MPOC: A Chip Multiprocessor for Embedded Systems

CMP, chip multiprocessor, embedded processor, embedded DRAM, CPACM MPOC was an ambitious microprocessor project undertaken at Hewlett Packard's Palo Alto Research Lab from about 1998 until early in the year 2001. MPOC was designed to be a single-chip community of identical high-speed RISC processors surrounding a large common storage area. Each processor would have its own clock, cache and program counter. Each processor was to be small and simple, such that it would run very fast using minimal power requirements.