Polymorphic Computer:

Monarch Polymorphic Computer
processing power 64 GFlops
memory bandwidth 60 GBytes/sec
IO bandwidth 43 Gbytes/sec
power dissipation 11W to 21W

http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=975694&highlight=

“Typically, a chip is optimally designed either for front-end signal
processing or back-end control and data processing,”
“The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure
itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional
compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with
beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it’s fully programmable.”

Its not an FPGA, its not a processor, its not a DSP. Its a little bit of
all.
Sound like a nice gnuradio processor.

Greetings,
Martin

Martin D. wrote:

“Typically, a chip is optimally designed either for front-end signal processing or back-end control and data processing,”
“The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional
compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it’s fully programmable.”

…and it GENERATES more power than it CONSUMES!!!

:wink:

Frank

2007/3/24, Martin D. [email protected]:

http://investor.raytheon.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=84193&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=975694&highlight=

The URL contains “investor”, which makes me to think:

“Don’t belive the hype”
– Public Enemy

:slight_smile:

Trond D.