32-Bit Emulator Chip for High Throughput Processing

摘要

Systems and Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) has developed a high throughput emulator chip which provides direct execution of existing AN/ AYK-14 standard code on the commercially available PowerPC microprocessor. The SPEC emulator chip allows legacy and PowerPC code to be executed simultaneously, supporting an easy migration path to a full PowerPC code implementation. The SPEC emulator chip has better performance than a traditional software emulation or ROM based design. The SPEC emulator chip has lower fabrication and maintenance cost than using a multiple parallel processor approach. In summary, the SPEC emulator chip has the following features: (1) Full AN/AYK-14 emulation, (2) Simultaneously integrates legacy and new native PowerPC code, (3) Requires no software modifications, (4) Direct replacement of the AN/AYK-14 processor card, (5) Ease in performance validation, and (6) Low cost and maintenance. SPEC can develop drop in replacement circuit cards to meet specific user applications based on its ASIC design implementation. Emulator ASICs can either be implemented in CMOS or GaAs providing up to 500 MHz operation.