Multicore processors are adding a new dimension of performance to the traditional realm of embedded software design. To take advantage of multicore processors, developers must learn the ins and outs ...

Coverity Inc. and Worksoft Inc. on Tuesday will reveal wares intended to improve software quality, focusing respectively on concurrency and ease of use. Coverity is announcing its Coverity Prevent 2.3 ...

Transactional memory systems represent a paradigm shift in concurrent programming by abstracting low-level lock management and enabling sequences of operations to be executed as atomic transactions.

Concurrency adds complexity for which the industry lacks appropriate tools, and the problem has grown to the point where errors can creep into designs with no easy or consistent way to detect them. In ...

The hardware we rely on is changing rapidly as ever-faster chips are replaced by ever-increasing numbers of cores. As a result, concurrency and parallelism, niche features today, will soon be a basic ...

Virginia Tech assistant professor Chao Wang has received a grant from the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program to create software that can find vulnerabilities in concurrent software ...

Coverity and Worksoft on Tuesday will reveal wares intended to improve software quality, focusing respectively on concurrency and ease of use. Coverity is announcing its Coverity Prevent 2.3 source ...