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Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation The HSA Foundation A NonProfit Foundation Heterogeneous System Architecture HSA Foundation is a notforprofit industry standards body focused on making it dramatically easier to program heterogeneous computing devices. The consortium comprises various semiconductor companies tools providers software vendors IP providers and academic institutions that develops royaltyfree standards and opensource software. Reducing Heterogeneous System Complexity HSA Foundation members are building a heterogeneous compute software ecosystem that abstracts away the complexities of heterogeneous systems by specifying runtime and system architecture APIs that run on top of cache coherent shared virtual memory hardware. This architected system removes the need for time consuming operating system calls and runs at user level.