Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...

Writing software for a network processor involves implementing inter-process communication and resource management functions at a level of complexity found in distributed computing applications. So, ...

Part one of this two-part article discussed current trends impacting the evolution of data processing architectures, including the implications of higher transistor budgets afforded by Moore’s Law, ...

The race to process more data faster using less power is creating a series of debug challenges at the system level, where developers need to be able to trace interactions across multiple and often ...

Spurred by the latest cyclical development boom, the semiconductor industry is entering a new golden era of custom processors, but this time ‘custom processor’ means something different. A generation ...