Many of the developments in silicon, software and development tools that embedded engineers use today first appeared in disciplines other than embedded computing, and have been adopted and adapted ...

San Mateo, Calif. – MIPS Technologies Inc. will wield a new competitive weapon in the embedded-processor wars this week, when it introduces hardware multithreading as an optional extension to its ...

Potentially substantial performance gains from the use of multithreading and multiprocessing architectures have captured the attention of designers of consumer devices and other electronic products.