Remote and Harsh Environments

Electronic equipment running in remote environments needs to be reliable and power efficient. Often the situation makes replacement or servicing difficult or impossible, and electronic equipment is required to take its power from batteries or by utilising the natural sources of power available such as solar power.

ClearSpeed's IP and processor products are designed for reliability from the ground up, and exhibit world leading power efficiency.Our technology has been licensed to BAE Systems (US) for use in as the Next Generation DSP in demanding space applications.

Power Efficiency by design

ClearSpeed has achieved a power efficiency of 10 GFlops/Watt double precision floating point in silicon in its CSX700 product. Actual power consumption of devices may be traded against performance by reducing clock speed, making very low power consumptions possible. ClearSpeed's technology is fully scalable and configurable, allowing even higher levels of efficiency to be achieved by configuring a single precision or fixed point only device.

ClearSpeed is continuing development of the architecture, and current modeling suggests that a figure of 30Gops/W fixed or floating point is achievable with our architectures.