Speed is essential in multimedia, graphics and signal processing. Sometimes programmers resort to assembly language to get every last bit of speed out of their machines. GCC offers an intermediate ...

Writing software for a network processor involves implementing inter-process communication and resource management functions at a level of complexity found in distributed computing applications. So, ...

Application-specific ICs, like these from IDT, take the processing burden from a central network processor. However, compute-intensive packet searches that serve such purposes as routing, security, ...