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Tachyum Runs Supercomputing Vector LINPACK on Prodigy FPGA

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Wednesday, December 6, 2023
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Tachyum ®, creator of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today announced it has successfully completed vector-based High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) testing using 1kb vectors on the Prodigy FPGA.

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  • Tachyum ®, creator of Prodigy®, the world’s first Universal Processor, today announced it has successfully completed vector-based High-Performance LINPACK (HPL) testing using 1kb vectors on the Prodigy FPGA.
  • Following scalar LINPACK benchmarks using Prodigy’s IEEE-compliant scalar Floating-Point Unit (FPU), Tachyum has now advanced to vector LINPACK.
  • Vector instructions have been verified running cleanly on the Prodigy FPGA, including vectorization in GNU Compiler Collection (GCC), libraries, Linux-supporting vectors, as well as running applications and delivering the correct results.
  • With vector LINPACK completed, Tachyum is now focused on the final stage of vector unit verification and testing with FPU: AI matrix operations.

Arduino Uno - The World's Most Popular Development Board Massively Scales Performance with New 32-Bit Versions

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Monday, June 26, 2023
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Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 comes in two versions: the basic UNO R4 Minima and comprehensive UNO R4 WiFi, meeting the budgetary and creative needs of the maker community.

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  • Powered by a 32-bit microcontroller, the new UNO R4 comes in two versions: the basic UNO R4 Minima and comprehensive UNO R4 WiFi, meeting the budgetary and creative needs of the maker community.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230626384375/en/
    The UNO R4 Wifi is designed to meet requests from the Arduino community.
  • Software scalability is also supported on the new board, allowing easy upgrades for projects made with UNO R3 or Leonardo.
  • In close collaboration with our partners, Renesas and Espressif, we believe the UNO R4 is the most versatile maker board on the market.

Tachyum Passes All Tests for FP Compliance With IEEE Standards

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023
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Tachyum ™ announced today it has completed Floating-Point Unit (FPU) verification for Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, having passed all tests to ensure Prodigy adheres to industry computation standards of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

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  • Tachyum ™ announced today it has completed Floating-Point Unit (FPU) verification for Prodigy, the world’s first Universal Processor, having passed all tests to ensure Prodigy adheres to industry computation standards of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).
  • Tachyum built its IEEE-compliant FPU from the ground up to be one of the most advanced in the world, performing at remarkably high clock speeds.
  • Tachyum will also perform continuous regression testing to ensure compliance with new releases.
  • “Establishing compliance with IEEE-prescribed FPU standards clears the way for final integration and testing and gives partners and customers additional assurance of Prodigy’s prowess,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum.

GigaDevice Launches the GD32H7 Arm® Cortex®-M7 MCU Product Family, Delivering Exceptional Performance for Embedded Systems

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Monday, May 29, 2023
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BEIJING, May 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. introduces its first Arm® Cortex®-M7 core microcontroller (MCU) product family, the GD32H737/757/759 ultra-high performance MCU series.

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  • BEIJING, May 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GigaDevice Semiconductor Inc. introduces its first Arm® Cortex®-M7 core microcontroller (MCU) product family, the GD32H737/757/759 ultra-high performance MCU series.
  • "The popularization of connected devices and AI algorithms are driving more intelligence into embedded designs," said Eric Jin, GigaDevice's Product Marketing Director.
  • The GD32H7 MCU series adopts an Arm® Cortex®-M7 high-performance core based on Armv7E-M architecture, with up to 600MHz clock frequency.
  • GigaDevice provides a free development environment for the new GD32H7 MCU series, the GD32 Eclipse IDE, and the GD32 All-In-One Programmer.

Tachyum Successfully Runs LINPACK on FPGA With IEEE 754-2019 Compliant FPU

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Tuesday, November 29, 2022
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This was achieved by running applications under Linux on the integer part of the processor and uses IEEE compliant Floating-Point Unit (FPU) to analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-square problems.

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  • This was achieved by running applications under Linux on the integer part of the processor and uses IEEE compliant Floating-Point Unit (FPU) to analyze and solve linear equations and linear least-square problems.
  • LINPACK measures a systems floating-point computing power by solving a dense system of linear equations to determine performance.
  • After successfully reaching this FPU milestone, Tachyum has only four more steps to go before the final netlist of the Prodigy processor chip.
  • Its FPU is fully IEEE compliant and corner cases have been successfully debugged.