Abstract: A system and a method for sharing a common system memory by a main processor and a plurality of secondary processors. The sharing of the common system memory enables the sharing of data between the processors. The data are loaded into the common memory by the main processor, which divides the data to be processed into data blocks. The size of the data blocks is equal to the size of the registers of the secondary processors. The main processor identifies an available secondary processor to process the first data block. The secondary processor processes the data block and returns the processed data block to the common system memory. The main processor may continue identifying available secondary processors and requesting the available secondary processors to process data blocks until all the data blocks have been processed.

Abstract: A system and method for using a processor thread as a debugger is presented. A computer system boots up and initiates a debugger thread. The debugger thread loads a robust, debugger operating system and executes the debugger operating system. Once the debugger thread is functioning, the debugger thread invokes an operational thread. In turn, the operational thread loads a primary operating system and may run various applications. While the operational thread executes the primary operating system and the applications, the debugger thread monitors the operational thread for proper functionality. When the operational thread crashes or terminates, the debugger thread retrieves operational data from the operational thread and provides the operational data to a software developer for analysis.

Abstract: A system and method for compiling source code for multi-processor environments is presented. Source code is compiled which creates an object file whereby the object file includes multiple object code subtasks. Source code subtasks are compiled into object code subtasks using one of three approaches which are 1) a lowbrow approach, 2) a brute force approach, and 3) a program directive approach. Each object code subtask is formatted to run on a particular processor type with a particular architecture, such as a microprocessor-based architecture or a digital signal processor-based architecture. During runtime, each object code is loaded onto its corresponding processor type for execution.