BittWare's Anemone - A New Approach to Floating Point DSP

Ah-ne-MO-nee
It’s a word that is quite often mis-pronounced.
It’s not Ane-No-Me. Or worse – An-En-ema. Definitely not that!

BittWare’s first generation Anemone chip, the Anemone104 (AN104) is a completely scalable multicore processor with 16 eCores that provide a total sustained performance of 19.2 GFLOPS while consuming only 1 Watt of core power.

Featuring the Epiphany architecture from Adapteva, the BittWare Anemone combines the best assets of both FPGA and floating point DSP technology, thereby offering a completely new approach to floating point digital signal processing. The FPGA handles all the memory, I/O interfacing, protocol processing, and special functions, in addition to any computational tasks it may perform. This leaves the Anemone free to perform the complex processing tasks that DSPs are ideal for.

The AN104 features an internal high-throughput mesh network, with separate data paths for on-chip and off-chip communications. Total on-chip, inter-core bandwidth is 76.8 GBytes/sec full duplex, with an additional 8 GBytes/sec of off-chip bandwidth.

The BittWare Anemone Evaluation Kit provides a cost-effective way to begin evaluating the Anemone co-processor for FPGAs, featuring an Anemone104 and Altera Stratix III FPGA based evaluation board - ready to use out of the box, with the Ubuntu Linux OS and Anemone development tools installed on an included laptop.

This is pretty new technology – if you would like more information give the Sarsen sales team a call on +44 1672 511166 or send us an email.

Things that have interested the Sarsen Team this week....

In no particular order -

Cake.
Fancy dress parties Something beginning with ‘F’ anyone?
Old money 12p = a shilling = 5p. Hmmm. 
Cockney Rhyming Slang

The XPedite7470 from Extreme Engineering (X-ES).

The XPedite7470 is a high-performance, low-power, 3U VPX-REDI, single board computer. It's based on the 2nd generation Intel® Core™i7 processor or 3rd generation Intel Core i7 processor and Intel QM67 chipset, and can be used in either the system slot or peripheral slot of a VPX backplane. Floating-point-intensive applications such as radar, image processing, and signals intelligence will benefit from the performance boost provided by the Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions (Intel® AVX) incorporated into the 2nd generation Intel Core™i7 processor. 

XPedite7470 from Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc (X-ES)

This board has caught the attention of many design engineers and developers, because it’s ideal for the high-bandwidth and processing-intensive demands of today's military and avionics applications. 

Please contact Sarsen Technology for full details of the air-cooled and conduction-cooled variants of the XPedite7470 available. 
T +44 1672 511166      E - info@sarsen.net

The Sarsen Team would also like to congratulate Dan at BittWare on his upcoming nuptials this weekend. Best wishes to Dan from all of us!