For years, processor manufacturers have been improving the performance of CPUs by increasing clock speed. The latest trend, however, in processor technology is multiple cores. Essentially, this means ...

Measurement and automation systems involving multiple devices often require accurate timing in order to facilitate event synchronization and data correlation. For example, an industrial automation ...

Programming languages are evolving to bring the software closer to hardware. As hardware architectures become more parallel (with the advent of multicore processors and FPGAs, for example), sequential ...