legacy software clogs chip design
Electronicsweekly.com, March 7th 2007
Software re-use is leading to some horrendously clunky software being put into products, said executives at the Globalpress Summit conference in Monterey last week.

Confronting Parallelism: The View from Berkeley
HPCWire, March 1st 2007
To explore the important new paper on the challenges of parallelism, "The View from Berkeley," HPCwire talked with NERSC computer scientist John Shalf and David Patterson, professor of computer science at UC-Berkeley. Shalf and Patterson are among the co-authors of "The View from Berkeley."

The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software
Dr. Dobbs, March 30th 2006
The biggest sea change in software development since the OO revolution is knocking at the door, and its name is Concurrency.