TVS has launched its onine engineering event, the Multicore Challenge for 2012.
The Multicore Challenge is an annual event that considers the challenges surrounding developing software products built on multicore hardware.
The online event, which is held in Bristol, is aimed at designers and managers who wish to keep up to date with developments and attend all the exciting webcasts between now and September 2012.
"Chip manufacturers are moving to multicore designs (i.e. multiple CPU cores on a single chip) to achieve the relentless drive for improved performance at lower power demanded by consumers," said TVS, the software testing, hardware verification specialist.
"The problem is that the programmer now needs to write their program to run on multiple CPUs. That means working out what can be executed in parallel and then how to synchronise between those parallel executions. That is hard, very hard to do," said TVS.
In 2011 the event attracted over 100 delegates to Bristol in September 2011 with talks from international companies such as ARM and ST-Ericsson, academics from Bristol University and local multicore start-ups such as XMOS and PicoChip.
“Our speakers gave a clear overview of the challenges and some potential solutions and the panel at the end was extremely lively," said TVS CEO, Mike Bartley.
Between now and the Multicore Challenge III there will be a number of webinars from companies like Intel, ARM and IBM looking in depth at the hardware, the programming languages and tools needed and the verification and debug techniques.
By signing up to the LinkedIn Group delegates can ensure complimentary invites to events and take part in the online discussions and debates.
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