Flavors Technology Incorporated

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The illustration above depicts one PIM frame. As previously mentioned, each cell has guaranteed resources, and no one cell can effect another's' real-time behavior.

Each PIM processing board has one physical processor that is time-sliced into individual virtual processors. The number of virtual processors is determined according to the frame rate determined by the user. There is a rough inverse relationship between the number of processors and the frame rate of the PIM.

It is possible to configure a single board PIM in which the Boss board serves as both system controller and processor board. As is true in multiple board systems, adding additional hardware in the form of PUP (PIM User Processors) or I/O boards does not effect proven, running code.