Multi-Core Programming Approach in the Real-Time Virtual Instrumentation

Author

Winiecki, Wieslaw ; Bilski, Piotr

Author_Institution

Inst. of Radioelectron., Warsaw Univ. of Technol., Warsaw

fYear

2008

fDate

12-15 May 2008

Firstpage

1031

Lastpage

1036

Abstract

The paper presents the design of the virtual instrument working in the real-time mode, run on the computer equipped with the dual-core processor. The new hardware solution for the multi-core processing and its importance for the instrument design is presented. The software support for such a computation using the National Instruments LabVIEW environment is described in detail. Description of the virtual instrument implementation of the parallel processing technique using two processor cores is presented. Finally, the results of the instrument´s analysis and the comparison with the single core version are included. The paper is supped up with conclusions and the future prospects.

Keywords

multiprocessing systems; parallel processing; real-time systems; virtual instrumentation; National Instruments LabVIEW environment; dual-core processor; multicore programming approach; parallel processing technique; real-time virtual instrumentation; Application software; Data acquisition; Hardware; Instruments; Multicore processing; Multithreading; Operating systems; Parallel processing; Programming environments; Programming profession; LabVIEW; Real-Time mode; multi-core processors; virtual instrumentation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference Proceedings, 2008. IMTC 2008. IEEE

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1540-3

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2008.4547189

Filename

4547189