We welcome CEVA and Tensilica to the HSA Foundation. They both add a new dimension to the Foundation, as leaders in acceleration solution for mobile, networking, automotive and digital home. We look forward to having CEVA and Tensilica in conjunction with Qualcomm and TI this truly branches HSA into another acceleration domain with support of non-GPU compute devices.
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HSA Foundation Announces LG Electronics as Newest Member
NEWS RELEASE
Contact:
Marco Peña
Edelman for HSA Foundation
(650) 762-2861
HSA Foundation Announces LG Electronics as Newest Member
– OEM support combined with a wave of new members set the stage to bring power-efficient HSA processing capabilities to consumer electronics –
AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. XX, 2012 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today announced that LG Electronics has joined as a member. LG’s diverse product portfolio and industry experience are valuable additions in helping HSA and its members reach common goals, ultimately benefiting consumers. With LG Electronics on board, new possibilities emerge as the fusion of HSA and LG’s current IP bring a whole new level of interactivity for consumers- from home appliances to entertainment systems, the HSA foundation acquires greater depth in the smartphone, tablets, TV, digital cameras, game consoles and even the E-reader space. This allows for an entire ecosystem of electronics that touch the lives of consumers throughout their day to be enhanced via a common Heterogeneous Systems Architecture.
The HSA Foundation continues working toward developing a single architecture specification that will unlock the performance and power efficiency of parallel computing engines found in many modern devices. These specifications also open up a more simplified approach to software development in heterogeneous environments which will enable a broad range of programmers to drive richer user experiences into their applications.
“LG is known for bringing innovative products to market, and their decision to embrace the HSA vision reinforces the importance of driving and developing a standard across the industry,” said Phil Rogers, HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate Fellow. “With HSA, computing becomes more power efficient, enabling technology companies like LG to create unique and compelling experiences for consumers at home, work and on the go.”
“We are evaluating the SoC core technology trend and looking at bringing innovative, competitive SoCs to market,” said Seung-Jong Choi, vice president of DTV SoC Department, SIC Lab, LG Electronics Inc. “Joining the HSA Foundation is one of the ways we can continue to innovate SoCs, and I am confident we will achieve fruitful results.”
HSA President, Phil Rogers, will be speaking at this year’s ARM TechCon, during the Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power session on November 1, 2012.
Since its formation in June, the HSA Foundation has more than doubled its membership with new Founder, Promoter, Supporter, Contributor and Associate members that have joined the consortium.
Current Founder members
- AMD
- ARM
- Imagination Technologies
- MediaTek Inc.
- Qualcomm
- Samsung Electronics
- Texas Instruments
Supporting Resources
- For additional information about the HSA Foundation visit: www.hsafoundation.com
- Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter: @HSAFoundation
- “Like” the HSA Foundation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HSAFoundation
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing.
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DMP Joins Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation to Contribute Its Expertise in 3D Graphics and Common Compute
DMP Joins Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation to Contribute Its Expertise in 3D Graphics and Common Compute
Tokyo, Japan– October30th, 2012 – Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP), a leading provider of 2D/3D graphics Intellectual Property (IP) cores, today announced it has joined to be new member and contributor to Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation. HSA targets to push standard based architecture and interface for common computing use cases between CPU and GPU for the effective and hardware accelerated performance and power consumption in next generation compute platforms.
By supporting HSA Foundation initiative DMP wants to accelerate and simplify the application development for the mobile GPGPU platforms to benefit heterogeneous architectures and computing which enables smooth user experience for computer vision, image processing and graphics intensive applications in small consumer devices.
“Heterogeneous architectures on mobile GPGPU platforms will greatly benefit users looking for a seamless graphics and compute experience from their electronic devices,” said Greg Stoner vice president and managing director of the HSA Foundation. “With DMP’s commitment to driving the HSA standard forward, the integration of their technology in next generation mobile, embedded and consumer electronic platforms will change the way consumers interact with their devices.”
“We are thrilled to join HSA foundation as an active contributor and look forward to working with consortium to push and accelerate the usage of standard heterogeneous architecture in next generation mobile, embedded and consumer devices,” said Tatsuo Yamamoto, CEO of DMP. “We see that supporting the HSA DMP can expand and deepen our touch for application development ecosystem and several vertical industries that will benefit by using DMP graphics IP core for next generation consumer devices.”
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing. Learn more about HSA and the HSA Foundation at www.hsafoundation.com.
About DMP
Digital Media Professionals Inc. (DMP)(TOKYO:3652) develops industry leading 2D and 3D graphics solutions to global consumer electronics, mobile, embedded and automotive markets. Company has been founded at Tokyo, Japan in 2002 and is currently developing several graphics IP cores based on the open Khronos™ Group standards and DMP’s cutting edge 3D graphics technology DMP Maestro Technology.
Techcon Keynote 2012: Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power – HSA
Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power – HSA
Speaker: Phil Rogers
HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate Fellow, AMD
Phil Rogers is an AMD Corporate Fellow and President of the HSA Foundation. At AMD, Phil is the lead architect for the Heterogeneous System Architecture, focused on drastically reducing the power consumed when running modern applications, and enabling the software ecosystem for heterogeneous computing.Sessions
Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power – HSA
Sensor Integration and Improved User Experiences at Even Lower Power – HSA
Location: Grand Ballroom C
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 1:30 PM-2:20 PM
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 1:30 PM-2:20 PM
HSA is a new computing platform architecture being standardized by the HSA Foundation which has as Founding members, AMD, ARM, Imagination, TI, Mediatek, Samsung and Qualcomm. HSA is intended to make the use of heterogeneous programming widespread by making purpose built architectures as easy to program as modern CPUs are. We start off by doing this with the GPU, the most widely deployed companion processor to the CPU and one which especially complements the CPU in low power and performance workloads. This requires some hardware architecture changes, that we have been working on for some time (in particular those that enable user mode scheduling, unified address space, unified shared memory, compute context switching, etc.) and which we have encapsulated into the spec currently under review by the HSA Foundation.
In short, HSA codifies the hardware architecture changes that are needed to enable mainstream programmers to develop heterogeneous application with the same facility that they do CPU only applications by seamlessly integrating the sequential programming capability of the CPU with the parallel compute capability of the GPU. We describe the software stacks that are needed for HSA, the benefits that accrue to both developers as well as end users, and describe our vision of the how HSA will help unify the ecosystems of the smartphone and tablet platforms as well as bring it closer to that of the traditional PC market. We will provide analysis of several examples which arise in applications and present data to validate the performance per watt benefit of HSA.
SMP, Asymmetric Multi- processing And The HSA Foundation
When we hear the term “multiprocessing,” we often associate it with “symmetric multiprocessing (SMP).” This is because of SMP’s initial prevalence in the high-performance computing world, and now in x86/x64 servers and PCs. However, it’s been known for years that SMP’s ability to scale performance as the number of cores increases is poor. (For more information on SMP’s inability to scale well, read Jack Ganssle’s 2008 embedded.com article, “The Nulticore Effect,” or the IEEE Spectrum/Sandia Labs article, “Multicore is Bad News for Supercomputers: Adding cores slows data-intensive applications.”)
see more on this Article by Kurt Shuler VP of Marking at Arteris a member of the HSA Foundation at http://chipdesignmag.com/sld/shuler/2012/09/27/smp-asymmetric-multiprocessing-and-the-hsa-foundation/
HSA Foundation Announces Qualcomm as Newest Founder Member
NEWS RELEASE
Contact:
Greg Wood
Edelman for HSA Foundation
(650) 762-2838
greg.wood@edelman.com
HSA Foundation Announces Qualcomm as Newest Founder Member
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AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 3, 2012 – The Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation today announced that Qualcomm Incorporated has joined as a Founder Member. Qualcomm’s commitment reinforces HSA as the next technological underpinning in computing for a broad range of platforms and devices. Since its formation in June, the HSA Foundation has more than doubled its membership with new Founder, Supporter, Contributor and Associate members that have joined the consortium.
Qualcomm joins AMD (NYSE: AMD), ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek Inc., Samsung Electronics Ltd. and Texas Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN) as founder members of the HSA Foundation. The companies are working together to drive a single architecture specification, which simplifies the programming model for software developers on modern platforms and devices. The HSA Foundation will unlock the performance and power efficiency of the parallel computing engines found in heterogeneous processors.
“It’s great to see an innovative company like Qualcomm, which has revolutionized the wireless communications market, placing their support behind HSA,” said Phil Rogers, HSA Foundation President and AMD Corporate Fellow. “With HSA, computing becomes much more power efficient, enabling member companies like Qualcomm, to create unique and compelling experiences for the consumer.”
“Future Snapdragon processors from Qualcomm will contain substantially more computing performance and integrated parallel processing technology in order to meet the high performance, low power needs of our mobile customers,” said Jim Thompson, senior vice president of engineering at Qualcomm. “We believe that developers will be able to deliver faster and more innovative applications on future Snapdragon processors if certain aspects of heterogeneous computing are standardized, so we are pleased to join the HSA Foundation to help define open standards.”
HSA Foundation continues to build momentum throughout the industry and will be delivering technical presentations at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, Sept. 30 – Oct. 3, 2012; and at the 2012 ARM TechCon, Oct. 30 – Nov. 1.
Supporting Resources
- For additional information about HSA and the HSA Foundation visit the HSA Foundation website at www.hsafoundation.com.
- Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter: @HSAFoundation.
- “Like” the HSA Foundation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HSAFoundation.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing.
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The HSA Foundation logo is a trademark of the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
What is Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)?
The Challenges with Computing Today
The computing industry is approaching a formidable obstacle course where anyone wishing to drive advances in computing technology must carefully negotiate several key trade-offs. First, reducing power consumption is increasingly critical across all segments of computing. Consumers want improved battery life, size, and weight for their laptops, tablets, and smartphones. Likewise data center power demands and cooling costs continue to rise.
At the same time, we demand constantly improving performance to enable compelling new user experiences. We want to access our devices through more natural interfaces (speech and gesture), and we want devices to manage ever-expanding volumes of data (home movies, pictures, and a world of content available in the cloud).
To deliver these new user experiences, programmer productivity is another essential element that must be delivered. It must be easy for software developers to tap into new capabilities by using familiar, powerful programming models.
Finally, it is increasingly important that software be supported across a broad spectrum of devices. Developers cannot sustain today’s trend of re-writing code for an ever expanding number of different platforms.
To navigate this complex set of requirements, the computer industry needs a different approach – a more efficient approach to computer architecture. We need an approach that promises to deliver improvement across all 4 of these vectors: power, performance, programmability and portability.
Introducing Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Since their earliest days, computers have contained central processing units (CPUs) designed to run general programming tasks very well. But in the last couple of decades, mainstream computer systems typically include other processing elements as well. The most prevalent is the graphics processing unit (GPU), originally designed to perform specialized graphics computations in parallel. Over time, GPUs have become more powerful and more generalized, allowing them to be applied to general purpose parallel computing tasks with excellent power efficiency.
But current CPUs and GPUs have been designed as separate processing elements and do not work together efficiently…
Today, a growing number of mainstream applications require the high performance and power efficiency achievable only through such highly parallel computation. But current CPUs and GPUs have been designed as separate processing elements and do not work together efficiently – and are cumbersome to program. Each has a separate memory space, requiring an application to explicitly copy data from CPU to GPU and then back again.
A program running on the CPU queues work for the GPU using system calls through a device driver stack managed by a completely separate scheduler. This introduces significant dispatch latency, with overhead that makes the process worthwhile only when the application requires a very large amount of parallel computation. Further, if a program running on the GPU wants to directly generate work-items, either for itself or for the CPU, it is impossible today!
HSA creates an improved processor design that exposes the benefits and capabilities of mainstream programmable compute elements, working together seamlessly.
To fully exploit the capabilities of parallel execution units, it is essential for computer system designers to think differently. The designers must re-architect computer systems to tightly integrate the disparate compute elements on a platform into an evolved central processor while providing a programming path that does not require fundamental changes for software developers. This is the primary goal of the new HSA design.
HSA creates an improved processor design that exposes the benefits and capabilities of mainstream programmable compute elements, working together seamlessly. With HSA, applications can create data structures in a single unified address space and can initiate work items on the hardware most appropriate for a given task. Sharing data between compute elements is as simple as sending a pointer. Multiple compute tasks can work on the same coherent memory regions, utilizing barriers and atomic memory operations as needed to maintain data synchronization (just as multi-core CPUs do today).
The HSA team at AMD analyzed the performance of Haar Face Detect, a commonly used multi-stage video analysis algorithm used to identify faces in a video stream. The team compared a CPU/GPU implementation in OpenCL™ against an HSA implementation. The HSA version seamlessly shares data between CPU and GPU, without memory copies or cache flushes because it assigns each part of the workload to the most appropriate processor with minimal dispatch overhead. The net result was a 2.3x relative performance gain at a 2.4x reduced power level*. This level of performance is not possible using only multicore CPU, only GPU, or even combined CPU and GPU with today’s driver model. Just as important, it is done using simple extensions to C++, not a totally different programming model.
HW Configuration
- 4GB RAM; Windows 7 (64-bit); OpenCL™ 1.1
- APU: AMD A10 4600M with Radeon™ HD Graphics
- CPU: 4 cores @ 2.3 MHz (turbo 3.2 GHz)
- GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7660G, 6 compute units, 685MHz
Taking HSA to the Industry
To reach beyond mere niche adoption, it is essential to provide a deployment path beyond the realm of any single hardware vendor. The ultimate goal for software developers is “write once, run everywhere” which requires a unified install-base across all platforms and devices. This is the HSA vision. Thus, the HSA Foundation (HSAF) was formed as an open industry standards body to unify the computing industry around a common approach. The founding members of HSA were announced at the 2012 AFDS event: AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek and Texas Instruments.
The HSA Foundation aims to help system designers integrate different kinds of computing elements (such as CPUs and GPUs) in a way that eliminates the inefficiencies of sharing data and sending work items between them. The HSA design allows multiple hardware solutions to be exposed to software through a common standard low-level interface layer, called HSA Intermediate Language (HSAIL). HSAIL provides a single target for low-level software and tools. HSAIL is sufficiently flexible and yet low-level enough to allow each hardware vendor to efficiently map to its individual underlying hardware design. And HSAIL frees the programmer from the burden of tailoring a program to a specific hardware platform – the same code runs on target systems with different CPU/GPU configurations.
Transparent to Software
An important key to the success of HSA is its ability to simplify the process of getting applications to run on the architecture. As seen in the past, it is not sufficient to ask application vendors to change their software to fit a new kind of hardware – that path leads to niche success at best. This is especially true for proprietary (non-standard) platforms. To reach the mainstream, it must be easy for everyone to participate. The HSA approach is simple: bring the hardware to the application programmer. HSA includes the hardware, interfaces, common intermediate language, and standard runtime components to do all the necessary work. HSA maintains memory coherency and manages work queues under the hood, without exposing the underlying system complexity to the application developer.
This means providing mainstream programming languages and libraries targeting HSA. This will provide a transparent path for millions of developers (along with their existing code) to directly benefit from the efficiencies of HSA. AMD is starting this process by delivering HSA optimized programming tools for today’s most widely available heterogeneous languages: OpenCL™ and C++ AMP. Going forward, AMD along with the HSAF members will expand the set of developer tools to encompass many other languages and libraries across multiple software domains and segments.
Getting Involved with HSA
HSA is all about delivering new, improved user experiences through advances in computing architectures that deliver improvements across all four key vectors: improved power efficiency; improved performance; improved programmability; and broad portability across computing devices.
To achieve this vision, the HSA Foundation is open to contributions from like-minded professionals across the computing industry – IHVs, OEMs/ODMs, OSVs, language and tools vendors, library and middleware vendors, and application vendors – who want to help realize the next era in computer system architecture and innovation. For information on HSA, HSAF, foundation membership, and contact information, please visit the HSA Foundation.
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Arteris Joins Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation, Contributing NoC Interconnect Expertise
Arteris Joins Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) Foundation, Contributing NoC Interconnect Expertise
Network-on-chip pioneer’s protocol-agnostic technology and experience to help accelerate creation and adoption of standardized heterogeneous programming model
SUNNYVALE, California – August 31, 2012 – Arteris Inc., the inventor and leading supplier of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP solutions, today announced that it has joined the recently announced HSA Foundation as a Supporter member and will be actively involved in numerous working groups. The organization offers an open, standards-based approach to heterogeneous computing, seeking to provide a set of common hardware and software specifications allowing software developers to more easily take advantage of modern heterogeneous processors. Arteris joins the HSA Foundation to bring to realization its vision of true “plug-and-play” heterogeneous IP core integration on systems-on-chip (SoCs). This will finally enable hardware designers to provide software developers the flexibility to make coordinated optimizations for speed, power consumption, and cost. For more information on the HSA Foundation, go to www.hsafoundation.com
Arteris will contribute its decade of experience optimizing NoC technology to connect multiple CPU, GPU, and other IP cores on SoCs. In addition, Arteris system IP technology enables on-chip visibility at runtime for real-time system performance monitoring and tuning. This gives higher level application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system kernels the information to make energy efficient thread scheduling decisions. Arteris’ technical know-how, coupled with other HSA member companies’ technology, will unlock the performance and power efficiency of the computing engines found in heterogeneous processors.
“The next era of heterogeneous computing will be enabled by industry leaders coming together around a standards-based approach and programming model,” said Greg Stoner, vice president and managing director of the HSA Foundation. “HSA is built on technological leadership and innovation from companies like Arteris that are creating SoC IP focused on delivering unique user experiences and bringing greater efficiencies in the broad set of devices extending from mobile well into the cloud.”
“The heterogeneous processor SoC market is expanding rapidly and our industry is on the verge of making significant technical strides in multicore computing,” said K. Charles Janac, President and CEO of Arteris. “Arteris will contribute key pieces of this puzzle, not only with our interconnect technology but also system IP that provides critical visibility to optimize system performance. We look forward to working with other HSA members to achieve a standardized heterogeneous programming model.”
About Arteris
Arteris, Inc. provides Network-on-Chip interconnect IP and tools to accelerate System-on-Chip semiconductor (SoC) assembly for a wide range of applications. Results obtained by using the Arteris product line include lower power, higher performance, more efficient design reuse and faster development of ICs, SoCs and FPGAs.
Founded by networking experts and offering the first commercially available Network-on-Chip IP products, Arteris operates globally with headquarters in Sunnyvale, California and an engineering center in Paris, France. Arteris is a private company backed by a group of international investors including ARM Holdings, Crescendo Ventures, DoCoMo Capital, Qualcomm Incorporated, Synopsys, TVM Capital, and Ventech. More information can be found at www.arteris.com.
About Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)
Developers will benefit from the open standard programming of HSA for both the CPU and GPU, which allows the two processors to work cooperatively and directly in system memory. Additionally, HSA provides a single architecture across multiple operating systems and hardware designs. By maximizing the full compute capabilities of systems with both CPUs and GPUs, users can see performance and energy efficiency boosts across a variety of applications.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing.
Arteris, FlexNoC and the Arteris logo are trademarks of Arteris. All other product or service names are the property of their respective owners.
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For more Arteris information, contact:
Kurt Shuler
Arteris, Inc.
+1 408-470-7300
kurt.shuler@arteris.com
HSA Foundation Announces Six New Members
HSA Foundation Announces Six New Members
– ISVs and chip design companies add to the value chain to bring power-efficient HSA processing capabilities to market –
AUSTIN, Texas – Aug. 31, 2012 – Today the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation announced six new members have joined the consortium. The HSA Foundation is pleased to welcome Apical, Arteris Inc., MulticoreWare Inc., Sonics, Symbio and Vivante Corporation to the membership roster. Each company is adding expertise to the HSA ecosystem by assisting with research, development, production, manufacture, use, and the sale of HSA IP and heterogeneous computing software.
These new members range from Supporter, Contributor and Associate-level members. Working closely with the founding members of AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek Inc., Samsung Electronics and Texas Instruments (TI), the new members will contribute to the growing adoption of heterogeneous computing.
“As the word gets out about the HSA Foundation, we’re experiencing a groundswell of support from a wide range of companies that are interested in power-efficiency and heterogeneous computing,” said Greg Stoner, vice president and managing director of the HSA Foundation. “HSA will enable the next era of computing from mobile and embedded to HPC and cloud computing, but it requires having a full value chain in place from silicon to IP to ISVs.”
New Member Quotes
- Apical – a leader in advanced image processing technology
“We are living in a world of screens where visuals have become the preferred choice of how we communicate,” said Michael Tusch, chief executive officer of Apical. As a new member of the HSA Foundation, we look forward to leveraging heterogeneous computing to deliver advanced digital imaging and display technologies that will improve the user experience.”
- Arteris – a leading supplier of network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect IP solutions
“HSA will usher in a new era of advanced processing capabilities,” said K. Charles Janac, president and chief executive officer of Arteris. “To optimize for power and performance, we will provide network-on-chip interconnect IP and system IP that will make HSA systems-on-chip more efficient, minimizing power consumption and size for consumer electronics, mobile, automotive and other applications.”
- MulticoreWare – a leading software tool and library provider
“MulticoreWare has been at the forefront of providing developer tools and libraries that leverage heterogeneous computing,” said AGK Karunakaran, president and chief executive officer of MulticoreWare. “As HSA takes hold as an industry standard and becomes the interface for parallel computing, we will provide the tools, libraries and support to semiconductor vendors with their HSA supported SDKs and developers at ISVs that want to optimize their applications for the next era of computing performance.”
- Sonics – a leading supplier of system IP for cloud-scale SoCs
“Technology companies are rushing to deliver products that satisfy the growing appetite for connected devices and content,” said Jack Browne, vice president of marketing at Sonics. “Our broad portfolio of system IP, which includes network, memory, power and security subsystems, helps leading SoC vendors build better chips, faster and at lower cost. Sonics’ support of HSA will further accelerate SoC and OEM vendors’ time-to-market and put the next-generation of connected devices in consumers’ hands sooner.”
- Symbio – a leading provider of R&D innovation services and outsourced product development solutions
“The Symbio engineering team has been somewhat bound by the limitations of traditional processor and graphics architectures,” said Jarkko Kemppainen, director, Technology Program at Symbio. “With HSA we have an opportunity to unbind these limitations by utilizing new heterogeneous architecture. We’re just scratching at the surface of all the possibilities as performance of many of the algorithms and usage cases will be significantly improved.”
- Vivante – a worldwide leader in graphics and GPU Compute technologies for handheld, consumer and embedded devices
“The heterogeneous computing revolution has taken a huge step forward with the formation of an open standard driven by HSA Foundation. As a global innovator in graphics and GPU technologies, Vivante is excited to join the foundation as it defines a hybrid platform architecture that takes full advantage of the massively parallel processing cores in our GPUs,” said Wei-Jin Dai, president and chief executive officer of Vivante. “We look forward to collaborating with ecosystem partners as we bring exciting hybrid computing initiatives to future mobile, consumer, and embedded devices.”
Supporting Resources
- For additional information about HSA and the HSA Foundation visit the HSA Foundation web site at www.hsafoundation.com.
- Check out the latest whitepaper about HSA here.
- Check out a video about the Surround Computing Era here.
- Follow the HSA Foundation on Twitter: @HSAFoundation.
- “Like” the HSA Foundation on Facebook: www.facebook.com/HSAFoundation.
About the HSA Foundation
The HSA (Heterogeneous System Architecture) Foundation is a not-for-profit consortium for SoC IP vendors, OEMs, academia, SoC vendors, OSVs and ISVs whose goal is to make it easy to program for parallel computing. HSA members are building a heterogeneous compute ecosystem, rooted in industry standards, for combining scalar processing on the CPU with parallel processing on the GPU while enabling high bandwidth access to memory and high application performance at low power consumption. HSA defines interfaces for parallel computation utilizing CPU, GPU and other programmable and fixed function devices, and support for a diverse set of high-level programming languages, thereby creating the next foundation in general purpose computing. Learn more about HSA and the HSA Foundation at www.hsafoundation.com.
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The HSA Foundation logo is a trademark of the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.