Title :
The architecture of the shared memory subsystem of the Minitaur II parallel computer system
Author :
Kulick, Jeffrey H. ; Pennycook, Bruce
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Alabama Univ., Huntsville, AL, USA
Firstpage :
0.666666666666667
Abstract :
The Minitaur-II parallel processor computer has been developed for real-time processing of audio signals. It consists of nine TMS 320C30 processors distributed over three 9U VME boards which are installed in a SUN workstation. The shared memory system of the Minitaur-II has a number of novel capabilities including the ability to create a segmented bus in real-time, initiate indivisible transfers of large data structures, broadcast data to multiple processors, and dynamically allocate data among the processors. The architectural capabilities of the Minitaur-II system have been duplicated in a set of SUN library functions, so that users may debug multiprocess programs on a single workstation, and then recompile and down-load them to the parallel processor
Keywords :
audio signals; memory architecture; parallel architectures; shared memory systems; signal processing; signal processing equipment; workstations; 9U VME boards; Minitaur II parallel computer system; SUN library functions; SUN workstation; TMS 320C30 processors; audio signal; computer architecture; data allocation; data broadcasting; data structures; parallel processor; real-time processing; segmented bus; shared memory subsystem; Computer architecture; Concurrent computing; Instruments; Neural networks; Random access memory; Real time systems; Signal processing; Speech processing; Sun; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Southeastcon '93, Proceedings., IEEE
Conference_Location :
Charlotte, NC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1257-0
DOI :
10.1109/SECON.1993.465658
