You can spend money on third-party PC optimization tools to improve performance, but Microsoft PC Manager claims to deliver ...

An important aspect in software engineering is the ability to distinguish between premature, unnecessary, and necessary ...

Audio and video software for consumer media products can be quite complex, combining real-time signal processing, network protocols, complex I/O, and sophisticated user interfaces. Code and device ...

Apple's Developer program has published a document offering some tips for programmers looking to optimize their applications for the Power Macintosh G5 and the PowerPC 970 processor. It reads: ...

[Editor's note: This paper was presented at ESC Boston 2006. For more papers from this conference, see Embedded.com.] Since many DSP systems are real-time systems, at least one (and probably more) of ...

Over the past decade, technology has become an increasingly integral part of modern business. Gone are the days when a company was run solely on the intuitions and gut instincts of a single person, ...

Power is a ubiquitous concern, and it is impossible to optimize a system’s energy consumption without considering the system as a whole. Tremendous strides have been made in the optimization of a ...