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Rapport’s initial product, the KC256™ chip, includes 256 processing elements in a 16x16 array, with a peak of 25 Giga Byte Operations per second (GBops) at 100 MHz while using less than 500 mW. For even higher performance, multiple KC256 chips can be clustered.  The KC256 High performance at low power consumption makes Kilocore® technology ideal for demanding applications like advanced security. A KC256 chip runs the IDEA digital security decryption algorithm 10 times faster than an ARM7®. And the ARM7 consumes 4 times the power (125 mW vs. 500 mW), giving the KC256 a 40x power/performance advantage. Compared to a 1.8 GHz Pentium, the KC256 offers a 500x power/performance advantage. Kilocore’s unique flexibility—its ability to reconfigure a stripe in a clock cycle—enables it to perform multiple tasks, e.g. from encryption in one instant to decoding using popular codecs in another. This ability to "change our stripes" while operating, as well as the ability to support multiple parallel processes can enable Kilocore® products to mimic and replace multiple dedicated chips. | Multiple processing elements (PEs) on a single chip 256 processing elements in a 16x16 matrix Scalable and can be clustered Homogenous MIMD design 144 pin Thin Quad Flat Pack Low power consumption at 15 to 500 mW 100 MHz clock x 256 PEs = 25 GBops Stripes reconfigurable in nano seconds Multiple functions running on single chip |
256 Processing Elements on a Single Chip |
KC256 Technical Overview Product Brief (184 KB pdf)
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