What Can Intel® Multi-Core Technology do to Enhance Embedded and Communications Applications? Plenty. Resources

Multi-core methodologies

• Intel® multi-core technology
• Multi-core migration guide
• Inside Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

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• Introducing the 45nm Next-Generation Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

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• Intel® Software Network

Symmetric multithreading (SMT)

• Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology

Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP)

• Best Practices: Adoption of Symmetric Multiprocessing Using VxWorks* and Intel® Multi-core Processors

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• Developing Multithreaded Applications: A Platform Consistent Approach

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• Supra-linear Packet Processing Performance with Intel® Multi-core Processors (Snort* threading case study - function decomposition, pthreads, pipelining, flow pinning)

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• Optimizing Software for Multi-core Processors (AMIDE* threading case study - data decomposition, pthreads)

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• Optimizing Embedded System Performance-Impact of Data Prefetching on a Medical Imaging Application

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• Multi-core improves SIP performance for IMS

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• Intel® Software Development Products, Training, and Support Speed Optimization of Multi-Core Designs

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• Multiple Approaches to Multithreaded Applications
• Writing Parallel Programs: a multi-language tutorial introduction
• Intel® Concurrency Checker (CFinder)
• Software Techniques for Shared-Cache Multi-Core Systems

Videos

• Intel® multi-core technology
• Discover how Intel® multi-core processors take your performance, scalability, and energy efficiency to the next level

Tools and support

• Tools for multi-core
  Intel provides a set of software development products, training and support to help migrate to and speed optimization of multi-core designs.

White papers

• Accelerating security applications with Intel® multi-core processors

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  Intel demonstrated performance improvements on an intrusion detection and prevention security application running on four processor cores and without threading the application.

Related information

• Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
  Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems provide breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, extended lifecycle support for compute-intensive and embedded communications applications.
• Intel® Core™2 Duo desktop processors
  Ideal for embedded computing, the Intel® Core™2 Duo desktop processor delivers the exceptional performance-intensive architecture to meet the needs of embedded platforms.
• Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processors
  Ideal for embedded computing, the Intel® Core™2 Duo mobile processor delivers performance-per-watt to meet the needs of embedded platforms.
• Intel® Core™2 Quad desktop processor
  The Intel® Core™2 Quad processor delivers exceptional performance and responsiveness in multi-threaded and multi-tasking environments.
• Intel® Xeon® processors LV and ULV
  Embedded systems with the Intel® Xeon® processor LV and ULV combines the benefits of two high-performance execution cores delivering significantly greater performance-per-watt over previous single-core Intel Xeon processors.