multiple issues refimprove March 2008 cleanup January 2012 In computer architecture , a processorregister is a small amount of Computer storage storage available as part of a CPU or other digital processor ... are normally measured by the number of bits they can hold, for example, an 8 bit register or a 32 bit register . A processor often contains several kinds of registers, that can be classified accordingly ... state they usually include the program counter aka instruction pointer and status register aka processor ... Neumann . Clear Register usage The number of registers available on a processor and the operations ... held in registers improves performance. This is what makes fast registers and caches meaningful. Processor ... have duplicates of these architectural registers in order to improve performance via register renaming ... Allocating frequently used variables to registers can be critical to a program s performance. This register ... than which? and low end CPUs, a special data register, known as the accumulator computing accumulator , is used implicitly for many operations. memory address register Address registers hold memory ... cases used as an index register whose value is added as an offset from some address others allow registers ... such as zero, one, or pi . Vector registers hold data for vector processor vector processing done ... register store the instruction currently being executed. In some architectures, model specific registers also called machine specific registers store data and settings related to the processor itself. Because their meanings are attached to the design of a specific processor, they cannot be expected to remain standard between processor generations. Control and status registers It has three types ... registers Memory buffer register Memory data register Memory address register Memory Type Range Registers MTRR Hardware register s are similar, but occur outside CPUs. Some examples class wikitable align ... pointer ESP is counted as an integer register on x86 compatible processors, even though there are a limited ... more details
Wiktionarypar processorProcessor or Processing unit may refer to Computing Central processing unit CPU , an electronic circuit which executes computer programs, containing a processing unit and a control unit Processing unit, in Von Neumann computer architecture, contains an arithmetic logic unit ALU and processor registers Microprocessor , a CPU on one silicon chip as part of a microcomputer Graphics processing unit GPU VPU , a dedicated graphics rendering device for a personal computer or game console Physics processing unit PPU , a dedicated microprocessor designed to handle the calculations of physics Digital signal processor , a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing Network processor , a microprocessor specifically targeted at the networking application domain Front end processor , a helper processor for communication between a host computer and other devices Coprocessor Floating point unit Data processing disambiguation Data processor , a system that translates or converts between different data formats Word processor , a computer application used for the production of printable material Audio processor , used in studios and radio stations Other Food processor , a machine for preparing food See also Process disambiguation disambig ar de Prozessor el es Procesador ko he no Prosessor sk Z kladn jednotka uk zh ... more details
register s each thread s architectural state . A barrel processor can guarantee that each thread will execute ...A barrel processor is a Central processing unit CPU that switches between Thread computer science threads of execution on every Instruction cycle cycle . This CPU design technique is also known as interleaved or fine grained temporal multithreading . As opposed to simultaneous multithreading in modern superscalar architectures, it generally does not allow execution of multiple instructions in one cycle. For example, the peripheral processing system of the CDC 6000 series computers and its successors executed one Instruction computer science instruction or a portion of an instruction from each of 10 different virtual processors called peripheral processors before returning to the first processor ... Set See page 2 44 for an illustration of the rotating barrel . ref . Also, the IP3023 processor ... thread. The Cray XMT also uses a barrel processor Threadstorm in its architecture. Like preemptive .... A technique called C slowing can take a normal single tasking processor design and automatically generate a corresponding barrel processor design. An n way barrel processor generated this way acts much like n separate multiprocessing copies of the original single tasking processor, each one running ... processor spends a lot of time idle, not doing anything useful whenever a cache miss or pipeline ... way barrel processor with n deep Instruction pipeline pipeline s is much simpler than designing a single tasking processor because a barrel processor never has a pipeline stall and doesn t need feed forward circuits. For real time computing real time applications, a barrel processor can guarantee ... Soft peripherals Embedded.com article examines Ubicom s IP3023 processor http www.cs.clemson.edu mark g60.ps An Evaluation of the Design of the Gamma 60 DEFAULTSORT Barrel Processor Category Central ... processor ... more details
purpose Processorregister registers . Contains bus interface and system control functions, in addition to the processor. Implemented with 8KB Direct mapped direct mapped instruction and data cache ... http groups.inf.ed.ac.uk pasta hw asic.html ASIC flow . 130nm implementation of EnCore processor ... silicon implementation of an extended EnCore processor is a test chip codenamed Castle, fabricated ... Edinburgh Castle is built. The Castle chip contains an extended version of the EnCore processor, together ... Processor Category Microprocessors ... more details
Out of date date March 2012 unreferenced date January 2010 The XAP processor is a RISC central processing unit processor architecture developed by Cambridge Consultants since 1994. XAP processors are a family of 16 bit and 32 bit cores, all of which are intended for use in an application specific integrated circuit or ASIC chip design. XAP processors were designed for use in mixed signal integrated circuits for sensor or wireless applications including Bluetooth , ZigBee , GPS , RFID or Near Field Communication chips. Typically these integrated circuits are used in low cost, high volume products ... hearing aids. History XAP1 The first XAP processor was XAP1, designed in 1994 and used for a number ..., Harvard architecture , 16 bit processor with a 16 bit data bus and an 18 bit instruction set instruction ... bit address bus for data. XAP2 was a 12,000 gate processor with support for interrupts and a software ... requirement for a 32 bit processor. The project demanded a low cost and low energy ASIC implementation ... requirements saw a new 16 bit processor, the XAP4, designed to supersede the XAP2 taking into account ..., 12,000 gate, Von Neumann architecture Von Neumann bus , 16 bit processor core capable of addressing ... real world data captured by an Analog to digital converter ADC or similar sources. The processor ... bit processor. XAP4 also offers a migration path from 8 bit processors, such as Intel 8051 8051 , in applications ... of a 32 bit processor. XAP5 Development of an extended version of this architecture commenced in 2006 and resulted in the XAP5, which was announced in July 2008. XAP5 is a 16 bit processor with a 24 ... processor hardware size the XAP5 core uses 18,000 gates , and it fits designs that are clocked ... code from privileged operating system and interrupt handler code. The XAP processor hardware manages ... are designed using the Verilog hardware description language and provided as register transfer level ... XAP information from Cambridge Consultants RISC based processor architectures Category Embedded microprocessors ... more details
Tukwila is the code name for the generation of Intel s Itanium processor family following Itanium 2 and Montecito processor Montecito . It was released on 8 February 2010 as the Itanium 9300 Series. While its features have not been publicly disclosed in detail, it utilizes both multiple processor core s Multi core computing multi core and Simultaneous multithreading SMT techniques. The engineers said to be working on this project are from the DEC Alpha Alpha project, specifically those who worked on the Alpha 21464 EV8 , which was focused on SMT. Named for the city of Tukwila, Washington , ref cite web url http news.cnet.com Intel changes code name of future Itanium 2100 1006 3 5129242.html title Intel changes code name of future Itanium author Michael Kanellos date December 18, 2003 ref Tukwila was previously code named Tanglewood . However the name coincides with the Tanglewood Tanglewood music festival , and Intel renamed the project in late 2003 . The processor has two to four cores per die and up to 24 MB L3 of on die cache. They are the first batch of processors to contain more than 2 billion transistors on a single die., ref cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi technology 7223145.stm title Chips pass two billion milestone author BBC News date February 4, 2008 ref ref cite web url http www.computerworld.com action article.do?command viewArticleBasic&articleId 9060900&intsrc hm list title Intel squeezes 2 billion transistors onto new Itanium chip accessdate 2008 02 05 author ... Core date 5 May 2006 ref Whitefield, the first Xeon processor to feature QuickPath, suffered significant ... csi low title Intel s CSI to outperform AMD s Hypertransport date 12 December 2005 publisher The Register ref Currently, the first Xeon MP processor to feature QuickPath is Xeon Beckton Beckton . ref ... ibm power7 ncsa IBM s eight core Power7 chip to clock in at 4.0GHz . The Register . ref More recently ... Tukwila Processor Category Intel microprocessors Category Article Feedback 5 compu hardware stub ... more details
September 2009, The Register reported that the Rock processor was left out of the SPARC processor ...Infobox CPU name UltraSPARC Rock processor image Ultrasparc rock micrograph.jpg image size 250px produced ... computer architecture multithreading , Multi core processor multicore , SPARC microprocessor ... multiprocessing SMP scalability than the Niagara family. The Rock processor targeted traditional high ... servers. Processor core File Ultrasparc rock top level block diagram.jpg thumb 200px Top ... processor implements the 64 bit SPARC V9 instruction set and the Visual Instruction Set VIS ... ref Each Rock processor has 16 cores, with each core capable of running two threads simultaneously, yielding ... of memory systems. The Rock processor uses a 65 nm manufacturing process for a design frequency ... ref The maximum power consumption of the Rock processor chip is approximately 250 W. ref cite web url http www.opensparc.net pubs preszo 08 RockHotChips.pdf title Rock A SPARC CMT Processor date ... Thread Plus 32 Scout Thread CMT SPARC R Processor date 2008 02 13 publisher Sun Microsystems format PDF ref Unconventional features In 2005, Sun publicly disclosed a feature in the Rock processor called ... technologies were expected to be included in the Rock processor. In August 2007, Sun confirmed that Rock would be the first production processor to support transactional memory . ref cite web url ... were introduced tt chkpt tt , tt commit tt with one new status register tt cps tt . The instruction ... have benefited from transactional memory support of the Rock processor. ref name transact08 dice ... Memory date 2008 04 25 publisher Sun Microsystems ref Server platforms The Rock processor was intended ... title Sun slots transactional memory into Rock publisher The Register ref However, as a result of entirely ... waves goodbye to 2008 ship date Shaky silicon eyes 2009 date 2007 12 27 publisher The Register ref ... os community on flag days pages 2008092603 title Heads up Solaris support for Rock processor publisher ... more details
with 16 32 bit processorregister registers , and had data types of 32 and 64 bit integers and 32 ...Tao Virtual Processor VP is a virtual machine from Tao Group . The first version, VP1, was the basis ... Processor s machine code , is intended to be able to represent the constructs required when ... of vital ideas. Hardware Independence Taos applications run on different processor architecture s without ... way beyond that possible from increasing the power of a single processor? The answer is that, whilst ... Taos than it is to write them for single processor operating systems, as applications code will run on any processor supported by Taos. Taos uses a process and communications model of parallelism. Each process can execute on a separate processor, and talk by sending messages to each other. The processes ... processor, can be re compiled to run on a different processor without the need to re write ... for every processor type introduced. This can consume a great deal of effort to achieve. Taos takes a different approach. By targeting all compiled code at the Taos Virtual Processor, porting ... in. In effect the portability has been taken from the language level to the processor level. Furthermore ..., below. Taos can be ported with little effort to any processor or communications hardware. The only part of Taos that needs to be re coded to support a new physical processor, is the Translator. The Translator is the program which converts VP code into the native code for the processor. Once the translator is written, all applications written for any processor, in any language which compiles to VP, will become instantly executable on the new processor type. So, to reiterate programs written ... t even have to recompile. Virtual Processor The first Taos virtual processor was an imaginary 32bit .... All programs are compiled or assembled into virtual processor code and are kept in this form on disk. The VP code is translated into the native code of the processor on which it is to run ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 A mobile processor is a Central processing unit CPU designed to save Electric power power . It is found in mobile computer s and cellphone s. A CPU chip designed for portable computers, it is typically housed in a smaller chip package, but more importantly, in order to run cooler, it uses lower voltages than its desktop computer desktop counterpart and has more sleep mode capability. A mobile processor can be throttled down to different power levels and or sections of the chip can be turned off entirely when not in use. Further, the clock frequency may be stepped down under low processor loads. This stepping down conserves power and prolongs battery life . See also Notebook processor Embedded processor DEFAULTSORT Mobile Processor Category Mobile computers Category Microprocessors Microcompu stub ko ... more details
A document processor is a document preparation system that superficially resembles a word processor . However, the emphasis in a document processor is on the arrangement of the document s components, ref What is a http www.lyx.org WhatIsLyX document processor ? ref not the formatting of the characters that compose it. The available tools are not just typical document elements paragraphs, lists, headers the primary attraction of a document processor is the ability to program documents with powerful conditional automatic formatting rules to create structured document s, which allow large numbers of similar elements to be generated and reformatted for different media with little human effort. Examples of document processors include programs like Parametric Technology Corporation PTC Arbortext , Adobe Systems Adobe FrameMaker , LyX , BroadVision QuickSilver formerly Interleaf , and Syntext Serna . Examples of markup language s used for non graphical document processing include SGML XML , LaTeX and troff . See also Desktop publishing References references DEFAULTSORT Document Processor Category Technical communication tools ... more details
Scalar processors represent the simplest class of computer processor s. A scalar processor processes one datum at a time typical data items being integer computer science integer s or floating point number s . ref name ram Advanced Microprocessors and Interfacing by Badri Ram 2000 ISBN 0070434484 page 11 ref , a scalar processor is classified as a SISD processor Single Instructions, Single Data . In a vector processor , by contrast, a single instruction operates simultaneously on multiple data items. called SIMD in Flynn s taxonomy The difference is analogous to the difference between scalar mathematics scalar and Vector geometric vector arithmetic. A superscalar processor, on the other hand, executes more than one instruction during a clock cycle by simultaneously dispatching multiple instructions to redundant functional units on the processor. Each functional unit is not a separate CPU core but an execution resource within a single CPU such as an arithmetic logic unit, a bit shifter, or a multiplier. ref name ram See also Instruction pipeline Parallel computing Superscalar References Reflist Compu hardware stub DEFAULTSORT Scalar Processor Category Central processing unit cs Skal rn procesor de Skalarprozessor es Procesador escalar fr Processeur scalaire ko id Prosesor skalar mk ja pl Procesor skalarny ru uk zh ... more details
refimprove date January 2012 A vector processor , or array processor , is a central processing unit CPU that implements an instruction set containing Instruction computer science instructions that operate on Array data structure one dimensional array s of data called vectors . This is in contrast to a scalar processor , whose instructions operate on single data items. Although Intel processors and their clones were designed initially as scalar, new models contain an increasing number of specialized vector instructions such as those supplied by the Advanced Vector Extensions set. Vector processors ... and Sony collaborated to create the Cell microprocessor Cell processor , consisting of one scalar processor and eight vector processors, which found use in the Sony PlayStation 3 among other applications ... CPU module.jpg thumb Cray J90 processor module with four scalar vector processors Other examples ... Corporation NEC introduced register based vector machines similar to the Cray 1, typically being slightly ... coupling several scalar processors to act as a vector processor. Vector processing techniques ... end loop But to a vector processor, this task looks considerably different read instruction and decode ... is also smaller, which can lead to more efficient memory use. But more than that, a vector processor ... n t loop n t movups xmm0, ebx ecx loads 4 floats in first register xmm0 n t movups xmm1, eax ecx loads 4 floats in second register xmm1 n t mulps xmm0,xmm1 multiplies both vector registers n t movups ...,ecx n t rest n t movss xmm0, ebx edx load 1 float in first register xmm0 n t movss xmm1, eax edx load 1 float in second register xmm1 n t mulss xmm0,xmm1 multiplies both scalar parts of registers n ... native implementation for each processor type. Users simply program using these abstractions and an intelligent ... technologies DEFAULTSORT Vector Processor Category Parallel computing Category Central processing unit ... fr Processeur vectoriel ko it Processore vettoriale nl Array processor ja ... more details
A Java processor is the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine JVM in hardware. In other words the Java bytecode bytecodes that make up the instruction set of the abstract machine become the instruction set of a concrete machine. Implementations Up to now only a few Java processors are available picoJava was the first attempt by Sun Microsystems to build a Java processor http www.ajile.com index.php?option com content&view article&id 2&Itemid 6 aJ102 and http www.ajile.com index.php?option com content&view article&id 3&Itemid 7 aJ200 from http www.ajile.com aJile Systems, Inc. . Available on boards from http jstamp.systronix.com Systronix http www.imsystech.com Cjip from Imsys Technologies. Available on boards and with wireless radios from http www.avidwireless.com site AVIDdirector.htm AVIDwireless ref Imsys hedges bets on Java microcode Writable control stores rewritable microcode chip has instruction sets for Java, Forth, C C by Tom R. Halfhill http www.imsystech.com press room press archive press micro p report.pdf ref http ipr.ira.uka.de komodo komodoEng.html Komodo is a multithreaded Java microcontroller for research on real time scheduling http www.inf.ufrgs.br en FemtoJava is a research project to build an application specific Java processor ARM9E ARM926EJ S is an ARM processor able to run Java bytecode, this technology being named Jazelle Java Optimized Processor ref cite doi 10.1016 j.sysarc.2007.06.001 ref for FPGA s. A PhD thesis is http www.jopdesign.com thesis index.jsp available http shap.inf.tu dresden.de SHAP bytecode processor from the TU Dresden http www.ee.cityu.edu.hk hisc architecture.html jHISC ref cite doi 10.1016 j.micpro.2005.12.007 ref provides hardware support for object oriented functions http www.vivaja.com ObjectCore is a multicore Java processor designed by http www.vivaja.com Vivaja Technologies . http www.templecomputing.com Java Offload Engine JOE is a high performance Java co processor from http www.templecomputing.com Temple Computing ... more details
In computer architecture , dual processor can refer to two different types of multiprocessing A computer with two central processing unit s A dual core central processing unit two processors combined into a single integrated circuit or package. disambig ca Processament dual ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Context date October 2009 A processor array is like a storage array but contains and manages Process computing processing elements instead of storage elements. The processor array should have the following characteristics Should support forty or more processing elements blades per chassis The chassis should support the use of commodity motherboard s The chassis should only backplane power and management capabilities to extend the life of the chassis and reduce chassis change costs Will provide end to end redundant power Each processing element should support two or more redundant virtualized I O connections See also Computer cluster Distributed computing Massively parallel processor array Blade server Category Concurrent computing Category Fault tolerant computer systems tech stub ... more details
Processor affinity or CPU Pinning . CPU pinning enables mapping and unmapping entire virtual machines or a specific virtual CPU vCPU , to a physical CPU or a range of CPUs.It is a modification of the native central queue scheduling algorithm in a symmetric multiprocessing operating system. Each task be it Process computing process or Thread computing thread in the queue has a tag indicating its preferred kin central processing unit processor . At allocation time, each task is allocated to its kin processor in preference to others. Processor affinity takes advantage of the fact that some remnants of a process may remain in one processor s state in particular, in its CPU cache cache from the last time the process ran. Scheduling it to run on the same processor the next time could result in the process s running more efficiently by reducing performance degrading situations such as cache misses ... algorithm implementations vary in adherence to processor affinity. Under certain circumstances some implementations will allow a task to change to another processor if this is deemed to be most efficient. This may be the case if two processor intensive tasks A and B have affinity to one processor while another processor lies unused. Many algorithms would shift task B to the second processor in order to maximize processor use. Task B would then acquire affinity with the second processor while task A would continue to have affinity with the original processor. Processor affinity can effectively ... problem. ref http www.tmurgent.com WhitePapers ProcessorAffinity.pdf White Paper Processor Affinity From http www.tmurgent.com tmurgent.com . Accessed 2007 07 06. ref Further, processor affinity becomes ... core processor dual core hyper threading hyper threaded Central processing unit CPUs presents a challenge ... resources are also shared, processor affinity alone cannot be used as the basis for CPU dispatching ... Processor Affinity Category Scheduling algorithms ja pl Koligacja procesor w ... more details
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A notebook processor is a Central processing unit CPU optimized for Laptop notebook computer s. One of the main characteristics differentiating notebook processors from other CPUs is Low power electronics low power power consumption consumption . The notebook processor is becoming an increasingly important market segment in the semiconductor industry . Notebook computers are an increasingly popular format of the broader category of Mobile computing mobile computer s. The objective of a notebook computer is to provide the performance and functionality of a desktop computer in a portable computer portable size and weight. AMD Turion 64 , Turion 64 X2 Transmeta Transmeta Crusoe Crusoe and Efficeon Intel Pentium M , Intel Core Core Duo , Core 2 Duo and the budget Celeron M Freescale Semiconductor makes the PowerPC processors that were used in the pre Intel Apple Computer notebooks. Cell phones and PDAs require microcontroller s that use even less power than notebook processors. While it is possible to use desktop processors in laptops, this practice is generally not recommended, as desktop processors heat faster than notebook processors and drain batteries faster. Currently, the fastest notebook processor is the Intel core List of Intel Core i7 microprocessors i7 2640M , a 2.8 GHz dual core processor. ref http ark.intel.com products 53464 Intel Core i7 2640M Processor ref The new core i7 line has the Intel Turbo Boost mode that can boost its clockspeed over the factory default. The first quad core notebook processor code named Penryn QC was released by Intel in Q3 2008. ref http www.laptoplogic.com news detail.php?id 3284 Dead link date April 2012 ref gallery Image KL Intel Pentium Mobile.jpg Intel Mobile Pentium MMX 300 MHz. Image KL Fujitsu Mobile Pentium Plastic Bottom.jpg Rare Fujitsu Pentium 100 MHz for Notebooks. Image KL Fujitsu Pentium Mobile Ceramic.jpg ... Personal computing References references DEFAULTSORT Notebook Processor Category Microprocessors ... more details
A signal processor is an device which processor processes Signal electronics signal s containing information . Also analog signal s with analog electronics is used, the name means mostly digital electronics Electronic circuit circuit s that processes digital signal s. Most modern signal processors are either dedicated microprocessor integrated circuit s or general purpose programmable microprocessors. A DSP digital signal processor is an electronic device which serves the purpose of signal processing . It can be used for Digital signal digital to analog conversions and vice versa. Digital audio In the realm of digital audio , a signal processor is a device that modifies an audio signal, either analog or digital. It can be a piece of electronic hardware or computer software . A basic example of a signal processor is a high pass filter, which removes low frequencies from a signal. Traditionally signal processors were electronic circuits that affected analog signals. In digital audio, signal processors can be software that alter digitized audio information. The term Digital Signal Processing DSP usually refers to the processors that are involved in calculating the effect a digital signal processor will have on an audio data stream. For example, HD Accel cards by Digidesign contain processors that calculate the changes to a digital audio signal. Types of Signal Processors Equalization Audio filter Filters Reverberation Delay audio effect Delay Dynamic processing Dynamic range compression compression , Expansion audio expansion , limiting , Noise gate noise gating Noise reduction References Audio in Media, Stanley R. Allen, Thomson Wadsworth, 7th Edition, 2005. ISBN 0 534 63046 4 Category Signal processing Compu hardware stub ... more details
refimprove date April 2011 A baseband processor also known as baseband radio processor , BP , or BBP is a device a chip or part of a chip in a network interface that manages all the radio functions all functions that require an antenna . This may not include wi fi and or bluetooth . It typically uses its own RAM and firmware. The rationale of separating the baseband processor from the main processor known as the AP or Application Processor is threefold radio performance radio control functions signal modulation, encoding, radio frequency shifting, etc. are highly timing dependant, and require a realtime OS legal some authorities e.g. the U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC require that the entire software stack running on a device which communicates with the cellular network must be certified. Separating the BP into a different component allows reusing them without having to certify the full AP. radio reliability Separating the BP into a different component ensures proper radio operation while allowing application and OS changes. Baseband processors typically run a Real Time Operating System RTOS written in firmware Nucleus RTOS iPhone 3G 3GS iPad ENEA AB ENEA s Operating System Embedded OSE Versatile Real Time Executive VRTX ThreadX iPhone 4 Significant baseband manufacturers include Broadcom Icera Infineon Qualcomm ST Ericsson Further reading http wiki.openezx.org BP Baseband Processor entry at openezx.org Babin, Steve. http books.google.com books?id thd5DSWn F4C&pg PA80 Developing software for Symbian OS A beginner s guide to creating Symbian OS v9 smartphone applications in C . Symbian Press, 2007, p. 80. Category Antennas radio Category Radio electronics ... more details
Merge to computational RAM date July 2011 A Processor in memory PIM refers to a CPU computer processor CPU tightly coupled to computer memory memory , generally on the same Integrated circuit silicon chip . The chief goal of merging the processing and memory components in this way is to reduce memory latency and increase Bandwidth computing bandwidth . Alternatively reducing the distance that data needs to be moved reduces the power requirements of a system. Much of the complexity and hence power consumption in current processors stems from strategies to deal with avoiding memory stalls. Examples In the 1980s, a tiny CPU that executed FORTH was fabricated into a DRAM chip to improve PUSH and POP. FORTH is a Stack oriented programming language and this improved its efficiency. The Transputer also had large on chip memory given that it was made in the early 1980s making it essentially a Processor in memory. Notable PIM projects include the University of California, Berkeley http iram.cs.berkeley.edu IRAM project or the University of Notre Dame http www.nd.edu pim PIM effort. External links http www.classiccmp.org transputer Transputer Category Computer architecture comp sci stub ... more details
other uses of Alchemy The Alchemy microprocessor is a low power processor family that uses MIPS architecture . The Alchemy family was used by AMD, Raza Microelectronics Inc Raza Microelectronics currently NetLogic Microsystems and Sun Microsystems in its embedded products such as Network processors. Products include AMD Alchemy Au1550 Processor Network processor Sun Ray Sun Ray 2 family of thin client s. Several Cowon Portable media player PMP devices. Dell DRAC5 remote administration cards. AirPort Extreme Base Station External links http www.netlogicmicro.com Products Alchemy index.asp Official website at NetLogic Microsystems http www.linux mips.org wiki Alchemy Alchemy page at linux mips.org AMD processors DEFAULTSORT Alchemy Category MIPS implementations Category Advanced Micro Devices microprocessors compu hardware stub de Alchemy eo Alchemy fr Alchemy processeur ko pl Alchemy procesor ru Alchemy uk Alchemy zh yue Alchemy zh Alchemy ... more details
COI check date October 2010 context date January 2011 Tile processors are Multi core processor multicore or manycore chips that contain one dimensional, or more commonly, two dimensional arrays of identical tiles. Each tile comprises a compute unit or a processing engine or CPU , caches and a switch. Tiles can be viewed as adding a switch to each core, where a core comprises a compute unit and caches. In a typical Tile Processor configuration, the switches in each of the tiles are connected to each other using one or more mesh network s. ref cite news title On Chip Interconnection Architecture of the Tile Processor url http www.computer.org portal web csdl doi 10.1109 MM.2007.89 publisher IEEE Micro first David last Wentzlaff date September 15, 2007 ref The Tilera TILE Pro 64, for example, contains 64 tiles. Each of the tiles comprises a CPU, L1 and L2 caches, and switches for several mesh networks. References references Category Central processing unit ... more details
There are multiple articles regarding stream processor Stream processing a technique used to accelerate the processing of many types of video and image computations. Stream Processors, Inc a semiconductor company that has commercialized stream processing for DSP applications. Event Stream Processing is a set of technologies designed to assist the construction of event driven information systems. disambig ... more details
Refimprove date March 2008 A network processor is an integrated circuit which has a feature set specifically targeted at the Computer networking networking application domain. Network processors are typically software programmable devices and would have generic characteristics similar to general purpose Central Processing Unit central processing unit s that are commonly used in many different types of equipment and products. History of development In modern telecommunications network s, information voice, video, data is now transferred as Packet information technology packet data termed packet switching rather than previously in older telecommunications networks as analog signal s such as in the public switched telephone network PSTN or analog TV Radio networks. The processing of these packets has resulted in the creation of integrated circuit s IC that are optimised to deal with this form of packet data. Network Processors have specific features or architectures that are provided to enhance ... In the generic role as a packet processor, a number of optimised features or functions are typically present in a network processor, these include Pattern matching the ability to find specific patterns ... of the pipeline consisting of an entire processor performing one of the functions listed above. Parallel ... and used to be executed by a variety of co processors, becomes in integral part of the network processor ... Using the generic function of the network processor, a software program implements an application that the network processor executes, resulting in the piece of physical equipment performing a task ... by the processor. TCP Offload Engine TCP offload processing References Reflist See also Content processor Multi core computing Multi core Processor Knowledge based processor Knowledge based processor Active networking Computer engineering Internet List of defunct Network Processor companies ... div Category Networking hardware es NPU fr Network processor it Network processor zh ... more details
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