Backups and More with rsync
Learn how to use this powerful utility that almost all experts use in their day-to-day work, to perform tasks like back-ups, and much more. The rsync utility can be used cross-platform—Linux, Mac OS…
Joy of Programming: Bug Hunt
Every programmer knows that debugging is akin to a detective’s work. In this column, we’ll cover this “bug hunt” process with an example of how the Intel Pentium processor bug was discovered. Software…
Dissecting Instruction Level Parallelism
Instruction Level Parallelism (ILP) technology is often used to improve the performance of embedded processors in application-specific domains like Digital Signal Processing. Today’s VLIW (Very Large Instruction Word) DSP architectures are specially designed…




