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Product category: Intellectual Property Cores
News Release from: Imagination Technologies | Subject: Meta 122
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 28 February 2005

IP core claims the lead in
multithreading

The Meta 122 IP core is designed for multifunction consumer entertainment products which must provide high performance, both in terms of processing and I/O.

The Meta 122 IP core is the latest version of the multi-million-shipping Meta processor family, targeted at multifunction consumer entertainment (CE) products which must provide high performance, both in terms of processing and I/O Traditional "single" processors spend a lot of time in stall cycles doing nothing - either waiting for data from memory or in the middle of a context switch

Even while the processor executes a useful instruction, the vast majority of the hardware goes unused.

Engineers have typically had three responses to this conundrum: to reduce the feature set, which reduces competitiveness; to use a faster processor, which increases cost, power consumption, heat dissipation and radio frequency interference; or to use multiple processors, which has a detrimental effect on cost, power consumption and development risk.

Meta is the first commercially available licensable IP core supporting hardware multithreading.