zenith-steven@CS.YALE.EDU (Steven Ericsson Zenith) (05/08/90)
In article <8987@hubcap.clemson.edu> swank@dip.eecs.umich.edu (Thomas E. Ragland) writes: >help resolve the following? The problem of interest is as follows, we would >like to develop a specialized high speed parallel computer system for signal >processing applications. [... stuff deleted about using the transputer] The transputer alone is unlikely to be a good choice for signal processing applications, esp. if you are looking for high performance. You shouldn't assume in this case that the parallelism in such a system is ideally applied to a signal processing problem. However, having said that, transputers make fine glue and combined with some specialised signal processor can serve the purpose. INMOS, in fact, produces several TRAMs which do exactly this. The VECTRAM (a high speed T800 plus a ?? [I forget the name .. ZORAN? Does that sound right?] signal processor) and I'm sure there must be a TRAM with the INMOS A1xx series of cascadable signal processors attached. Now, the person to speak to at INMOS on such matters is Hossein Yassie (I'm sure he won't mind my giving his name out and singing his praises here). He understands all the issues mentioned in the original posting and since he was the principle architect behind the A1xx series of signal processors and responsible for the VECTRAM, he's a better person than I to answer any detailed questions on this issue. He is currently running the INMOS IQ Systems business but maintains a high profile technical role. Sorry, email to INMOS Bristol,UK is not a viable means of communication from the USA, but you could try "isnet!bra!hossein@inmos.com". The land mail address is: INMOS Limited, 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, BRISTOL, UK. Blissfully I realise I now forget the phone number! :-) Steven. . . Steven Ericsson Zenith * email: zenith@cs.yale.edu Department of Computer Science | voice: (203) 432 1278 Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06520 USA. "All can know beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness" . Steven Ericsson Zenith * email: zenith@cs.yale.edu Department of Computer Science | voice: (203) 432 1278 Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven CT 06520 USA. "All can know beauty as beauty only because there is ugliness"