And if you read and understand the register for a few weeks you stand a very good chance of actually getting a clue why you've missed the mark by a country mile.
Re: Operating System.
Nobody said that the multi-core processor _has_ to be used purely symetrically.
The way multimedia operations are handled is changing, a few years ago a so called "MPEG4 Codec chip" was actually a traditional CPU with a SIMD DSP strapped to it.... With improvements in technology we now do the whole thing in software on a normal CPU. Some of those cores may be used for nothing more than running the current codec, and communicate with the OS via semaphores!
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And if you read and understand the register for a few weeks you stand a very good chance of actually getting a clue why you've missed the mark by a country mile.
Re: Operating System.
Nobody said that the multi-core processor _has_ to be used purely symetrically.
The way multimedia operations are handled is changing, a few years ago a so called "MPEG4 Codec chip" was actually a traditional CPU with a SIMD DSP strapped to it.... With improvements in technology we now do the whole thing in software on a normal CPU. Some of those cores may be used for nothing more than running the current codec, and communicate with the OS via semaphores!