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StarCore LLC to Dissolve By BDTI, 8/23/2006 The decision to dissolve StarCore LLC was issued by its board of directors on July 28th.  The venture, formed in 2002 by Agere, Freescale, and Infineon with the mission of  designing and licensing DSP cores, had succeeded in many of its design goals, but failed to generate the licensing revenue envisioned by its founders. BDTI performs a post mortem and looks at the future of StarCore technology. (More)

Ambric Discloses Massively Parallel Architecture By BDTI, 8/23/2006 On August 21st fabless semiconductor startup Ambric disclosed its new massively parallel processor architecture. Ambric joins a host of start-ups pursuing a similar idea: chaining together a large number of simple RISC-like processors in ways intended to avoid inter-processor communication bottlenecks and programming problems found in traditional multiprocessor systems. BDTI examines the architecture and programming model in the context of other massively parallel architectures. (More)

Case Study: Benchmarks for Tools, Software Libraries, and More By BDTI, 8/23/2006 Fully understanding system performance requires careful analysis of elements such as code-generation tools and third-party software libraries. (More)

Jeff Bier’s Impulse Response – A Game of Darts By Jeff Bier, 8/23/2006 Say you’re looking for an H.264 video decoder solution to integrate into your system, and you’re trying to compare what’s available. You figure this should be a straightforward process; after all, H.264 is a standards-based codec, so it should be easy to find apples-to-apples performance data. (More)