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 ...
EDN

Vector processing: Finally, high-performance software-defined radio

Since its proposal back in 1991 by Joe Mitola in a landmark paper on thesubject, the notion of Software Defined Radio (SDR) has captured theimagination of wireless design engineers in both government ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Next Platform

A Deep Dive Into NEC’s Aurora Vector Engine

We caught wind of the “Aurora” Vector Engine vector processor and the “Tsubasa” system from NEC that makes use of it ahead of the SC17 supercomputer conference, and revealed everything we could find ...
Design-Reuse

Altera's Nios II Processor Supported by Vector Informatik's OSEK/VDX-Compliant RTOS for Automotive Applications

FPGA-Based Embedded Processor Supports Europe’s Leading RTOS Standard San Jose, Calif., April 3, 2007—Altera Corporation’s (NASDAQ: ALTR) Nios® II embedded processor is now supported by Vector ...
EDN

Putting a polyphase filter in processor array

While most articles in this section discuss the reprogramming of graphics processors, other large arrays of processing elements are available as standard-product ICs for other applications. In some ...