Posted on Monday, May 8th, 2006 at 2:08 pm
Virtutech, Inc., the leading provider of full system simulation technology for the development and testing of software for advanced electronic systems, announced the results of the second annual debugging survey conducted at the Embedded Systems Conference held in San Jose, Calif. April 3-7, 2006. The survey concludes that debugging continues to be the most time-consuming and costly phase of the software development lifecycle, with 63 percent of respondents citing debugging as the most significant problem they encounter, almost double any other single task. Furthermore, the survey highlighted the growth of multicore processing and the need for innovative debugging technology to meet the consequent challenges. The respondents were developers and IT decision-makers in the embedded industry.
The growth of multicore processing and the consequent programming challenges were apparent at the Embedded Systems Conference from the multitude of new lectures addressing the subject. Multicore processing is one of the most important hardware innovations for the embedded space, because it allows for better computing performance while taking up less space and generating less heat. Seventy-five percent of survey respondents said they are working on at least one multicore project and 9 percent are currently working solely on multicore projects.
