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 ...

Taking a significant leap forward from previous versions, the LabVIEW 8 graphical development platform adds distributed intelligence within a suite of capabilities that ease the design, distribution, ...

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 ...