Accelerating Persistent Surveillance Radar with the Cell Broadband Engine
Multicore processing chips answer the power-energy challenge while increasing processing capability. For many years, increasing the computational power of processing chips has been achieved by increasing the core-clock frequency. However, this boosts the required input power and cooling by the cube of the frequency. A partial answer is achieved by using superscalar, single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) architectures and larger memory caches. Multicore technology takes this trend a step further through the use of multiple full-function cores, each with its own local memory, on a single chip. Surprisingly, the movement toward multicore technology has not been driven by military applications, but … Read More → "Accelerating Persistent Surveillance Radar with the Cell Broadband Engine"