= MONARCH =


Joel: This really could and should be better.

Morphable Networked Micro-Architecture (MONARCH) is a architecture can adopt different forms depending on their application.  It was developed by Raytheon Company under a DARPA program.  The MONARCH micro-architecture is unique in its ability to reconfigure itself to optimize processing on the fly. MONARCH provides exceptional compute capacity and highly flexible data bandwidth capability with beyond state-of-the-art power efficiency, and it's fully programmable. [Ref:  http://www.mil-embedded.com/news/db/?5784]

The system software provided for application development is RTEMS based.  Other references include.

 *  Programming Model and OS Support: http://www.crest.gatech.edu/trix/programming.html
 *  http://www.mil-embedded.com/columns/industry_analysis/2007/07/Dingee/
 *  http://www.ll.mit.edu/HPEC/agendas/proc04/powerpoints/Posters/Poster%20B/granacki_precis.ppt
 *  http://www.ll.mit.edu/HPEC/agendas/proc04/Poster%20B/granacki_precis.pdf