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

fYear

1993

fDate

4-7 Apr 1993

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Southeastcon '93, Proceedings., IEEE

Conference_Location

Charlotte, NC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1257-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SECON.1993.465658

Filename

465658