Driving the Multi-core Revolution
Grid on Chip Architecture
Grid on Chip
Traditional bus architectures are becoming increasingly difficult to implement as power leakage and signal integrity is difficult to manage in sub-90ns technologies.
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BCI's gCORE processors employ a new Grid on Chip architecture which arranges system elements such as processor cores, memory, and peripherals on an internal "grid" network. gCORE is one of the first commercial applications of "network on chip" technology, that has been at the forefront of research at leading universities in recent years. It is widely accepted that traditional bus architectures are no longer valid for large scale system on chip implementations in the sub 90 nanometer geometries. Traditional buses become too large, and too slow to support 16 or more processor cores. BCI's Grid on Chip eliminates the system bus as a bottleneck, and utilizes unique technology to make the design fast, scalable, and small.
Ease of use has been one of the biggest obstacles for the widespread adoption of multi-core processors. BCI has taken an unique approach of incorporating a "Time Machine" module in the chip to dynamically assign tasks to each of the processor cores. By alleviating the need to explicitly program each core, this approach greatly simplifies the software development process.
