Toshiba Corp has started sample shipping of the SpursEngine SE1000, a high-performance stream processor integrating four synergistic processing element (SPE) cores derived from the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/BE).
SpursEngine is a co-processor that integrates a hardware Codec for full HD encoding and decoding of MPEG-2 and H.264 streams with four SPEs derived from Cell/BE. These advanced processing elements are said to offer high performance media streaming capabilities, with a clock frequency of 1.5GHz, while achieving low power consumption range of 10W to 20W.
Toshiba will support developers working on SpursEngine applications with a reference kit that includes a reference board and essential middleware APIs. The reference board has a PCI-Express Edge connector that can connect to a x1 layer slot in a PC. Toshiba will also provide an integrated development environment (SPE compiler, SPE debugger, and performance monitor) and sample applications that demonstrate how to use the provided middleware. With the reference kit, customers can construct an evaluation and development environment and accelerate product development.
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