interesting... Picked off a email newsletter on microprocessor design...
This thing sounds like it could *smoke* through Lucas-Lehmer FFT's...
*** Intrinsity Arrays 2GHz Adaptive Matrix ***
EPF 2002 Presentation Introduces FastMath
By Max Baron {5/13/02-01}
First presented at EPF 2002, Intrinsity's FastMath, a new
real-time adaptive signal-processing applications
processor, implemented in 0.13-micron technology, is
expected to run at 2GHz. FastMath performs adaptive signal
processing via software control and is different from
adaptive computing machines that reconfigure hardware to
obtain workload-optimized performance. FastMath's
architecture provides, on a single chip, a high-performance
digital-signal-processing matrix connected to an L1 I&D-
cached MIPS32-compliant core as a tightly coupled
coprocessor. The coprocessor is implemented by 16 computing
elements, arranged in a 4x4 matrix and capable of
broadcasting values to all the elements in its row and
column. Each element can use operands from its own register
set or from a recent broadcast.
Claimed to deliver up to six times the performance of
today's fastest DSP in executing math-intensive operations,
Intrinsity's chip will target sockets in wireless
infrastructure and high-performance image processing for
medical, radar, and high-end printer-copier systems.
A Taiwan foundry, unnamed at the time of this writing but
leaving just two choices-United Microelectronics
Corporation or Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing
Corporation-will fabricate the processor. (The full version
of this article is available online to Microprocessor
Report subscribers at
http://www.mdronline.com/mpr/h/2002/0513/161901.html
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