Hardware Acceleration

Hardware Acceleration Examples

Deploying heterogeneous systems with Mercury’s hardware accelerators and optimized software can provide unprecedented performance improvements for your data-intensive applications.

	Achieving Mission-Critical Breakthrough Performance on Cell-Based EDA Platform Mentor Graphics was pressed to deliver a solution within a 7-month timeframe that would enable computational lithography for next-generation 45-nm processor chips. Our Cell-based co-processor acceleration system significantly improved the performance of their industry-leading OPC product. View Customer Reference Story PDF
	Mercury Solution Provides TFLOPS of Processing to Weed Out Semiconductor Flaws Mercury’s customer was facing a massive compute challenge, because the density and complexity of new-generation reticles created data volumes that their inspection systems could not handle. We designed an entirely new backend image processing system for their reticle inspection solution. View Customer Reference Story PDF
	Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) Medical researchers were pioneering a new tool for detecting and diagnosising breast cancer. Mercury engineers ported their algorithms to graphics processing units (GPUs), which reduced the production of 3D images from five hours to less than five minutes.. View Application Spotlight PDF
	Mercury Computer Systems and IPV Collaborate to Bring the Power of the Cell BE Processor to the Professional Video Market Mercury and IPV have teamed up to bring the massive computing power of the Cell BE processor to the professional video market. Mercury’s software tools, libraries, and applications will support implementation of predictive block-based video codecs. View Application Spotlight PDF
	5x Belt Speedup for Baggage Scanning Equipment For a leading baggage scanning manufacturer, we evaluated multiple hardware acceleration technologies, including FPGAs and GPUs, before recommending a solution using technology based on the Cell Broadband Engine™ (BE) processor. The resulting integrated solution of hardware, software, and professional services enabled our customer to achieve a 5x belt speed-up and to leap ahead of the competition.