Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: relliott@polaris.orl.mmc.com (Ron Elliott)
Subject: Re: "Pizza box" computers
Organization: Lockheed Martin
Date: 13 Sep 1995 12:53:07 GMT
Message-ID: <436k7j$h28@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

In article <4341ms$9p5@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>, pclare@thorn-emi-crl.co.uk (Peter Clare) says:

>Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding of the
>SHARC is that it can do *one* 48 bit transfer per clock cycle - giving
>a data throughput of 240 Mbytes/s (at 40 MHz clock).  Still pretty
>impressive! 

One should also consider the SHARC's 6 link ports which are capable of
an aggregate 240MB/s maximum.  The link ports can be connected to other
SHARCs, i/o devices or memories.
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