SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Target Compiler Technologies, a Belgium-based provider of design tools for application-specific instruction set processors (ASIPs), has expanded its reach to the U.S. and Canada ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Tensilica Inc. chief Chris Rowen said his company's research team has made progress in designing a compiler that will convert high-level C-language directly into processor gates.

If you're already on the configurable processor bandwagon, you know all about the beauty of having programmability after silicon implementation, the benefits of fixing bugs in software, and the ...

Interest in creating programmable intellectual property (IP), especially embedded processors or application-specific IP (ASIPs), continues to rise as tools that overcome its hurdles emerge. The latest ...

Multi-core processors theoretically can run many threads of code in parallel, but some categories of operation currently bog down attempts to raise overall performance by parallelizing computing. Is ...

Java compilers take center stage in this second article in the JVM performance optimization series. Eva Andreasson introduces the different breeds of compiler and compares performance results from ...

If you want to understand where we are going with computer architectures and the compilers that drive them, it is instructive to look at how compilers have made the leap from architecture to ...