BOPS, Inc. Secures $9.5 Million in Second Round.PALO ALTO, Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 1999-- BOPS, Inc., a leader in the emerging market for application-specific processor technology, disclosed closing a $9.5-Million second round of investments. Lead investors for this round are Pequot Capital, VantagePoint Venture Partners, and Band of Angels Venture Fund. Palo Alto-based BOPS also said that it attracted several industry leaders as new board members. Among them Federico Faggin, who led the development of the world's first microprocessor in 1970. BOPS(R), Inc. licenses scalable, reusable ManArray(TM) HDSP HDSP Hardship HDSP High Definition Sound Projector (horn principle used in professional audio systems) Cores (Programmable Digital Signal Processor A digital signal processor (DSP) is a specialized microprocessor designed specifically for digital signal processing, generally in real-time computing. Characteristics of typical Digital Signal Processors
By combining BOPS ManArray low power, high performance HDSP Cores as coprocessors for an ARM, MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. , PowerPC RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. or x86 based SOCs; designers can extend their existing platforms to successive product generations and beyond. BOPS filed 25 patents on the ManArray architecture and has extensive plans to double that number in the near future. The BOPS ManArray HDSP technology delivers extreme price/performance and overall processing performance to applications in communications (3G cellular, xDSL), and multimedia (3D Graphics, DTV (Digital TeleVision) Transmitting TV using digital signals. The major DTV standards are ATSC (North America), DVB (Europe) and ISDB (Japan). All three use MPEG-2 video compression and Dolby Digital audio compression. DVB and ISDB also include MPEG audio compression. , MPEG encoding). The BOPS ManArray HDSP family provides configurable cores ranging in performance from 1 BOPS to over 100 BOPS, with fixed and/or floating point execution units, parallel distributed multi-processing, and flexible system busses. All with a single instruction set and single software tool chain! Products include ManArray HDSP Cores, DMA engine, coprocessor interfaces to MIPS and ARM, other peripherals, programming tools, compilers, software libraries, debuggers, emulation boards, evaluation boards, and design and consulting services. BOPS approach to the SOC design process is comprehensive and includes a complete set of tools supporting their customer's evaluation and design efforts at all levels. This includes a complete selection of tools for SW programming, SOC Codesign, SOC Coverification, Synthesis, and Physical Design. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, with product development offices in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. |
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