Semiconductor Engineering

RISC-V decoupled Vector Processing Unit (VPU) For HPC

A technical paper titled “Vitruvius+: An Area-Efficient RISC-V Decoupled Vector Coprocessor for High Performance Computing Applications” was published by researchers at Barcelona Supercomputing Center ...
TechNewsWorld

ClearSpeed Unveils Multithreaded Array Processor

ClearSpeed Technology, a provider of low-power chip-based systems, has unveiled the CS301 processor, a multithreaded chip designed to improve performance and reduce power consumption for ...
Design-Reuse

Vitruvius+: An Area-Efficient RISC-V Decoupled Vector Coprocessor for High Performance Computing Applications

The maturity level of RISC-V and the availability of domain-specific instruction set extensions, like vector processing, make RISC-V a good candidate for supporting the integration of specialized ...
Design-Reuse

CEVA Introduces MUST Multi-core System Technology, Adds Vector Floating-point Capabilities for CEVA-XC DSP Architecture Framework

Architecture framework further enriched with full support for ARM® AXI4 specification, AMBA 4 ACE cache coherency and a broad range of optimized tightly coupled extensions for wireless applications ...
Electronic Design

PowerPC/VME Board Combo Takes On Vector Processing

The V4G4b Computing Node, a Quad PowerPC VME board, uses Motorola's PowerPC 7410 chip with an AltiVec vector processing unit. This combination expands the ...
EDN

CEVA Unveils Industry’s First Multipurpose Programmable HD Video and Image Processing Platform for Connected Multimedia Devices

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Mobile World Congress – CEVA Inc, (Nasdaq: CEVA; LSE: CVA), a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property ...
insideHPC

The AMD Stream Processor

Since this was announced at SC’06 it isn’t exactly news, but it is interesting and dovetails with the GPU discussion we had earlier. AMD is doing their own accelerated processing in the form of the ...