The Cell Broadband Engine (BE) processor is a breakthrough technology capable of massive floating-point processing for compute-intensive applications. Originally designed for the home entertainment market, the Cell BE processor's architecture of nine heterogeneous on-chip cores is ideal for the type...

Modular standards such as AdvancedTCA and AdvancedMCs promise Telecom Equipment Manufacturers reduced design and manufacturing costs as well as marketing advantages from standards claims. The potential market scale for these standards encompasses green-field equipment opportunities, customization pr...

VXS adds a high-speed, serial RapidIO fabric to the battle-tested VME architecture. This VITA 41.2 extension promises to increase the performance of fabric-limited applications by three times or more. Designers and developers are looking to VXS to solve defense embedded compute problems with serial...