Microprocessors are now used in a variety of devices, ranging from toys to aerospace industry. Most modern processors are based on the principle of sequential processing of information developed by von Neumann. This is the main drawback of their architecture.The potential for evolutionary development, proposed by von Neumann architecture model is almost exhausted. This is noted in the reports International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS), produced by an international group of experts.
The aim of the project - the development of qualitatively new processor architecture, which will not only overcome the crisis in the emerging computer industry, but for decades to determine the path of its further development.
The family of the post-von Neumann processor includes three types: multi-cellular, structural, and a programmable object-oriented processors.
The first step in implementing a new direction in the design of processor architectures has been the creation sinpyutera - a prototype multi-
cell processor.
Multi-cell processor - the first of a family of processors with a stored algorithm. It solves several problems in the industry that can not be made within the von Neumann model. Organization multikletochnogo processor provides a significant improvement in its consumer characteristics. In particular, multi-cell processor ensures the implementation of concurrency "natural" way, without solving the problem of parallelization, but it uses for traditional programming languages high-level programming.
Reducing the complexity and cost of designing and testing of processors is provided by the decentralization of architecture and enhance the language processor. Multi-cell processor operates with no instructions, and suggestions. That is, arbitrary length sequence of operations which each operation can be performed only as part of this sequence. These differences allow the processor to increase productivity growth by 2-4 times and reduce power consumption by 10-15 times by eliminating the unnecessary execution of commands. These results were obtained when testing sinpyutera.
Sinpyuter developed as a DSP-processor (a chip that performs the task of digital signal processing) and was tested for all the common tasks that implement such devices. That's why the company is preparing to enter the market of DSP-processors. The threshold of entry into this market and the payback period is significantly lower than in the segment of general-purpose processors. Market volume is constantly increasing due to the emergence of new fields of application of electronic devices. He co-exist several large and medium-sized companies and many smaller players. Notable participants in this segment - a few dozen.
Consumers of these products are companies developing custom and semicustom solutions and DSP-use CPU cores within their systems.
As products of the company "UralArhLab" plans to offer the market:
· License for the use of patented technology solutions for the construction of the processor architecture.
· License for the use of the processor core architecture.
· Design work on the creation of new processor architectures oriented programming languages used by the customer.
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