Based in Pennsylvania, most of its founders come from Carnegie Mellon University.
Re-programmable hardware dubbed the ‘Fabric’ does the processing, and programming has to be through a compiler called ‘effcc’.
“The effcc compiler integrates with existing developer tools, acting as a drop-in replacement for GCC/Clang compilers,” according to the company, whose website is not particularly informative – and largely says what is wrong with standard microcontrollers.
However, the company website does have a helpful list of white papers, many of which can be downloaded immediately (scroll down this Efficient Computing web page).
These suggest that Fabric is a form of coarse-grained reconfigurable array.
Electronics Weekly looks forward to power consumption test results from the Electron E1, as well as finding out how much extra silicon area is required to achieve a given performance.
