HSA Foundation officially released HSA 1.0 technical standards

Absrtact: AMD has put forward the concept of AMD Fusion many years ago, advocating the integration of CPU and GPU, improve the communication efficiency between the two cores, APU is the product of this concept. Then Fusion evolved to become famous as HSA (heterogeneous System architecture, heterogeneous

AMD has put forward the concept of "AMD Fusion" many years ago, advocating the integration of CPU and GPU, improve the communication efficiency between the two cores, APU is the product of this concept.

Then "Fusion" evolved to become famous as HSA (heterogeneous System architecture, heterogeneous Computing Systems Architecture) technical standards, while absorbing ARM, imagination, MTK, Qualcomm, Samsung, TI and other x86-camp Chip partners.

Today, the HSA Foundation officially publishes the HSA 1.0 technical standards, which include:

HSA 1.0 Hardware Standard Definition HSA Program example and Compilation tool HSA running environment

The standard includes ARM, x86 and MIPS and many other architecture processors. The HSA Foundation is still conducting standard tests and the first test kits will be ready in a few months. The HSA 1.0 standard is expected to be compatible with the mainstream into languages such as C + +, OpenMP, Python, etc.

So far, HSA seems to be in a state dominated by AMD. According to the HSA Foundation chairman Phil Rogers described, the market Kaveri APU series of products using the HSA 1.0 trial standards, and the subsequent Carrizo will be in the relevant tools of maturity under the premise of full use of the HSA 1.0 final standards. The HSA 1.0 final standard will integrate the APARAPI and Project Sumatra introduced at the AMD Kaveri conference last year.

Previously, MTK announced that the use of AMD GPU in its high-end chips, and Intel's abandonment of imagination equity may be related to heterogeneous computing system standards and alliances.