New Delhi, September 24 (APAC Media): Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi have developed India’s first working and demonstrable indigenously designed micro Graphics Processing Unit (GPU).
This marks a significant step towards reducing the country’s dependence on imported graphics processors.
Micro-GPU Targets Embedded Applications
The micro-GPU architecture is aimed at enabling indigenous graphics and display-processing systems for embedded applications.
The team demonstrated programmable graphics rendering through a custom floating-point GPU engine designed entirely in Register Transfer Language (RTL). The engine has been mapped onto a Spartan-7 Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) platform.
Researchers Eye 816-Core GPU Architecture
Building on the prototype, researchers are exploring a roadmap towards an 816-core vector-style graphics processor architecture, supported by an optimised compiler and graphics software toolchain.
The team also plans to eventually migrate the technology to a proof-of-concept implementation using a 65-nanometre ASIC process node.
Professor Kaushik Saha of IIT Delhi said the project also gives students an opportunity to integrate arithmetic hardware, programmable architectures, compilers, and embedded-system design within a unified framework.
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