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Some Parallel DSP Hardware

• Integrated Computing Engines, Inc.
  • DRE box has 64 SHARC processors in a SIMD/MIMD mesh, peak of 7.7 GFLOPS for ~$120K
  • ICEblast has 8 to 16 SHARC processors, "starts at < $15K"
  • Company is at
    http://www.iced.com/
• LOTS of multiple-TMS320 boards...
  • TI's TMS320 DSP gets a MFLOP/MHz, has two busses (making shared memory easier), and has built-in DMA-controlled high-speed serial links
  • A good overview of TMS320 parallel processing is
    http://www.ti.com/sc/docs/dsps/appinfo/c40pp/2.html