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What is an accelerator?
An accelerator is a specialised piece of hardware that speeds up a software-based task. Usually used for speeding up simulation.
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2012-05-24 Microsoft to incubate 10 Indian start-ups
Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure (India) programme will help 10 early-stage start-ups in cloud computing, internet and mobile, build businesses.
2012-05-21 NVIDIA Tesla K10 GPU targets defence industry
Nvidia's Tesla K10 GPU accelerator is aimed at high-performance computing markets such as seismic data processing in oil and gas exploration, and signal and image processing in the defence industry.
2012-02-06 Modular-exponentiation timing with MAXQ30 MCU
Learn about modular exponentiation, modular arithmetic accelerator, and the typical times to execute various sized exponentiations.
2012-01-23 NASA study takes look at Toyota tin whisker
The United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration delivered a report at the 2011 International Tin Whisker Symposium on Toyota accelerator pedal position sensors.
2012-01-11 Android accelerator s/w targets consumer apps
Android accelerator s/w targets consumer apps
2011-11-23 22nm co-processor features more than 50 cores
Intel unveils Knight's Corner compute accelerator that claims to have exceeded Nvidia's Tesla 2090 accelerator with its co-processor's one teraflops of double precision floating point performance.
2011-11-22 Fujitsu Semi enhances SoC design productivity
Fujitsu Semiconductor selects Magma's Titan ADX to optimise and port a variety of analogue IP circuits to new design specifications and processes.
2011-10-18 Graphics IP meets AMBA AXI4 specs
Xylon's logi3D Graphics Accelerator IP core is targeted at adding 2D and 3D graphics, including advanced GUI to the Xilinx ZynqTM-7000 Extensible Processor Platform.
2011-03-07 Cryptographic device touts EEPROM, accelerator
Cryptographic device touts EEPROM, accelerator
2011-01-14 32bit MCUs offer complex math engine
TI unveils the TMS320C2000 MCU platform featuring more than 15 C2000 32bit Piccolo MCUs that combine a floating-point core, complex math engine and control-oriented peripheral options.
2010-11-24 Base station DSP promises easy 3G to 4G transition
Used in Freescale's base station processor, the SC3850 DSP core offloads the complex 4G tasks into a dedicated accelerator and makes BDTIsimMark2000 score of 18,500.
2010-10-08 Accelerator card targets next-generation networks
Accelerator card targets next-generation networks
2010-09-14 ARM-based module optimised for Windows CE, Linux
Direct Insight rolls out an ARM-based system on module, the SwiftModule-DM that combines a TI Da Vinci DM3730 with a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 core, and an optional 720p HD DSP video accelerator.
2010-09-09 DTV SoC enables Internet TV services
STMicroelectronics presents the FLI7540, a TV System-on-Chip that offers an integrated 3D graphics accelerator enabling next-generation Internet TV services.
2010-09-01 720p HD video processors enable media-rich apps
TI debuts the DaVinci DM37x video processors that incorporate ARM and DSP core, IVA and 3D graphics processor (DM3730 only) integrated on a single SoC enabling media-rich applications.
2010-06-28 AMD accelerators boost computing to 2.64TFLOPS
AMD's 9370 GPU compute accelerators deliver up to 2.64TFLOPS of compute power for high-performance computing, cloud and enterprise-scale deployments.
2010-03-01 Addressing memory mapping issues in co-processing
By using accelerators, you can use fewer processors. This eliminates fancy interconnects and has fewer discrete bits of processing resource. The joke is if you want to make your chariot go faster do you want a thousand chickens or four strong horses.
2009-06-16 Rise-time accelerator IC for 2-wire bus apps
Rise-time accelerator IC for 2-wire bus apps
2009-01-06 Use ECDSA with MAXQ1103's modular arithmetic accelerator
Use ECDSA with MAXQ1103's modular arithmetic accelerator
2008-12-15 CompactPCI board designed for industrial apps
The 4HP single-slot CompactPCI board comes with all necessary industry-required interfaces.
2008-12-05 Hypercore processor offered as IP
Plurality said that its HyperCore 64-core processing engine is available for license in the form of IP.
2008-11-28 M2C accelerator for model-based design
M2C accelerator for model-based design
2008-09-11 MCUs tout control law accelerator
MCUs tout control law accelerator
2008-04-24 C-based coprocessor design: Datapath customization
The article elaborates on the use of a compiler for implementing a hybrid accelerator.
2008-08-28 Ensure successful VoWLAN: Know security in VoIP networks
See how using flexible hardware accelerators accommodate changes in standards and the unchecked evolution of network threats.
2008-08-13 Graphics accelerator aimed at CAD, DCC designers
Graphics accelerator aimed at CAD, DCC designers
2008-06-23 Freescale reveals 'first' multi-standard accelerator
Freescale reveals 'first' multi-standard accelerator
2008-05-05 Analysts split on MEMS accelerator outlook
Analysts split on MEMS accelerator outlook
2008-03-17 AMD graphics card improves visual experience
AMD has announced a graphics accelerator card which is designed to improve the visual experience for financial traders.
2008-02-19 PICO Extreme platform creates complex app engines
Synfora has claimed that its PICO Extreme platform automatically creates complex hardware sub-systems (application engines) from sequential untimed C algorithms.
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