日本大廠富士通(Fujitsu)旗下的研究部門 Fujitsu Laboratories ，日前于美國(guó)加州舉行的年度北美技術(shù)論壇上展示了一系列最新研發(fā)成果，包括世界級(jí)的超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī)、智能手機(jī)、甚至還有機(jī)器小熊。 富士通擁有1,300名研發(fā)人員規(guī)模的團(tuán)隊(duì)，專注于“以人為中心的智能社群(human-centric intelligent society)”的廣泛研發(fā)題材，以支持母公司涵蓋手機(jī)、服務(wù)器、半導(dǎo)體組件的各種產(chǎn)品線。該研發(fā)團(tuán)隊(duì)最近的工作還包括開發(fā)云端服務(wù)相關(guān)應(yīng)用程序，以及可為系統(tǒng)產(chǎn)品提供附加價(jià)值的社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)。

Fujitsu Laboratories 總經(jīng)理 Tatsuo Tomita

Fujitsu Laboratories總經(jīng)理Tatsuo Tomita表示：“軟件很重要，而且其重要性在未來將更顯著，需要與硬件相互平衡搭配?！备皇客ㄔ谡搲F(xiàn)場(chǎng)展示了自家開發(fā)的10 petaflops 超級(jí)計(jì)算機(jī) K Computer 主機(jī)板，該套系統(tǒng)是以一種設(shè)計(jì)新穎的“豆腐”互連芯片，將超過6萬8,000個(gè)Sparc架構(gòu)CPU連結(jié)起來。 開發(fā)“豆腐”的富士通工程師Yuichiro Ajima表示，該種互連芯片吞吐量可達(dá)20 Gbytes/second ，能在僅約1微秒(microsecond)的時(shí)間直接連結(jié)距離最近的兩顆CPU，不需要透過系統(tǒng)的內(nèi)存。 而就像是主機(jī)板上的處理器，尺寸18x18mm的“豆腐”是以水冷方式將溫度維持在攝氏35度以下，以維持其可靠性；Ajima從2006年開始進(jìn)行“豆腐”的研發(fā)，目前正著手進(jìn)行開發(fā)“豆腐II”，但他無法透露預(yù)定于2014年完成的新組件之相關(guān)性能細(xì)節(jié)。

Yuichiro Ajima 與內(nèi)含“豆腐”互連芯片的K Computer主機(jī)板mJsesmc

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{pagination} 支持40G以太網(wǎng)絡(luò)的高速ADC 富士通也展示了一款性能為56 GSamples/second 的8位模擬數(shù)字轉(zhuǎn)換器(ADC)， 該款65納米制程芯片可做為接收來自100G光學(xué)傳輸網(wǎng)絡(luò)訊號(hào)的前端組件，并將接受到的訊號(hào)饋入SerDes芯片與DSP進(jìn)行處理。該公司也展示了一款 40納米版本的 65 GSamples/s ADC，研究人員目前正在研發(fā)一款性能號(hào)稱可達(dá)到80 GSamples/s的28納米版本組件。

富士通展示高速ADCmJsesmc

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{pagination} 可應(yīng)用于360度車用攝影機(jī)的GPU 富士通的繪圖處理技術(shù)實(shí)力也是眾所周知，該公司在現(xiàn)場(chǎng)展示了一種裝設(shè)于汽車上、能以4支攝影機(jī)提供駕駛?cè)?60度視野的新應(yīng)用；該系統(tǒng)采用富士通最新的 ARM Cortex A9核心GPU，支持該公司開發(fā)的360度照片拼接(photo-stitching)算法。據(jù)了解，該技術(shù)已經(jīng)獲得試用日本車廠豐田(Toyota) 電動(dòng)車Prius的后裝市場(chǎng)附加配備采用，此外一家日本巴士業(yè)者也正在評(píng)估將這種技術(shù)應(yīng)用于車隊(duì)。

可應(yīng)用于360度車用攝影機(jī)的GPU mJsesmc

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{pagination} 適用可攜式裝置的小型掌紋辨識(shí)模塊 在數(shù)年前，富士通曾領(lǐng)先推出掌紋辨識(shí)方案，利用其紅外線成像技術(shù)來讀取手掌微血管，以做為獨(dú)特的身分辨識(shí)方法；現(xiàn)在該公司將上述技術(shù)做為指紋辨識(shí)方案的附加 安全功能。下圖左的USB模塊就是可提供辨識(shí)方案的組件，尺寸適合筆記本電腦使用；富士通除了展示一款內(nèi)建該模塊的筆記本電腦，并透露未來將有尺寸更小、 適合智能手機(jī)或平板裝置應(yīng)用的版本問世。

適用可攜式裝置的小型掌紋辨識(shí)模塊 mJsesmc

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{pagination} 防水手機(jī)與超薄平板裝置 在 2012年的CES展上，有一家公司設(shè)計(jì)了能防水的手機(jī)殼，頗受矚目；富士通也有這類的技術(shù)，并且曾與日本電信業(yè)者DoCoMo合作推出防水智能手機(jī)。 根據(jù)Fujitsu Laboratories美國(guó)辦公室總監(jiān)Motoya Suzuki表示，該公司已經(jīng)開發(fā)出防水手機(jī)殼的模型，一旦有新型智能手機(jī)設(shè)計(jì)出爐，就能更容易地修改現(xiàn)有模型、為新型手機(jī)添加防水功能；最新的防水機(jī) 殼功能包括更容易開啟耳機(jī)插孔或是其它連接埠的防水封條。

富士通的手機(jī)防水技術(shù)mJsesmc

此外富士通新開發(fā)的Honeycomb 版本Android平板裝置，也采用了防水技術(shù)；目前該裝置已經(jīng)在日本透過DoCoMo開賣，價(jià)格約600美元。該款平板裝置不僅防水，機(jī)殼采用超薄與輕量化設(shè)計(jì)，并配備高功率揚(yáng)聲器。

富士通超薄平板裝置mJsesmc

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能當(dāng)銀發(fā)族寵物的機(jī)器小熊mJsesmc

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{pagination} Gallery: Fujitsu from supers to teddy bears Rick Merritt SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Fujitsu’s corporate labs demoed a sampler of its latest work in everything from world-class supercomputers to smartphones—and even a robotic teddy bear—at an annual North America forum here. The 1,300 person R&D group takes a broad focus on what it calls the “human-centric intelligent society” to cover the far-flung markets of its corporate parent which sells everything from servers to cellphones and semiconductors. These days the work includes developing applications in cloud services and social networking that add value to its systems. “Software is important and will be more important in the future, but it’s a balance in combination with the hardware,” said Tatsuo Tomita, president of Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. in an interview. Front and center on the demo floor was a motherboard (below) from the K Computer developed by Fujitsu. It is currently rated the world’s most powerful system at more than 10 petaflops, thanks in large part to a novel interconnect design that links together more than 68,000 Sparc-based CPUs from Fujitsu. The so-called Tofu interconnect has a total throughput of about 20 Gbytes/second. It can directly link the nearest two CPUs in as little as a microsecond because it does not need to go through system memory, said Yuichiro Ajima, the Fujitsu engineer who developed the chip. Like the processors on the motherboard, the 18x18mm Tofu chip (left) is water cooled to a temperate 35 degrees C or lower to ensure reliability. Ajima started work on the Tofu design in 2006 and is already embarked on a follow on, called Tofu II. He is not allowed to share the performance target for the system it is expected to power in 2014. Yuichiro Ajima with the Tofu-powered K Computer motherboard. Fast ADC drives to 40G Ethernet Fujitsu demoed a 56 GSamples/second 8-bit analog-digital converter at the forum. The 65 nm chip is geared for work as a front-end block receiving optical signals from 100G optical transport networks and other links and feeding them to a serdes and DSP for processing. The company is also sampling a 40 nm version that can take in 65 GSamples/s. In the lab, engineers are working on a 28 nm version that will hit 80 GSamples/s. GPU powers 360-degree car camera Fujitsu is also known for its graphics processing technology, demonstrated here in a new application for giving a driver a 360-degree view from four cameras mounted on a car. The demo uses Fujitsu’s latest GPU (left) which includes an ARM Cortex A9 core and a few special gates for handling the company‘s 360-degree photo-stitching algorithms. The technology is already available in Japan as an after-market add-on for the Toyota Prius. A Japanese bus company is also evaluating the technology for use in its fleet. Palm recognition comes to notebook Fujitsu pioneered the field of palm recognition several years ago, applying its infrared imaging technology to reading the pattern of veins in a palm as a unique way to identify someone. The company sees it as an additional security factor that can be added to fingerprint recognition. The latest twist is a USB module (left) that handles the recognition and is now small enough to fit into a notebook computer. Fujitsu is already showing one of its notebooks with the module built in and promising even smaller versions of the module that could someday appear in its smartphones and tablets. Fish phones and thin tablets One of the hot stories out of CES this year was about a company that designed a novel case to make mobile devices waterproof. Fujitsu has had such technology for some time in its smartphones sold through the DoCoMo network in Japan, said Motoya Suzuki, a director in the Sunnyvale, Calif., office of the labs. Indeed, Fujitsu has created models and simulations of its waterproof cases so that when it designs new smartphones they can more easily add the waterproof feature by tweaking the existing models. The latest innovation includes watertight seals easily opened to reveal headphone jacks and other ports. Fujitsu’s new Honeycomb Android tablet (below) also uses the waterproof technology. Available only through DoCoMo’s Japan network for the equivalent of about US$600, the system sports a thin and light case with relatively high-powered speakers for a tablet. Look out Aibo, here comes Teddy Sony’s pet robotic dog Aibo has had its 20 minutes of fame. Now it’s time for Fujitsu’s teddy bear. It’s just a prototype, say designers who are testing it with senior citizens in Japan. The bear has a camera with face recognition technology embedded in its nose and a dozen touch sensors throughout its body as well as several motors powering as many as 300 different behaviors. The bear is designed to watch seniors and interact with them, drawing them out of isolation and potentially providing warnings if something is wrong with the senior. The robotic bear is a USB peripheral that plugs into a PC.