Bristol-based Inmos Ltd, a member of the SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Group has an addition to the IQ Systems range of Transputer Modules, also known as Trams, for Transputer and parallel processing: the size 4 standard TRAM B420 VecTRAM combines the IMS T800 Transputer and its scalar processing and communications abilities and Zoran ZR34325, an IEEE 32-bit floating point vector and signal processor aimed at many single processor systems and numerical applications; software libraries with a range of vector and signal processing functions enable user programs written in high level language and running on the Transputer to call vector routines which are excecuted on the co-processor; price for the board is $5,800, including the software.
