Kalray demonstrerer unik 'Manycore' processsorer
Den franske fabless chipfirma, Kalray, vil i forbindelse med Embedded World demonstrere firmaets bemærkelsesværdige MPPA 256-core processor (in english).
Kalray SA will be at Embedded World exhibition in Nuremberg and showcasing its low power, high performance MPPA 256-core processor running 5 professional applications covering KALRAY’s primary target markets: real time professional video pre-processing and encoding, high performance cryptography, signal processing, augmented reality as well as Kalray's MPPA Accesscore integrated development environment.
Created in 2008, Kalray is a fabless semiconductor and software company that develops, markets and sells a new generation of manycore processors for imaging, telecommunication infrastructures, data security and network appliances, embedded applications and computing intensive applications.
Shortly after announcing the availability of the first batch of functional and running 28 nanometer (nm) MPPA-256 processor, KALRAY demonstrates professional applications targeting high performance; low power embedded applications.
The three 'spaces', that Kalray willl demonstrate at Embedded Worlds is:
• Video space: this space demonstrates how the MPPA-256 MANYCORE processor is capable of pre-processing, encoding and transcoding professional quality video in real-time. The demo highlights the processing power of the MPPA MANYCORE processor as it performs computing tasks usually devoted to costly, hard to program, energy consuming FPGAs or ASICs.
• Data Processing space: the MPPA MANYCORE processor can also act as an accelerator board capable of moving considerable quantity of numbers and data from and to the host computer. This space demonstrates high throughput applications performing massive amount of AES encryption work while moving data back and forth over MPPA last generation PCI Express Gen 3 interfaces. The 256 cores of the MPPA processor are optimally orchestrated to deliver one of the best processing power versus energy footprint ratio on the market.
• Augmented Reality space: the augmented reality space shows 3D Augmented Reality relying on a unique high-performance SLAM algorithm capable of delivering real-time augmented vision with a power budget that makes it compatible with nomadic hardware platforms (e.g. tablets, etc…)
• Signal Processing space: the MPPA MANYCORE is shown at work on FTR (Frequency-Time Representation), a computationally demanding signal processing algorithm that is used in a wide spectrum of professional applications (GSM, WiFi, radar, medical imaging, voice recognition…)
• MPPA Software Design space: the above mentioned professional applications have been designed by our customers using MPPA ACCESSCORE, KALRAY integrated software development environment. MPPA ACCESSCORE is based on industry standards C/C++ programming tools and is fully integrated in the Eclipse environment.
All demonstrated applications will be running on the MPPA DEVELOPPER workstation, KALRAY’s all-in-one flagship product, that takes full advantage of the MPPA-256 peak performance reaching 700 Gops (700 billion operations per second) and 230 GFlops (230 billion floating point operations per second) on a single chip with a typical runtime power consumption of 5 Watts.
The MPPA unique combination of efficient power computing, lower cost of acquisition (compared to FPGAs and ASICs) and high level programming tools dramatically improve our customer productivity and reduces their time to market in a wide range of embedded applications.
