An illustration of the SpursEngine SE1000 processor
The SpursEngine is a stream processor powered by four Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE),[2] also used in the Cell processor featured in Sony PlayStation 3. These processing elements are fed by on chip H.264 and MPEG-2codecs and controlled by an off die host CPU, connected by an on chip PCIe controller[2] (in contrast to the Cell processor which has an on chip CPU (the PPE) doing similar work). To enable smoother interaction between the host and the SpursEngine Toshiba also integrated a simple proprietary 32-bit control core. The SpursEngine employs dedicated XDR DRAM as its working memory.[2]
The SpursEngine is designed to work at much lower frequencies than the Cell and Toshiba has also optimized the circuit layout of the SPEs to reduce the size by 30%.[3] The resulting chip consumes 10-20 W of power.
The SpursEngine is accessible to the developer from a device driver developed for Windows and Linux systems. Software supporting the SpursEngine is limited and is primarily in the realm of video editing and encoding.[4]
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spursengine, microprocessor, from, toshiba, built, media, oriented, coprocessor, designed, video, processing, consumer, electronics, such, boxes, computers, processor, also, known, quad, core, processor, announced, september, 2007, illustration, se1000, proces. SpursEngine is a microprocessor from Toshiba built as a media oriented coprocessor designed for 3D and video processing in consumer electronics such as set top boxes and computers The SpursEngine processor is also known as the Quad Core HD processor Announced 20 September 2007 1 An illustration of the SpursEngine SE1000 processorThe SpursEngine is a stream processor powered by four Synergistic Processing Elements SPE 2 also used in the Cell processor featured in Sony PlayStation 3 These processing elements are fed by on chip H 264 and MPEG 2 codecs and controlled by an off die host CPU connected by an on chip PCIe controller 2 in contrast to the Cell processor which has an on chip CPU the PPE doing similar work To enable smoother interaction between the host and the SpursEngine Toshiba also integrated a simple proprietary 32 bit control core The SpursEngine employs dedicated XDR DRAM as its working memory 2 The SpursEngine is designed to work at much lower frequencies than the Cell and Toshiba has also optimized the circuit layout of the SPEs to reduce the size by 30 3 The resulting chip consumes 10 20 W of power The SpursEngine is accessible to the developer from a device driver developed for Windows and Linux systems Software supporting the SpursEngine is limited and is primarily in the realm of video editing and encoding 4 Contents 1 Technical specification 2 Commercialization 3 See also 4 References 5 External linksTechnical specification edit nbsp Logic schematic of the SpursEngine chip 2 The first generation of SpursEngine processors are specified as follows Built with a 65 nm bulk CMOS fabrication process with 7 layers of copper interconnect 2 9 98 mm 10 31 mm 102 89 mm large die 2 239 1 million transistors Logic 134 M SRAM 104 8 M 2 Thermal design power lt 20 W 2 Max frequency 1 5 GHz 2 Packaged in a 624 pin FC BGA Flip Chip Ball Grid Array 2 48 GFLOPS peak performance 12 GFLOPS per SPU 1 5 GHz 5 Commercialization editIn April 2008 Toshiba shipped samples of the SpursEngine SE1000 device a PCIe based reference board 5 The accelerator card connects to a 1x PCI Express bus and has 128 MB XDR DRAM with 12 8 GB s bandwidth Leadtek is producing the WinFast PxVC1100 and HPVC1100 internal and external PCIe accelerators based on the SE1000 platform 6 7 8 Thomson Canopus has announced the Firecoder Blu a PCIe accelerator based on the SE1000 platform 9 Toshiba included the SpursEngine processors in their Qosmio laptops models F50 G50 and G55 in the third quarter of 2008 See also editCell microprocessor References edit New Toshiba SpursEngine based on CELL I4U News 2007 09 20 Retrieved 2009 11 14 a b c d e f g h i j SpursEngine Architecture Overview amp Implementation PDF Toshiba 2008 10 09 Retrieved 2009 11 14 dead link How Far has Cell DNA been Passed On Interview with Toshiba SpursEngine Developer Tech On Nikkei Business Publications 2007 10 17 Retrieved 2009 11 14 Toshiba to make SpursEngine an open platform SDK to be released for free and multiple SpursEngine cards to run in parallel HD Processing Forum 2008 12 23 Archived from the original on 2009 02 02 Retrieved 2010 01 04 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a External link in code class cs1 code publisher code help a b Toshiba starts sample shipping of SpursEngine SE1000 high performance stream processor Toshiba 2008 04 08 Retrieved 2009 11 14 TechPowerUp com Custompc co uk Archived October 5 2008 at the Wayback Machine Akihabaranews com Archived September 6 2009 at the Wayback Machine Thomson canopus jp Archived December 11 2008 at the Wayback MachineExternal links editToshiba s Demos SpursEngine Equipped Qosmio Uses Cell Broadband Engine Technology Gizmodo com Cell Users Group SpursEngine Cell based GPU zaps laptop batteries admits Toshiba The Register Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title SpursEngine amp oldid 1123373486, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
