Code portability problems arise because the developer and a reuser may be in competitive organizations. Because the developer pays the burdens of designing for reuse while the benefits accrue to the reuser, in order to ensure success a business model is necessary to incent the developer to bear this cost.
No strangers to multiprocessing concepts, military radar designers are primed to embrace multicore embedded processing. Emerging system solutions help ease the way.
Next-gen airborne radar imaging needs more processing capability while meeting stringent power constraints. Multicore technology addresses the scalability and parallel-programming challenges of these next-generation systems.
As the military continues to shift its demand toward complete stand-alone rugged box-level systems, PC/104 is closing ranks as the dominant expansion form-factor in those solutions.
Parallel and Serial FPDP continue to hold a solid position for high-bandwidth, low-overhead data movement applications. They shine where simplicity rules and the more complex fabric and network technologies fall short.
