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Hardware Handlers - Latency Answer?
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Posted by: TotalRecall
EETimes has news on a new method of IRQ and task scheduling to be introduced by Xyron Semiconductor:
SAN MATEO, Calif. — Startup intellectual property house Xyron Semiconductor next week will describe a technology that uses SRAM bits to take care of some of the more mundane tasks that tend to slow down a processor's performance, EE Times has learned.
Hoping to sell its technology to microprocessor vendors, Xyron (Vancouver, Wash.) believes processor designers are better off throwing more hardware at task switching and interrupt scheduling in the same way that an executive can get more done with the help of a secretary. Rather than being handled in software, internal and external interrupts are directed to the RTOS hardware.
By having this hardware mechanism built into a CPU, the latency normally associated with these tasks are taken out of the picture, allowing a CPU to spend its time doing more useful things like decoding audio and video algorithms, the company said.
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Posted by: SKYHN
It may take the latency out, but will it still give all those software errors that task schedulers and what not cause?
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