Vector Processor
Revisiting Supercomputer Architectures
The chronology of high performance computing can be divided into “ages” based on the predominant systems architectures for the period. Starting in the late 1970s vector processors dominated HPC. By the end of the next decade massively parallel processors were able to make a play for market leader. For the last half of the 1990s, [...]
AMD pins exascale vision on Fusion APUs
Chuck Moore, CTO in the chip maker’s Technology Group, did the talking about exascale, or the desire to create machines that can deliver more than 1,000 petaflops of number-crunching performance. Moore was one of the lead architects of the “Bulldozer” core used in the forthcoming Opteron processors, as well as for the Fusion hybrid CPU-GPU [...]
ARM boosted startup with Belgian DSP
The EE Times has a nice article on Cognovo.
In November 2009, shortly after ARM (Cambridge, England) said it would close its DSP development operation in Heverlee, Belgium, Cognovo took on approximately half ARM’s Belgian contigent, according to a local report. In addition, ARM provided the vector signal processing IP developed there [...]
Multimode vector radio dismantles barriers to SDR software portability
My friends at Sigmatix and Octoscope have a nice follow-on EE Times article about Vector SDRs. The original article (mentioning Sandbridge) is here.
As an excerpt: To ensure the cost reduction of SDR platforms via economies of scale, software portability across processors must be achieved. The new generation of SDR, called multimode vector radio (MVR), offers that [...]