The easiest and most straightforward way to configure a multicore device is to have it be controlled by a single operating system through SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing). SMP works well, however, it ...

Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) RTOS provides automatic load balancing of multiple threads in a multicore environment. Also, numerous legacy multi-threaded embedded applications are deployed on a ...

Description: The design and implementation of modern multiprocessing operating systems. Topics include concurrent programming, real and virtual storage allocation, resource allocation and deadlock ...

I just had an MIS test today and was asked this question, which I completely forgot the answer to. So what does each do, and what is the difference between the two?

LONDON ST-Ericsson plans to demonstrate a symmetric multi processing mobile platform running the Symbian operating system at the Mobile World Congress.