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System on a Chip Concurrent Development

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the plug-and-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The old silo method of chip development, with hardware and firmware developers barely interacting with each other, won't cut it in today's fast-moving industry. IBM DeveloperWorks has the third in a series of articles about system-on-a-chip design. The author, Sam Siewert, displays the development tools and processes that speed system on a chip design and get all your developers working together effectively."

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  1. This gave me an idea. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why not make a CPU with a built-in FPGA, then load bits of the kernel into that hardware?

    Call me crazy, but that might be more efficient than just throwing more cores at the problem.

  2. Why don't we fix software development first. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Before corrupting hardware