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News Release from: Tensilica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 April 2006
Diamond core set for Lucid chip design
Lucid Information Technology has licensed the Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core for a new scalable multi-GPU chip design project.
Lucid Information Technology of Kfar Netter, Israel, has licensed the Diamond Standard 212GP general-purpose processor core for a new scalable multi-GPU chip design project The Diamond 212GP is a flexible mid-range RISC controller that includes instruction and data caches, a 16bit multiply-accumulator, DSP functions and zero-overhead loop support
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Mar 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Diamond 212GP also includes a single-cycle latency local interface bus.
This processor core provides 40% better performance and 30% lower power than an ARM946E-S processor.
"We particularly liked the in-bound DMA capability of the Diamond Standard series", stated Moshe Steiner, CEO, Lucid.
"With this feature we are able to realise significantly higher computational and data throughput when compared with alternative architectures".
The Diamond 212GP provides designers with direct interface input ports and output wires for direct connections to other hardware blocks on the chip, providing a convenient and lower-power alternative to bus-based, memory-mapped I/O interfaces.
32 individually sampled input ports and 32 single-bit output wires provide device-driver programmers with a generous number of general-purpose I/O bits for hardware interface and system control.
These I/O ports provide direct control between the Diamond processor and related peripherals.
These wires and ports are similar in concept to GPIO pins on classic microcontrollers, and are unavailable on other popular processor cores.
"We welcome Lucid to the Tensilica licensee family as one of the first publicly announced licensees of the new Diamond Standard family", stated Steve Roddy, Tensilica's Vice President of Marketing.
"As a fast moving startup with an aggressive design target, Lucid's choice of the Diamond Standard series showcases our goal of making the Diamond Series processors the quick on-ramp to Tensilica's architecture".
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