NeuroMatrix explained

NeuroMatrix is a digital signal processor (DSP) series developed by NTC Module. The DSP has a VLIW/SIMD architecture. It consists of a 32-bit RISC core and a 64-bit vector co-processor. The vector co-processor supports vector operations with elements of variable bit length (US Pat. 6539368 B1) and is optimized to support the implementation of artificial neural networks. From this derives the name NeuroMatrix Core (NMC). Newer devices contain multiple DSP cores and additional ARM or PowerPC 470 cores.

Overview

Designation		DSP cores	Microprocessor cores	Production start (year)	Process (nm)	Clock rate (MHz)	Remarks
Russian	English
L1879VM1	nm6403	1× NMC	—	1999	500	40
1879VM2	nm6404	1× NMC2	—	2005	250	80
1879VM3	DSM	?	—	2002 ?	250	150
1879VM4	nm6405	1× NMC3	—	2009	?	150
1879VM5Ya	nm6406	1× NMC3	—	2013	90	320
1879VM6Ya	nm6407	2× NMC4	—	2016	65	500
1879VM8Ya	nm6408	16× NMC4	5× ARM Cortex-A5	2019	28	800
1879VYa1Ya		2× NMC3	1× ARM1176JZF-S	2013	90	328
K1879KhB1Ya		1× NMC3	1× ARM1176JZF-S	2011	90	324
1879KhK1Ya		2× NMC3	1× ARM1176JZF-S	2010	90	81.92
K1888VS018		2× NMC3	1× ARM1176JZF-S	2016	65	320
1888VS048			1× ARM Cortex-A5	2019 ?	28	600
1888VS058		2× NMC3	1x ARM Cortex-A5	2020 ?	?	512
1888TKh018		4× NMC3	2× PowerPC 470	2019	28	400
1888VM018			PowerPC 470	2020 ?	?	200	rad-hard

Details

L1879VM1

• Russian: Л1879ВМ1
• start of development in 1996, start of production in 1999 at Samsung

1879VM2

• Russian: 1879ВМ2
• manufactured at Fujitsu

1879VM3

• Russian: 1879ВМ3
• manufactured at Fujitsu

1879VM5Ya

• Russian: 1879ВМ5Я
• manufactured at Fujitsu Japan

1879VM6Ya

• Russian: 1879ВМ6Я
• manufactured at GlobalFoundries Malaysia

1879VM8Ya

• Russian: 1879ВМ8Я
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) containing 4 computing clusters, each consisting of one ARM Cortex-A5 core and four NMC4 DSP cores, plus one stand-alone ARM Cortex-A5 core
• manufactured at TSMC ?

1879VYa1Ya

• Russian: 1879ВЯ1Я
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for software-defined radios, including four 12-bit analog-to-digital converters with 82MSamples/s and hardware blocks implementing a digital direct-conversion receiver

K1879KhB1Ya

• Russian: К1879ХБ1Я, also romanized as K1879XB1Ya
• manufactured at Fujitsu
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for set-top boxes where the NMC core is used as an audio processor

1879KhK1Ya

• Russian: 1879ХК1Я, also romanized as 1879XK1Ya
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for software-defined radios, including four 12-bit analog-to-digital converters with 85MSamples/s and hardware blocks implementing a digital direct-conversion receiver

K1888VS018

• Russian: К1888ВС018
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for software-defined radios, including four 10-bit analog-to-digital converters with 90MSamples/s, as well as CAN bus, I²C, SPI, Ethernet

1888VS048

• Russian: К1888ВС048
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for connecting a PCI Express 2.0 host interface to 4x Gigabit Ethernet (with RFC 4175 support), ARINC 429, as well as CAN bus, I²C, SPI

1888VS058

• Russian: К1888ВС058
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for radar systems with dedicated interfaces for high-speed analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters

1888TKh018

• Russian: 1888ТХ018
• system-on-a-chip (SoC) for aircraft onboard video and multimedia processing systems, including ARINC 818 and SpaceWire interfaces as well as hardware encoder and decoder for H.264 video

1888VM018

• Russian: 1888ВМ018
• rad-hard system-on-a-chip (SoC) including SpaceWire, Ethernet, SPI, SDIO interfaces

External links

• NTC Module products