Nu Horizons Announces First Modular Development Solution For Design Engineers Featuring Xilinx FPGAs
MELVILLE, NY and SAN JOSE, CA--(INTERNET WIRE)--Feb 4, 2002 -- Nu Horizons Electronics Corp. (NASDAQ:NUHC), today announced the immediate availability
of the Engineering Solutions Platform, a high-end modular
development solution based on Xilinx(R) Virtex(R)-II FPGAs,
designed to shorten product development times, lower costs
and improve product quality. Unlike traditional stand alone
board solutions, the new Platform consists of a highly functional
main board that has the ability to add up to two additional
application specific development cards, providing design
engineers with a modular hardware platform to develop, prototype,
verify and test designs before they are finalized.
"The Nu Horizon's Engineering Solutions Platform gives us
a tremendous and flexible solution for expediting designs
and time to market," said Rick Folea, manager, engineering
for Elastic Networks, Inc. "The well thought out main board/development
card design allows us to focus on our design prototyping
and not on re-creating entire systems for each new design.
Now we can just design a small daughter card with a Xilinx
FPGA of our choice and everything else is taken care of.
We can even compare designs side by side or test the inter-relationship
of two independent designs in the same system since there
are two slots for development cards."
"This is a totally new approach to system design development,"
said Arthur Nadata, CEO of Nu Horizons. "This evaluation
tool is different in that we offer a modular solution of
development boards -- everybody else requires you to buy
a new board for each device. The approach taken by our competitors
not only costs more money, but also requires a new learning
curve for each new stand-alone board. The Engineering Solution
Platform is a first for Nu Horizons," added Nadata, "and
a first for the industry. It puts us in a leadership position
for engineering solutions -- and adds another component
to Nu Horizons being a total solutions provider."
"System architects and developers are looking for tools
to help them optimize their designs for cost and performance.
With the Nu Horizons Engineering Solutions Platform, multiple
chip designs & interoperability can now be done simultaneously,"
said Sandeep Vij, vice president of worldwide marketing
at Xilinx. "This modular platform is an industry first,
and represents yet another milestone in our relationship
with Nu Horizons."
Some of the features of the main Engineering Solutions Platform
board include: Xilinx CoolRunner(R) CPLD; high density board-to-board
connectors for two expansion cards; dual seven segment LCD
display; RS232 level shifter for UART core instantiation;
JTAG configuration headers; two 44 pin PLCC sockets for
Xilinx configuration PROM's; 50 test points; power management;
reset controller; and status LEDs.
Targeted at high-end data communications, networking, wireless
base-stations, mass storage, video servers, signal processing
and Internet infrastructure products, the first available
development card focuses on one million gate Xilinx Virtex-II
FPGAs. Some of the many features implemented on the Virtex-II
FPGA board include: support of Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor
core; logic resources; select RAM memory; 16 channels of
LVDS interface supporting 840Mb/s; multiprotocol serial
clock/data transceivers with auto cable termination; 16
Megabits of Synchronous NBT SRAM; programmable clock from
1 MHz to 200 MHz; 6 user clock inputs; high speed 133bit
@ 200 MHz back plane; and Digitally Controlled Impedance.
Future development cards will include an HTML server-white
appliance controller and a high-speed Analog Front End with
an Ethernet I/F.
Additional information on Nu Horizons' Engineering Solutions
Platform development boards, including board schematics
and user manual can be found on the Nu Horizons web site
at www.nuhorizons.com.
About Nu Horizons Electronics Corp.
Nu Horizons is a leading distributor of high technology
active components, including analog, communications, discretes,
optical, logic & peripherals, memory, microcontrollers,
specialty products and sub-system products to a wide variety
of commercial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) throughout
North America. With sales facilities in twenty-six locations,
Nu Horizons partners with a limited number of the best-in-class
suppliers to provide in-depth product and solutions expertise
to its customers. Information on Nu Horizons and its services
is available at www.nuhorizons.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the leading supplier of complete programmable
logic solutions, including advanced integrated circuits,
software design tools, predefined system functions delivered
as cores, and unparalleled field engineering support. Founded
in 1984 and headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Xilinx invented
the field programmable gate array (FPGA) and fulfills more
than half of the world demand for these devices today. Xilinx
solutions enable customers to reduce significantly the time
required to develop products for the computer, peripheral,
telecommunications, networking, industrial control, instrumentation,
aerospace, defense, and low-power portable and consumer
markets. For more information, visit the Xilinx web site
at www.xilinx.com.
