Celoxica Introduces High-Performance Evaluation Boards; RC300 and RC2000Pro Offer High Performance and Flexibility for Designers of Image Processing and Data Streaming Applications
ABINGDON, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 9, 2004—
Celoxica Limited today announced the availability of two
new FPGA-based evaluation and prototyping boards - the RC300 and
RC2000Pro. Both of these boards provide high performance FPGAs coupled
with a wide range of features and options to offer designers of image
processing and data streaming applications a new level of capability.
The RC300 package provides a desktop environment intended for
evaluation and development of high-performance, high-throughput FPGA
and soft-core microprocessor based applications such as robotics and
industrial vision systems, video compression, video distribution,
high-speed encrypted VPN, packet filtering and network intrusion
detection.
To facilitate the use of the board for these types of
applications, the package provides a 6M gate Xilinx Virtex II FPGA
with direct access to four large banks of ZBT SRAM (totaling 32Mbytes)
and a DIMM socket for customer-provided DRAM.
High-performance video, including stereoscopic video applications,
is enabled by the dual video inputs and outputs, including both
digital video to the DVI standard and analog video.
As an option, the board can be supplied with a high-resolution
1024x768 12.1-inch TFT/Touchscreen offering a quality and size of
display unique in the industry and providing potential for
sophisticated demonstrations of imaging applications such as in-car
infotainment.
Communications are provided by dual gigabit Ethernet MAC/PHYs and
10/100/1000baseT sockets offering capability for data streaming, data
distribution and high performance network applications. The board also
offers a USB 2.0 connection for high-speed bit file download and for
host to FPGA application communications.
To assist with debug, application status reporting and user
interaction, the board has 8 user-programmable LEDs and a four-line,
16 character LCD display as well as audio in/out, including SPDIF
digital out, PS2 keyboard and mouse connectors and dual RS232 ports.
The RC2000-Pro package provides an environment for the development
of high-performance FPGA / Hard-core processor based SOC applications
particularly in the area of image processing. The package is composed
of a high performance FPGA development environment and supporting
software including platform abstraction layer (PAL) and data stream
manager (DSM) support, allowing rapid development of
platform-independent Handel-C applications using the Celoxica DK
Design Suite.
The hardware is based on a PCI mezzanine card (PMC) featuring
either a XC2VP70 or XC2VP100 Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Platform FPGA. The
PMC card also provides a high speed PCI interface, DDR SSRAM and DDR
SDRAM external memory, programmable clocks, temperature monitoring,
battery backed encryption and flash boot facilities. The PMC card can
be adapted to customer requirements by fitting an optional daughter
module offering a range of I/O and/or additional memory
configurations.
For use in a standard PC/PCI environment, the PMC card is
supported by a dual PMC to PCI carrier card providing 64-bit 66MHz
primary and secondary PCI via an Intel 21154 PCI-PCI bridge device.
PMC Pn4 user I/O connections can be routed between the PMC sites or
can be connected to an on-board I/O connector. The PMC card can also
be used in a CompactPCI environment through the use of a dual PMC to
CPCI carrier card.
Pricing and Availability
The RC300 will be available later this month (March 2004) with
prices starting at $12,500 including power supply and supporting
software for Windows 2000 and Windows XP platforms. The RC2000Pro
range is now available with boards starting at $15,000 including
supporting software for Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Celoxica also
offers the DK Design Suite and other software products supporting the
Software-Compiled System Design methodology as well as a broad range
of design services and other off-the-shelf FPGA prototyping cards.
About Celoxica
An innovator in system-level electronic design automation (EDA),
Celoxica supplies the design technology, IP and services that define
Software-Compiled System Design, a methodology that exploits higher
levels of design abstraction to dramatically improve silicon design
productivity. Celoxica's products address hardware/software
partitioning, co-verification and C-based synthesis to reconfigurable
hardware. Established in 1996, Celoxica offers a proven route from
complex software algorithms to hardware, and provides an ideal design
environment for System FPGA with significant productivity advantages
for digital signal processing applications such as imaging, electronic
security and communications. For more information, visit:
www.celoxica.com.
Celoxica, Handel-C and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of
Celoxica, Ltd. All other brand names and product names are the
property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Celoxica Ltd.
Jeff Jussel, 408-626-9070
jeff.jussel@celoxica.com
or
VitalCom Marketing & PR
Karen Tyrrell, 650-366-8212 x204
Karen@vitalcompr.com
or
Neesham PR
Allan Edwards, +44-1442-879-222
allane@neesham.co.uk
