http://blogs.freescale.com Freescale experts bloggers bring insights to embedded trends, technologies, tools and techniques. Wed, 30 May 2012 16:16:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://1.gravatar.com/blavatar/9b08b390e128850ec002e62a1b598c3a?s=96&d=http%3A%2F%2Fs2.wp.com%2Fi%2Fbuttonw-com.png http://blogs.freescale.com freescale-every-connection-mattershttp://feedburner.google.com http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~3/_chEhqwn02A/ http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/05/03/expert-viewpoint-fused-core-logic-multithreading-for-multicore-performance/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 20:33:26 +0000 John Dixon http://blogs.freescale.com/?p=8262 By John Dixon – The term ‘multithreading’ is a generic description of the method used to increase the utilization of a single core with thread level as well as instruction level parallelism. In my conversations with multiple customers on this topic following our recent QorIQ Advanced Multiprocessing (AMP) series announcements, including the T4240 based on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.freescale.com&#038;blog=12186737&#038;post=8262&#038;subd=freescalehome&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~4/_chEhqwn02A" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/05/03/expert-viewpoint-fused-core-logic-multithreading-for-multicore-performance/feed/ 1 johndixonfsl http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/05/03/expert-viewpoint-fused-core-logic-multithreading-for-multicore-performance/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~3/aRr2SaAPpcs/ http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/03/21/the-power-comes-to-the-tower-system-platform/#comments Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:02:04 +0000 Tom Thompson http://blogs.freescale.com/?p=7817 By Tom Thompson – No, this article is not about a missing Lord of the Rings movie. (Although that would be cool.) It’s about the fact that Freescale microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessor units (MPUs) based on Power Architecture technology are now part of the designer’s toolkit when using the Freescale Tower System platform for embedded systems development. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.freescale.com&#038;blog=12186737&#038;post=7817&#038;subd=freescalehome&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~4/aRr2SaAPpcs" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/03/21/the-power-comes-to-the-tower-system-platform/feed/ 1 tomthompson7 Figure 1. The MPC8309 is equipped with a rich set of industrial networking interfaces. Figure 2. The TWR-MPC8309 has memory and a numerous peripheral interfaces. Figure 3. The TWR-MPC8309-KIT, along with the optional MPC830x-TLCD module. http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/03/21/the-power-comes-to-the-tower-system-platform/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~3/89rAakl6nHs/ http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/02/27/m2m-its-mobile-and-embedded/#comments Mon, 27 Feb 2012 14:24:50 +0000 Iain Davidson http://blogs.freescale.com/?p=7453 By Iain Davidson &#8212; This week is a BIG week in Europe. We have Mobile World Congress and embedded world in the same week and I’m torn. Where do I go to talk M2M? The answer? I will be in both places, two days each. At Mobile World Congress, it’s all about M2M for healthcare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.freescale.com&#038;blog=12186737&#038;post=7453&#038;subd=freescalehome&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~4/89rAakl6nHs" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/02/27/m2m-its-mobile-and-embedded/feed/ 2 iaindavidson http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/02/27/m2m-its-mobile-and-embedded/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~3/Q5rlhvPZlf8/ http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/30/making-the-move-to-multicore-core-communications-and-channels-part-5/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:45:55 +0000 Rob Oshana http://blogs.freescale.com/?p=7149 By Rob Oshana – This article continues my discussion of migrating legacy network routing software to a multicore platform. While multiple cores can boost throughput, care must be taken in how they access shared data to avoid corrupting it or using stale information. This can be managed by using the processor’s memory manager or hypervisor to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.freescale.com&#038;blog=12186737&#038;post=7149&#038;subd=freescalehome&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~4/Q5rlhvPZlf8" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/30/making-the-move-to-multicore-core-communications-and-channels-part-5/feed/ 1 roboshana Figure 1. The Freescale P4080 uses queues to efficiently route packets to plane software and to establish inter-core communications. Figure 2. P4080 FMan and QMan share Ethernet ports for egress packets http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/30/making-the-move-to-multicore-core-communications-and-channels-part-5/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~3/Vg2TP3xZ8jc/ http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/02/making-the-move-to-multicore-switching-strategies-part-2/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:24:04 +0000 Rob Oshana http://blogs.freescale.com/?p=6860 By Rob Oshana &#8211; In a previous blog article, I provided a general overview of networking system functions and components. I pointed out how the throughput of such devices could be improved by taking advantage of the capabilities of multicore processors. The processing load can be divvied up among the multiple cores to increase throughput, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blogs.freescale.com&#038;blog=12186737&#038;post=6860&#038;subd=freescalehome&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/freescale-every-connection-matters/~4/Vg2TP3xZ8jc" height="1" width="1"/> http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/02/making-the-move-to-multicore-switching-strategies-part-2/feed/ 7 roboshana Figure 1. How networking system software is partitioned http://blogs.freescale.com/2012/01/02/making-the-move-to-multicore-switching-strategies-part-2/