For the programmer and system developer, this ecast offers a real-time look at multicore[] technology from the perspectives of a processor vendor, a virtual platform provider, an ESL solution provider, and an operating system and hypervisor software vendor. CoFluent Design, MIPS Technologies, Synopsys, and Wind River, sponsors of the Multicore Expo, will provide an introduction to the materials that they will be presenting in detail during the conference. Moderated by Markus Levy, chairman of the Multicore Expo, this ecast will introduce topics such as: * Scaling performance on one architecture running under Linux[] * Graphical modeling and simulation of multitask applications running on multicore architectures * Using virtual processor models to improve multicore software development productivity * Dealing with the unique challenges of applying virtualization[] to embedded devices

Presented by: CoFluent Design, MIPS Technologies, Synopsys, Wind River