Building Broadband as Economic Stimulus
Looks into the recently passed stimulus bill and the provisions affecting broadband and wireless services.
Guest Editors' Introduction: Hot Chips Turns 20
The five papers in this special issue are extended versions of papers presented at the Hot Chips conference in August 1008.
Rock: A High-Performance Sparc CMT Processor
- Shailender Chaudhry,
- Robert Cypher,
- Magnus Ekman,
- Martin Karlsson,
- Anders Landin,
- Sherman Yip,
- Håkan Zeffer,
- Marc Tremblay
Rock, Sun's third-generation chip-multithreading processor, contains 16 high-performance cores, each of which can support two software threads. Rock uses a novel checkpoint-based architecture to support automatic hardware scouting under a load miss, ...
Godson-3: A Scalable Multicore RISC Processor with x86 Emulation
The Godson-3 microprocessor aims at high-throughput server applications, high-performance scientific computing, and high-end embedded applications. It offers a scalable network on chip, hardware support for x86 emulation, and a reconfigurable ...
Broadcom mediaDSP: A Platform for Building Programmable Multicore Video Processors
Broadcom's mediaDSP technology is a modular and scalable multiprocessor platform that provides the framework for building customized and programmable multicore processors for the video and image processing domain. The mediaDSP platform exploits task-...
A New 40-nm FPGA and ASIC Common Platform
Altera's Stratix IV FPGAs and Hardcopy IV ASICs provide a 40-nm common platform that offers several innovative architectural improvements, including adaptive body bias and flexible 10-Gbps transceivers. The resulting combination of high density, high ...
Voice Processors Based on the Human Hearing System
A voice processor is a dedicated audio signal-processing chip for mobile phones and personal computers that enables high-performance noise reduction and acoustic echo cancellation for highly noisy environments. The algorithms and hardware underlying ...
IEEE-USA Tells Congress that Patent Reform Is Essential to Economic Recovery
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No More Wishful Thinking
Two books are reviewed in this column: Perfect Software and Other Illusions about Testing (Weinberg, G.; 2008) and The Principles of Successful Freelancing (Burke, M.; 2008).