Introduction The goal of this document is to provide a complete guide on how to build an SD card image used for booting Linux on the Parallella board. This document can be used as a follow-up to the Parallella Platform…

Introduction The Parallella platform was created based on a foundation of openness. We are committed to providing the Parallella community with every tool needed to make the modifications to the platform in the easiest way possible. This means providing free…

Introduction Nobody knows which computer architecture or chip company will dominate the industry in five years, but we know one thing for sure: scalability will play a key role in determining the “winner”. A scalable computer architecture should: Have very…

Today we are proud to announce that we have completed integrating the Epiphany-IV 64-core 28nm chip with the Parallella prototyping platform.  This is a major milestone as it demonstrates a practical path to delivering 64-core credit card sized boards later…

One of the central focuses of the Epiphany architecture and the Parallella platform is energy efficient computing. We understand that many developers are interested in measuring the power consumption of their applications running on the Epiphany chips. For this purpose…

At last! This week we received the second batch of Epiphany FMC daughtercards to be combined with the Zynq boards that were waiting here for quite some time now (picture of which was posted on a previous Kickstarter update). So,…

With the emergence of OpenCL as the de facto standard for heterogeneous computing, the cost of adopting a new processor architecture has dropped dramatically.     There are now OpenCL SDKs for CPUs, GPUs, DSPs and FPGAs and with a…

by Gunnar Hillerström, Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI) Andreas Olofsson, Adapteva In a Software Defined Radio, the aim is to implement as much of the analog circuitry (mixers, modulators, filters etc) as possible in the digital domain. Key components in…

Introduction Throughout the Parallella Kickstarter project we have described the Epiphany accelerator in great detail but we haven’t talked much about the dual-core ARM-A9 host processor on the board.  Today we are officially announcing that the host processor is the…

With all the different metrics used to market microprocessors today it can be very challenging to separate the winners from the losers.  Should we count #cores, GHZ, GFLOPS, GFLOPS/Watt, MIPS/Watt, GIPS, GOPS, IO bandwidth, on chip cache sizes, issue widths,…