Re: More multi-core

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Barry,

Is there an occam compiler for this device?

Larry Dickson

> Ian,
>
> Why wait - do it yourself, we just did!
>
> In order to provide an option customers asked for we implemented a small
> processor and then dropped 16 of them onto an FPGA - actually on the side
> of an FPGA already pretty full with our main product. Peak performance of
> each processor is ~750MOPS so the total is about the same as claimed by a
> top-of-the-line Pentium (but at far lower power - the whole box with its
> display and fast interfaces consumes ~25W). Admittedly the application is
> naturally fairly parallel and interaction between processors is limited
> (the processors work in pairs).
>
> Anyone wanting to do some research should not find it too difficult to
> implement interesting multi-core on reasonably priced FPGA's.
>
>        Barry.
>
> Dr Barry M. Cook, BSc, PhD, CEng, MBCS, CITP, MIEEE
> CTO,
> 4Links Limited,
> Bletchley Park,
> MK3 6ZP,
> UK.
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Ian East
>   To: Barry Cook
>   Cc: Occam Family
>   Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 5:14 PM
>   Subject: Re: More multi-core
>
>
>   Looks like I better dust off the old Parallel Programming text what I
> rote back in the last century!
>
>
>   At Brookes/Computing we now teach no concurrent programming at all.  If
> it resumes, it'll probably be monitors using Java ? which only 1 in 20
> or so will master to any useful degree.  But I'll still be expected to
> return 70% pass-rate, of course.
>
>
>   It will start to get interesting once the hardware, on a general-purpose
> machine, passes 8 or so cores.  Any guesses as to performance-scaling
> achieved in practice?  Could be lucrative this time around.
>
>
>   Ian
>
>
>   On 4 Jul 2007, at 09:35, Barry Cook wrote:
>
>
>     News of another manufacturer entering the multi-core arena - with yet
> another architecture.
>
>     Interestingly, the power consumption argument is getting more
> prominent [Two cores consume less power than one core at twice the
> speed]. We heard it at WoTUG in Eindhoven (from Philips) and it is
> spreading.
>
>     http://www.embeddedtechjournal.com/articles_2007/20070626_freescale.htm
>
>         Barry.
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