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CELL- PROCESSOR
Part 1: Introduction

STI CELL PROCESSOR
Next generation processors
Just as the cells in a body unite to form complete physical systems, a "Cell" architecture will allow all kinds of electronic devices (from consumer products to supercomputers) to work together, signaling a new era in Internet entertainment, communications and collaboration.
THE VISION:
Breakthrough microprocessor architecture that puts broadband communications right on
the chip.
Markets:
• Next-generation communications
• Consumer multimedia applications
STI cell processor defined
Two years ago, Sony and Toshiba and IBM (STI) announced that they had teamed up to design an architecture for what is termed a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design. Code-named Cell, chips based on the architecture will be able to use ultra high-speed broadband connectivity to interoperate with one another as one complete system, similar to the way
.neural cells interoperate over the brain’s network.
Market demand for STI cell processor
STI expects Cell to define an entirely new way of operating. Cell's underlying architecture will enable it to manifest itself into many forms for many purposes, helping to open up a whole new set of applications. Incorporating this architecture, chips will be developed for everything from handheld devices to mainframe computers.
IBM strategy with STI cell processor
STI has an unmatched history and capability of building custom chips and believes the one-size-fits-all model of the PC does not apply in the embedded space; embedded applications will require a flexible architecture, like Cell. Cell also brings together, for
the first time, many leading-edge IBM chip technologies and circuit designs developed
for its servers.
STI cell processor benefits
Cell will take advantage of IBM's most advanced semiconductor development and process technologies. These cells will deliver high performance while consuming small quantities of power.
Part 2: Inside The Cell
Background
Although it's been primarily touted as the technology for the PlayStation 3, Cell is designed for much more. Sony and Toshiba, both being major electronics manufacturers buy in all manner of different components, one of the reasons for Cell's development is they want to save costs by building their own components. Next generation consumer technologies such as BluRay, HDTV, HD Camcorders and of course the PS3 will all require a very high level of computing power and this is going to need chips to provide it. Cell will be used for all of these and more, IBM will also be using the chips in servers and they can also be sold to 3rd party manufacturers [3rd party].
Sony and Toshiba previously co-operated on the PlayStation 2 but this time the designs are a more aggressive and required the help of a third partner to help design and manufacture the new chips. IBM brings not only it's chip design expertise but also it's industry leading silicon process and their ability to get things to work - when even the biggest chip firms in the industry have problems it's IBM who get the call to come and help. the companies they've helped is a who's who of the semiconductor industry.
The amount of money being spent on this project is vast, two 65nm chip fabrication facilities are being built at billions each and Sony has paid IBM hundreds of millions to set up a production line in Fishkill. Then there's a few hundred million on development - all before a single chip rolls of the production lines.
So, what is Cell Architecture
Cell is an architecture for high performance distributed computing. It is comprised of hardware and software Cells, software Cells consist of data and programs (known as apulets), these are sent out to the hardware Cells where they are computed and results returned.
This architecture is not fixed in any way, if you have a computer, PS3 and HDTV which
have Cell processors they can co-operate on problems. They've been talking about this sort of thing for years of course but the Cell is actually designed to do it. I for one quite like the idea of watching "Contact" on my TV while a PS3 sits in the background churning through a SETI@home [SETI] unit every 5 minutes. If you know how long a SETI unit takes your jaw should have just hit the floor, suffice to say, Cells are very, very fast [Calc].
It can go further though, there's no reason why your system can't distribute software Cells over a network or even all over the world. The Cell is designed to fit into everything from PDAs up to servers so you can make an ad-hoc Cell computer out of completely different systems.
Scaling is just one capability of Cell, the individual systems are going to be potent enough on their own. The single unit of computation in a Cell system is called a Processing Element (PE) and even an individual PE is one hell of a powerful processor, they have a theoretical computing capability of 250 GFLOPS (Billion Floating Point Operations per Second) [GFLOPS]. In the computing world quoted figures (bandwidth, processing, throughput) are often theoretical maximums and rarely if ever met in real life. Cell may be unusual in that given the right type of problem they may actually be able to get close to their maximum computational figure.
Specifications
An individual Processing Element (i.e. Hardware Cell) is made up of a number of elements:
• 1 Processing Unit (PU)
• 8 X Attached Processing Units (APUs)
• Direct memory Access Controller DMAC
• Input/Output (I/O) Interface
The full specifications haven't been given out yet (feb2005) but some details [Specs] are out there:
• 4.6 GHz
• 1.3v
• 85 Celsius operation with heat sink
• 6.4 Gigabit / second off-chip communication
All those internal processing units need to be fed so a high speed memory and I/O system is an absolute necessity. for this purpose Sony and Toshiba have licensed the high speed "Yellowstone" and "Redwood" technologies from Rambus [Rambus], the 6.4 Gb/s I/O was also designed in part by Rambus.
The Processor Unit (PU)
As we now know the PU is a 64bit "Power Architecture" processor. Power Architecture is a catch all term IBM have been using for a while to describe both PowerPC and POWER processors. Currently there's only 3 CPUs which fit this description: POWER5, POWER4 and the PowerPC 970 (aka G5) which itself is a derivation of the POWER4.
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