SBIR/STTR Research Award
BUSLESS PARALLEL COMPUTER MEMORY ACCESSING SCHEME
Award amount
$240,844Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IIAward year
1990Award details
- Awarding agency
- National Science Foundation
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- Mram Inc
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- Not reported
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
RESEARCH ON A NOVEL PARALLEL COMPUTER MEMORY ACCESSING SCHEME IS PROPOSED IN ANSWER TO THE COMPUTER INDUSTRIES DRASTIC NEED FOR AN ACCESSING MECHANISM WHICH ALLOWS AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PROCESSORS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY READ AND WRITE TO A CENTRAL MEMORY IN FRACTIONS OF A MICROSECOND PER CYCLE. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM CONSISTS OF A BUSLESS PARALLEL ARCHITECTURE WHICH WILL ALLOW SIMULTANEOUS PARALLEL COMMUNICATION BETWEEN AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF PROCESSORS AND/OR A GLOBAL MEMORY. THE PROPOSED SYSTEM WILL PROVIDE A SIGNIFICANT LEAP IN TECHNOLOGY AND WILL CRUCIAL TO THE INTERNATIONAL RACE TO BUILD THE NEXT GENERATION COMPUTER. THE KEY STRUCTURAL ELEMENT OF THE ACCESSING SCHEME WILL BE MODELED, FABRICATED, AND TESTED TO DETERMINE SIGNIFICANT OPERATING PARAMETERS. THE RESULTS OF THE TESTS WILL BE USED TO DETERMINE COMMERCIAL VIABILITY.
Technology keywords
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