By Joe Pavlat
Jim St. Leger is the Platform Technology Marketing Manager in Intel’s Embedded and Communications Group (ECG). Here is an interview with Jim, where he spoke with Joe Pavlat, CompactPCI and AdvancedTCA Systems Editorial Director. Joe is also the president of PICMG.
Editor’s Note: Readers will also find it helpful to review a white paper by Lori M. Matassa, Software Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel, on converting PowerPC to IA that can be found here.
This architecture migration paper addresses the high-level software implications developers should consider when running on IA. As well, it covers software development tools, another topic of this interview.
In an answer, Jim says, “It is more about intelligently architecting your workload, thinking about whether it lends itself to data parallelism and whether you have granularity issues. When you go from single-threaded to dual threads, are most of those threads going to have the same amount of work to go to two different cores? And it is in really thinking about those approaches that an intelligent architecture can be determined.”
