While COTS processors benefit from a large user base and the resulting maturity of the design process, customized processors provide the following advantages: (i design in conjunction with the safety argument, (ii design for good worst-case performance, (iii)using only features that can be easily analyzed, (iv the processor can be treated as a white box during verification and testing.
You have to make all the inventions yourself and fund them yourself". And the basic Cray approach--based on very, very fast, highly customized processors--is now being displaced by designs which harness hundreds or even thousands of cheap, off-the-shelf microprocessors.
As compared to traditional customize processor design, the mechanism provides a very broad range of cost/performance points.
Processors can be designed by hand; a variety of analysis and optimization techniques have been developed to help designers customize processors.
In particular, in the first design phases, it has been customized for LEON3 processor, but it can be easily extended to other soft-processors, as described in the final considerations.
The system utilizes a triple-layer phoswich detector and a customized Digital Pulse Processor (DPP) designed and built in our laboratory.
The types of processor cores covered include general purpose RISC cores, traditional DSP, a VLIW approach to signal processing, processor cores that can be customized for specific applications, reconfigurable processors, protocol processors, Java engines, and stream processors.
Using Illumina HiSeq machines, an Edico Genome DRAGEN Processor and customized software packages, the team at Children's Mercy sequenced and analyzed a whole human genome in just 26 hours.
