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Virtualization and Fault Handling

In several of my previous posts I have written about the fact that embedded virtualization has low overhead, maintains determinism and all that good stuff. I have also written...

15 years 3 months ago

A Sea of Cores, Now What?

A great number of cores gives more processing power, but this powerneeds to be harnessed. The easiest way to control a sea of cores is ofcourse to run a single operating system...

15 years 3 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Revalidated

One day, I get this phone call. "We're working with the system, we seethe calls that update the exception handlers early on – connecting theclock routines, etc. Then not very much...

15 years 4 months ago

Article: Multi-Core Slow Down

An interesting article by Dan Woods on Multi-core slowdown. The article tries to temper people's expectations with regards to mArticle: Multi-Core Slow Downulticore. The basic...

15 years 6 months ago

Primary Multicore Software Configurations

Many people ask the question as to what the best approach would be forthem to go to multicore and/or virtualization. This is a great questionto start a discussion as there is not a...

15 years 7 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: ABI

What's in an ABI? An Application Binary Interface is a lot like a API – Applications Programming Interface, except instead of just telling you how to make a call, what parameters...

15 years 8 months ago

Quit bugging me: surprise NaN!

You've got a complex system. There are dozens of tasks, a handful of interrupt routines. Your system runs fine, for hours or sometimes days on end. The loading on your system is...

15 years 9 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: quick shell tricks - using addresses

Here's a quick-trick you can do from the target side shell. It might come in handy. How-to run programs and pass variables by their addresses… First I'll allocate some space...

15 years 10 months ago

Quit Bugging Me: Induction

Working on a customer problem once, we had an interesting phenomena. Upgrading a system with a large VME cage and several boards, the customer replaced older processor boards with...

15 years 11 months ago

Serial Intent

Howdy out there, I realize this is a blog that’s supposed to be about real-time programming issues, and mostly I’ve posted about planetary and space based projects, with a few...

15 years 11 months ago