Perspective
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“It transforms into a bird
Its name is Peng
The wingspan of Peng
We know not how many thousand leagues” - Chuang Tzu
Sometimes you can fall for a trap when you work on the same project with the same people for years on end. You start assuming that the thoughts and state of mind shared by the folks you iteract with completely represents the state of mind of the general engineering community. I may have recently fallen into this trap with regard to the adoption and leveraging of multicore processors in the embedded community.
Last month at Multicore Expo, I heard a speaker comment on the need to make code “Multicore ready”. My initial thoughts in reaction were “What do you mean Multicore ready? I’ve been pitching software techniques for Multicore for over 3 years now. Everyone should be moving already.”
I could sense many attendees responded positively to the speaker’s comment. This led me to wonder if I’d fallen into the trap of having a perspective limited by the engineers I have the most contact with (other engineers at Intel) and the work I’ve been doing.
So my question is where are folks at with leveraging multicore processors in their embedded design? Are we still predominately in a state of wondering what to do with multicore processors and how to make code ‘Multicore ready’? Or are we well past that point and into planning our next design to take further advantage of multicore processors?
I’m basically asking - what help do customers need?
Posted on: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 at 7:19 pm 
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