Tachyum Completes Testing of Debugger on its Prodigy FPGA Prototype
April 17 2024 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Tachyum® today announced that it has completed testing of
full-fledged hardware debugging features of the FPGA prototype of
its Prodigy® Universal Processor. This latest capability has
undergone testing with GNU Debugger (gdb), a widely used Linux tool
for debugging software, to ensure successful operations and is a
key component of Prodigy’s continued march towards production.
As part of the hardware development process, debuggers are used
to search for and identify components that are not operating
correctly or are incorrectly configured. The Prodigy platform
supports four debug registers for hardware breakpoints and four
registers for hardware watchpoints for memory operations. Four
hardware PC breakpoints can even debug ROM code where software
breakpoints are unable to be used.
“Having hardware debugging features incorporated into the
Prodigy FPGA allows our customers to debug directly on the
prototype itself instead of through less effective software
processes,” said Dr. Radoslav Danilak, founder and CEO of Tachyum.
“Previous debugging, which ran on Prodigy software c-model, is now
running on FPGA and ensures that hardware issues can be resolved
prior to tape-out. This is the latest feature we’ve incorporated
into the Prodigy FPGA tests to ensure our customers have all the
necessary tools and capabilities implemented into our Universal
Processor on Day 1 of launch.”
As a Universal Processor offering industry-leading performance
for all workloads, Prodigy-powered data center servers can
seamlessly and dynamically switch between computational domains
(such as AI/ML, HPC, and cloud) with a single homogeneous
architecture. By eliminating the need for expensive dedicated AI
hardware and dramatically increasing server utilization, Prodigy
reduces CAPEX and OPEX significantly while delivering unprecedented
data center performance, power, and economics. Prodigy integrates
192 high-performance custom-designed 64-bit compute cores, to
deliver up to 4.5x the performance of the highest-performing x86
processors for cloud workloads, up to 3x that of the highest
performing GPU for HPC, and 6x for AI applications.
A video demonstration of Prodigy’s FPGA hardware debugger using
hardware debug registers showcased with gdb is available for
viewing at https://youtu.be/uZ_lbOR1I0Q.
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About Tachyum
Tachyum is transforming the economics of AI, HPC, public and
private cloud workloads with Prodigy, the world’s first Universal
Processor. Prodigy unifies the functionality of a CPU, a GPU, and a
TPU in a single processor to deliver industry-leading performance,
cost and power efficiency for both specialty and general-purpose
computing. As global data center emissions continue to contribute
to a changing climate, with projections of their consuming 10
percent of the world’s electricity by 2030, the ultra-low power
Prodigy is positioned to help balance the world’s appetite for
computing at a lower environmental cost. Tachyum recently received
a major purchase order from a US company to build a large-scale
system that can deliver more than 50 exaflops performance, which
will exponentially exceed the computational capabilities of the
fastest inference or generative AI supercomputers available
anywhere in the world today. When complete in 2025, the
Prodigy-powered system will deliver a 25x multiplier vs. the
world’s fastest conventional supercomputer – built just this year –
and will achieve AI capabilities 25,000x larger than models for
ChatGPT4. Tachyum has offices in the United States and Slovakia.
For more information, visit https://www.tachyum.com/.
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