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Ambric Am2000
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Am2045
Developer Ambric
Manufacturer TSMC
Type Microprocessors
Introduction October 10, 2006 (announced)
December, 2006 (launch)
Architecture Many-core 32-bit microprocessor
Word size 32 bit
4 octets
8 nibbles
Process 130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
Technology CMOS
Clock 1 MHz-333 Mhz
Package FCBGA-868, FCBGA-896

Am2000 was a family of 32-bit MPPAs. The series was introduced at the 2006 Fall Microprocessor Forum. The two flagship models the Am2045 (A) and later Am2045B had over 300 cores with maximum theoretical performance of over one trillion operations per second. Due to the economic downturn of 2008 Ambric assets were sold off to Nethra Imaging which continued to manufacture the chips until 2013. Prior to the acquisition Ambric also announced a 600 cores, 600 MHz model. It's unknown if the model ever made it to market. Designs, software, and related patents are now held by Imagination Technologies.

Ambric, unlike many of its competitors, managed to develop a sound programming model that proved itself to be simple enough and intuitive enough to allow easy programming.

Overview

Introduced in the fall of 2006, the Am2000 is a series of many-core processors implemented as a massively parallel processor array designed to replace high-end embedded processors, DSPs, and FPGAs in applications where fast general-purpose integer arithmetic and digital-signal processing is required. Such tasks usually land themselves fairly well in highly parallel environments.

Ambric's AM2000 series is an example of one of the few massively parallel processors that succeeded in independently developing a solid programming model and tools that worked extremely well with the underlying processor that relatively easy to code. A complete set of development tools were also offered with the product including extensions to Eclipse IDE. Code for the AM2000 used a language called aJava which was a strict subset of Java that compiled directly into machine code.

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Am2000 Models
ModelLaunchedProcessFreqCore Count
Am2012January 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
333 MHz
0.333 GHz
333,000 kHz
96
Am201615 November 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
350 MHz
0.35 GHz
350,000 kHz
120
Am2024January 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
333 MHz
0.333 GHz
333,000 kHz
192
Am202915 November 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
350 MHz
0.35 GHz
350,000 kHz
216
Am2035January 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
333 MHz
0.333 GHz
333,000 kHz
280
Am2045January 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
333 MHz
0.333 GHz
333,000 kHz
344
Am2045B15 November 2007130 nm
0.13 μm
1.3e-4 mm
350 MHz
0.35 GHz
350,000 kHz
344
Am207090 nm
0.09 μm
9.0e-5 mm
600 MHz
0.6 GHz
600,000 kHz
560
Count: 8

Architecture

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Programming

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Applications

The Am2000 has been used for high-definition video processing, medical imaging devices, high performance network processing, image recognition, and various military applications such as drones.

See also

Facts about "Am2000 - Ambric"
designerAmbric +
first announcedOctober 10, 2006 +
first launchedDecember 2006 +
full page nameambric/am2000 +
instance ofmicroprocessor family +
main designerAmbric +
manufacturerTSMC +
nameAmbric Am2000 +
packageFCBGA-868 + and FCBGA-896 +
process130 nm (0.13 μm, 1.3e-4 mm) +
technologyCMOS +
word size32 bit (4 octets, 8 nibbles) +