On April 22 Maksim Krivov within the scientific conference “Lomonosov readings” has delivered the presentation “Operation implementation on B+- trees for massively parallel MALT-D processor”.
On April 17 Sergey Elizarov, the MALT project leader, has delivered the presentation within the investment session organized by the Consortium of Microelectronics Design Centers at ExpoElektronica-2019 exhibition.
On March 13 Sergey Elizarov, the MALT project leader, has delivered MALT architecture presentation for Russian design centers’ representatives. The seminar has taken place at the Angstrem-T factory area.
On January 23, the physical faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University along with Mentor, a Siemens Business company has held a seminar on the topic of “VLSI design by Mentor CAD facilities”. Sergey Elizarov, the MALT project leader, has made a welcoming speech.
On November 28, 2018 we’ve taken part in the event organized by the Consortium of Design Centers of Russian Federation microelectronic industry. Within the event there has been arranged a strategy play on the theme of “Critical information infrastructure as a new market for Russian high-tech complex”.
The development of the second-generation MALT-C (working name: 21Mb480PLVDDR) behavior model has been completed, the processor has been successfully synthesized, using 28 nm TSMC technology.
On November 20 Sergey Elizarov, the MALT project leader, has taken part in a working meeting for leading microelectronic design centers and factories of Russia.
The MALT project has participated in international exhibition “Electronica-2018” that took place in Munich (Germany) from 13 to 16 November 2018. “Electronica-2018” has gathered manufacturers, designers, distributors and customers from various countries at one place and has been recognized as the world’s largest event in the field of electronic components, systems and electronics industry applications.
From 13 to 16 November 2018 MALT project will participate in international exhibition of electronic components, systems and electronics applications “Electronica-2018” that will take place in Munich (Germany).
At the beginning of October 2018, an international forum “Microelectronica 2018” has taken place in Alushta (Crimea). We’ve taken an active part at the meeting, Sergey Elizarov, the MALT project leader, has made a presentation on the topic “Multicore computing system testing based on RSA algorithm ideas”.
SDK v1.5 released
MALT architecture was presented on the conference in Higher School of Economics
MALT architecture was presented on the conference in Higher School of Economics
Software development kit 1.4 for MALT environment contains a great number of modifications and improvements added to simplify developer’s work with the system.
The 21th International exhibition of electronic components, modules and parts ‘Expoelectronica’ was held at Crocus Expo (Moscow) from 17 to 19 April 2018 simultaneously with the 16th International exhibition of Technology, equipment and materials for manufacturing devices of electronics and electrotechnical industries ‘ElectronTechExpo’.
OpenCL support has been added to MALT software development kit v1.3, right now it's in test mode. Coprocessor software, required by MALT-C processor family, is a separate software module now and may be installed over MALT basic software development kit, that supports general-purpose processor cores. In the current version of the kit demo examples are separated from test scripts and located in ‘../src/sw/examples’ folder. ‘Malt_start_thr’ function, enabling to start threads with parameter transfer on slave-cores, has been implemented in Libmalt library. The support for emulated processor type selection has been added to the make scripts. When ‘MALT_SIMD=...’ variable is set, MALTemu emulator loads the corresponding dynamic library.
MALTsystem project is to be presented at “ExpoElectronica 2018” within the stand organized by our partner LLC “CEP Lomonosov Moscow State University”. We invite you to visit D207 stand. “ExpoElecrtronica” is one of the most popular exhibitions in Russia in the field of electronic components, modules and parts.
The build program support for MALT-C 9Mb96G test chip has been added to current debugging set. Declare ‘TASIC=1’ environment variable during installation to enable compatibility mode. ‘Rm_mod’ and ‘locked’ parameters have been added to Maltemu 1.2 in ‘WriteFill’, ‘ReadModify’ functions. The support for operations with variable-length interconnect buffer has been added. Procedures of calculating the maximum allowed parallelism during required package installation have been implemented in Linux OS and FreeBSD. ‘–Hw-trace’ option, enabling to monitor function calls, has been added to MALTCC frontend.
Our article about full unit operation and technical limitations in blockchain systems, written within the research concerning our processor applicability in the field of cryptocurrency, has been published on habrahabr.ru. The article is available here.
The installer is modular now! Programmer tools 'malt-tool' and 'malt_sw' system are downloaded individually. Installation directory may be changed by ‘MALT_HOME’ environment variable. By default, ‘malt-tools’ is installed to ‘/opt/MALT’ directory, ‘malt_sw’ - to ‘$HOME/MALT’. GNU development tools have been upgraded to latest versions, including gcc - up to 7.2.0 version. Manycore processor support has been added to MALTemu emulator. Thus, the performance of the emulator is almost in proportion to the number of processor cores per host system. The support for any number of arbitrary size {scalar|array} arguments has been added to MALTCC for both SIMD and slave functions.