Hello everyone,
A software engineer coworker of mine attended the Embedded Systems Show in San Jose last week and stopped by Log Point's booth. He said he met both Lester Pickett (CTO) and Dr. Sam Shanks (CEO) and talked to them briefly about their software and hardware technologies.
He said the technology looked quite impressive and that Pickett and Shanks were excited about the latest hardware releases. They briefly described the concepts behind the technology, however were somewhat guarded about going into specifics due to the confidential nature of their current work.
They did not have any samples or demonstrations, however they did have literature, of which I have a copy, regarding their software and hardware products.
The main body of the literature is regarding Log Point's SuperSpeed software products and the theory of operation (basically a recap of their web page). A new insert was added, however, regarding the recent hardware designs. Here's what is says:
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Log Point's Latest Hardware Design Offerings
Provide Blinding Speed While Slashing Silicon Area and Power Consumption
IEEE 754 Floating-Point Hardware Enhancements:
Update your embedded or DSP architecture! Major acceleration of 5-20x for your slower operations and functions, e.g., division, square root, and reciprocal square root. Log Point's SuperSpeed synthesizable designs offer high cycle rate, low latency, and low area.
Exponential Floating-Point Hardware Systems:
Exponential floating-point (efp) processors perform a new kind of floating point computation in embedded and DSP applications. This efp computation offers numerical equivalence to IEEE 754 floating point computation, but with far greater efficiency for multiplication, division, square root, logarithms, exponentials and many other functions. Strongly competitive with IEEE 754 designs in linear applications, Log Point's efp processors offer greatly accelerated throughput in the more nonlinear applications such as graphics and embedded control. Here, also, Log Point's SuperSpeed synthesizable designs offer high cycle rate, low latency, and low area.
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It appears Log Point is well on the road to providing the hardware designs they have been promising...now let's see if the big fish bite. I'm also looking forward to hearing any news regarding financial reports, SEC filings, contracts, etc.
GO LGPT!!
E Wilson |
