Smart Grant Is A Huge Vote Of Support For Blueshift Memorys Cambridge Architecture

Posted By: mike.scialom@iliffemedia.co.uk

Blueshift Memory, an innovator of new high-speed computing architectures, has announced that it has been shortlisted for one of Innovate UK's prestigious Intellectual Grants in early 2022.

Peter Marasson, Founder and CEO of Blueshift Memory. Photo by Keith Heppel

The highly competitive £25m Smart Fund is helping a group of UK SMEs rapidly bring to market the best innovative ideas that must be truly new, innovative and disruptive in their field, and Blueshi's innovative memory architecture.

At the heart of Blueshift Memory technology is the Cambridge architecture, a next-generation stored-program machine technology designed to replace the modified Harvard architecture and overcome the traditional limits of von Neumann congestion.

This bottleneck occurs in the communication between the host and the memory. Programmers care about data structures and write code that understands those structures. This understanding is lost when the code is compiled into assembly. The CPU randomly calculates addresses and indices, and each memory access is discrete.

This approach consumes energy and is inefficient. Bringing back this understanding of data structure, Cambridge Architecture optimizes memory architecture to handle large data sets and time-critical data more efficiently, delivering up to 1000 times faster memory access for specific applications with heavy data usage. These include high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) machine vision, 5G edge connectivity, and the Internet of Things (IoT).

Blueshift Memory Expands Machine Vision Capabilities

The 13-month Blueshift Memory Smart Grants project is titled "Exploring Next-Generation Memory Architecture Applications in Machine Vision Solutions for IoT Devices." Its objective is to develop a state-of-the-art artificial vision (CV) application in peripherals for the Internet of Things.

CV uses artificial intelligence to enable a computer to analyze and interpret digital image content in a human-like manner and initiate actionable responses based on the results. This ability to "see" computers is critical to solving a wide range of real-world problems in areas such as robotics, Industry 4.0, smart cities, and autonomous vehicles.

"By dramatically increasing the speed of memory access, our compact CV AI module will open up use cases such as real-time embedded scenario analysis in downstream cameras," said Peter Morson, founder and CEO of Blueshift Memory. "It will also help us demonstrate the potential benefits of the Cambridge IP architecture for larger system crystal designs for applications such as high-frequency transactions and in-memory databases."

"For Blueshift Memory, receiving a Smart Grant for this work is a great achievement, as it is a very competitive selection process. Our project is one of 71 out of 1,072 applications that have been successfully funded at this stage," he added. .

The Cambridge architecture will be featured in the final design of the user-programmable valve array (FPGA) being developed as part of the Smart Grant project.