Imagination partners with Blu Wireless on 60GHz IP
Bristol-based start up Blu Wireless is working with Imagination Technologies to advance 60GHz system IP for WiGig and backhaul markets.
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The company's HYDRA baseband technology has been combined with Imagination's MIPS Aptiv processors to create a heterogeneous multiprocessing architecture targeting the burgeoning 60GHz space.
"MIPS microAptiv provides a compelling combination of co-processor support, multicore debug and mature software tools for our HYDRA architecture," said Blu Wireless ceo Mark Barrett.
The architecture combines mixing fixed function dsp blocks in a parallel vector data plane.
Barrett says it provides a mature software development platform for the control plane, delivering configurable co-processor instructions deep into the HYDRA baseband data plane.
"This combination of multicore MIPS and HYDRA vector dsp provides a mature software development, debugging and traceability of dataflow in the high speed data plane," he concluded.