TileraMulticore

TILE64 as replacement for DSP and FPGA
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/20/tilera_tile64_chip/ Tilera looks to go after the FPGAs and DSPs used today in embedded devices, claiming performance, performance per watt and programming edges over rivals. For example, Tilera expects its chip to appear in security appliances that want to handle more-detailed analysis on packets, routers, surveillance DVRs (digital video recorders), video conferencing systems and boxes for encoding high definition video.

Tilera Multicore
Tilera multicore design replaces FPGA and DSP cores. * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILE64 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilera * http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/cpu/MIT-startup-raises-multicore-bar-with-new-64-core-CPU.ars * http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/20/1830221 * http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS4811855366.html * http://www.tilera.com/ Used for LTE, Wimax baseband programming * http://www.jumpgen.com/product/t6m100_amc_tilera_64_core_tile64_processor_card/ * http://www.tilera.com/solutions/digital_baseband.php

Register article
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/23/tilera_cpu_upgrade/page2.html That's another way of saying performance is nearly double, and on real workloads, it's somewhere between a factor of 1.5 to 2.5 better than the first Tile64 chips. Significantly for Tilera's marketing efforts, the new TilePro64 running at 866 MHz has 35 times the performance per watt of a 3 GHz quad-core Xeon processor from Intel and 15 times the performance of Texas Instruments' DaVinci DSPs.

The current architecture for base stations fall short of delivering the performance, the low latency and the flexibility customers need. To meet the requirements, wireless equipment providers design complex systems with FPGA, ASIC, DSP and processors with each component requiring special tools in a customized development environment. This leads to a long development cycle, sometimes years, before applications can be productized. Changes in standards also impact providers because such systems are inflexible-upgrades can be a slow and expensive process.

What providers seek is an uncomplicated, well-designed, architecture that yields good performance. Tilera's processors provide a low latency single solution that integrates many functions seamlessly in a single processor and uses C/C++ to program their applications with industry standard tools. The familiar tools enable customers to preserve their software investments, replace a number of disparate programming methodologies with one standard programming environment, and gain the flexibility they need to support evolving protocols and ever-increasing demands for service

NVIDIA
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/37729/135/ video on chip 

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