Ramon Chips licenses CEVA-X DSP

Ramon Chips developing Radiation Hardened ASIC solutions for space applications, has licensed the CEVA-X1643 for its RC64 64-core parallel processor for compute intensive space electronics applications. Ramon will integrate sixty-four CEVA-X1643 DSPs into the RC64 processor provide higher computing on-board in satellites deployed for communications, earth observation, science and many other applications. RC64 is a 65nm CMOS parallel processor, providing 384 GOPS, 38 GFLOPS and 60 Gbps data rate. Each of the 64 CEVA-X1643 cores has direct access to a 4MB shared memory, in addition to private memories and caches, including support for ECC. The cores are managed at runtime by a hardware synchronizer that automatically manages parallel tasks, enabling nearly-perfect dynamic load balancing among the cores and facilitates task switching at a very high rate and very low latency. "The underlying processor technologies in satellites have remained mostly unchanged for nearly two decades, resulting in poor performance for today's processing-intensive applications," said Prof. Ran Ginosar, CEO at Ramon Chips. "Our new RC64 processor based on the CEVA-X1643 DSP promises to change this, bringing outstanding performance, programmability and scalability to next-generation satellite systems, and enabling the massively parallel processing required for many of the latest satellite communic...