<s>
Ambric	B-Device
,	O
Inc	O
.	O
was	O
a	O
designer	O
of	O
computer	O
processors	O
that	O
developed	O
the	O
Ambric	B-Device
architecture	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
Am2045	O
Massively	B-General_Concept
Parallel	I-General_Concept
Processor	I-General_Concept
Array	I-General_Concept
(	O
MPPA	B-General_Concept
)	O
chips	O
were	O
primarily	O
used	O
in	O
high-performance	O
embedded	B-Architecture
systems	I-Architecture
such	O
as	O
medical	B-Application
imaging	I-Application
,	O
video	O
,	O
and	O
signal-processing	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ambric	B-Device
was	O
founded	O
in	O
2003	O
in	O
Beaverton	O
,	O
Oregon	O
by	O
Jay	O
Eisenlohr	O
and	O
Anthony	O
Mark	O
Jones	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Jones	O
was	O
also	O
the	O
founder	O
of	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
companies	O
prior	O
to	O
Ambric	B-Device
,	O
and	O
has	O
since	O
co-founded	O
with	O
technology	O
and	O
patent	O
expert	O
Dan	O
Buri	O
in	O
2019	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ambric	B-Device
developed	O
and	O
introduced	O
the	O
Am2045	O
and	O
its	O
software	O
tools	O
in	O
2007	O
,	O
but	O
fell	O
victim	O
to	O
the	O
financial	O
crisis	O
of	O
2007	O
–	O
2008	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ambric	B-Device
's	O
Am2045	O
and	O
tools	O
remained	O
available	O
through	O
Nethra	O
Imaging	O
,	O
Inc.	O
,	O
which	O
closed	O
in	O
2012	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ambric	B-Device
architecture	B-General_Concept
is	O
a	O
massively	O
parallel	O
distributed	B-Operating_System
memory	I-Operating_System
multiprocessor	B-Operating_System
,	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
Structural	O
Object	O
Programming	O
Model	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Each	O
processor	O
is	O
programmed	O
in	O
conventional	O
Java	B-Language
(	O
a	O
strict	O
subset	O
)	O
and/or	O
assembly	B-Language
code	I-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
hundreds	O
of	O
processors	O
on	O
the	O
chip	O
send	O
data	O
and	O
control	O
messages	O
to	O
one	O
another	O
through	O
an	O
interconnect	O
of	O
reconfigurable	B-Protocol
,	O
self-synchronizing	O
channels	O
,	O
which	O
provide	O
both	O
communication	O
and	O
synchronization	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
model	O
of	O
computation	O
is	O
very	O
similar	O
to	O
a	O
Kahn	B-Application
process	I-Application
network	I-Application
with	O
bounded	O
buffers	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Am2045	O
device	O
has	O
336	O
32-bit	O
RISC-DSP	O
fixed-point	O
processors	O
and	O
336	O
2-kibibyte	O
memories	O
,	O
which	O
run	O
at	O
up	O
to	O
300MHz	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
has	O
an	O
Eclipse-based	B-Application
integrated	B-Application
development	I-Application
environment	I-Application
including	O
editor	O
,	O
compiler	O
,	O
assemblers	B-Language
,	O
simulator	O
,	O
configuration	O
generator	O
,	O
source-code	O
debugger	B-Application
and	O
video/image	O
-processing	O
,	O
signal-processing	O
,	O
and	O
video-codec	O
libraries	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Ambric	B-Device
's	O
MPPA	B-General_Concept
devices	O
were	O
used	O
for	O
high-definition	O
,	O
2K	O
and	O
4K	O
video	O
compression	O
,	O
transcoding	B-Algorithm
and	O
analysis	O
,	O
image	O
recognition	O
,	O
medical	B-Application
imaging	I-Application
,	O
signal-processing	O
,	O
software	B-Architecture
defined	I-Architecture
radio	I-Architecture
and	O
other	O
compute-intensive	O
streaming	O
media	O
applications	O
,	O
which	O
otherwise	O
would	O
use	O
FPGA	B-Architecture
,	O
DSP	B-Architecture
and/or	O
ASIC	O
chips	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
company	O
claimed	O
advantages	O
such	O
as	O
higher	O
performance	O
and	O
energy	O
efficiency	O
,	O
scalability	B-Architecture
,	O
higher	O
productivity	O
due	O
to	O
software	B-General_Concept
programming	I-General_Concept
rather	O
than	O
hardware	B-General_Concept
design	I-General_Concept
,	O
and	O
off-the-shelf	O
availability	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Video	O
codec	O
libraries	O
were	O
available	O
for	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
professional	O
camera	O
and	O
video	O
editing	O
formats	O
such	O
as	O
DVCPRO	O
HD	O
,	O
VC-3	O
(	O
DNxHD	O
)	O
,	O
AVC-Intra	B-Application
and	O
others	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Other	O
MPPAs	O
include	O
picoChip	B-General_Concept
and	O
IntellaSys	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
UC	O
Davis	O
's	O
AsAP	B-General_Concept
research	O
chip	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Companies	O
that	O
offer	O
or	O
offered	O
products	O
classified	O
as	O
manycore	B-General_Concept
(	O
a	O
related	O
classification	O
)	O
devices	O
include	O
Aspex	O
Semiconductor	O
,	O
Cavium	O
,	O
ClearSpeed	B-General_Concept
,	O
Coherent	O
Logix	O
,	O
SPI	O
,	O
and	O
Tilera	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
more	O
established	O
processor	O
companies	O
,	O
Texas	O
Instruments	O
and	O
Freescale	O
,	O
offer	O
multicore	B-Architecture
products	O
,	O
but	O
with	O
a	O
lower	O
number	O
of	O
processors	O
(	O
typically	O
3-8	O
)	O
and	O
use	O
traditional	O
shared-memory	O
,	O
timing-sensitive	O
programming	O
models	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microprocessor	O
Report	O
gave	O
a	O
2006	O
MPR	O
Analysts	O
 '	O
Choice	O
Award	O
for	O
Innovation	O
for	O
the	O
Ambric-architecture	O
"	O
for	O
the	O
design	O
concept	O
and	O
architecture	B-General_Concept
of	O
its	O
massively	O
parallel	O
processor	O
,	O
the	O
Am2045	O
"	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2013	O
,	O
Ambric	B-Device
architecture	B-General_Concept
received	O
the	O
Top	O
20	O
award	O
from	O
the	O
IEEE	O
International	O
Symposium	O
on	O
Field-Programmable	O
Custom	O
Computing	O
Machines	O
,	O
recognizing	O
it	O
as	O
one	O
of	O
the	O
20	O
most	O
significant	O
publications	O
in	O
the	O
20-year	O
history	O
of	O
the	O
conference	O
.	O
</s>
