Celoxica Generates HiEnergy Solution; C-Synthesis to High-Performance FPGA Cards Accelerate System Algorithms for Developer of Bomb Detection Equipment
ANAHEIM, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 15, 2005—
Celoxica, Ltd. today announced that HiEnergy
Technologies, Inc. (HiEnergy), a developer of advanced stoichiometric
sensor devices, has adopted the Celoxica DK Design Suite of C-based
design and synthesis tools to accelerate chemical formula analysis
algorithms. HiEnergy and Celoxica have successfully implemented and
delivered these algorithms using Celoxica RC2000 FPGA boards in
HiEnergy's SIEGMA(TM) 3E3 product used for the remote detection of
hidden homemade bombs.
The SIEGMA(TM) 3E3, integrating Celoxica's boards, is being
marketed globally to first responders from a wide array of federal,
state, and local agencies, as well as the armed forces. Most recently,
Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA), the
nation's fifth largest public transportation system and the largest
multi-modal transit authority in the United States, selected the
SIEGMA(TM) 3E3 system to provide its more than 1 million riders per
day with a safer and more secure travel environment.
"We chose to work with Celoxica because they provided us with a
complete software and hardware acceleration solution for optimizing
the performance of our C algorithms," said Dr. Bogdan Maglich,
HiEnergy's CEO and chief scientist. "This solution gives us the speed
and flexibility necessary to optimize our SIEGMA 3E3 system,
demonstrated in our recent reduction of false positives by half with
no increase in the interrogation time."
Based in Irvine, California, HiEnergy develops neutron-based
sensor devices with the ability to decipher the chemical formulas of
unknown substances. Without human intervention and with 95% accuracy,
these devices automatically detect the presence of selected substances
such as explosives, biological agents or illicit drugs. HiEnergy uses
the Celoxica C-based design and synthesis tools to optimize the
algorithms and synthesize them directly to FPGA hardware. Portions of
the algorithm are moved to hardware to accelerate the signal
processing and free the embedded processor for other tasks. The
accelerated hardware algorithms are then implemented on a Celoxica
RC2000 PCI card which is then incorporated in the production system.
Celoxica provides the only complete design and synthesis
environment to accelerate C-based algorithms directly to FPGA. The DK
Design Suite of tools delivers the fastest path from algorithm to
system implementation providing software-based design entry,
cycle-accurate simulation, C-based synthesis to optimized FPGA device
descriptions or RTL code, and direct integration with FPGA vendor
place and route. In addition, Celoxica is the only system-level design
provider that actually designs systems, offering a wide range of FPGA
development cards and consulting services to ensure customer success.
"Leading edge system developers such as HiEnergy are increasingly
looking to reprogrammable hardware accelerators like the RC2000 to
augment processor performance, reduce power consumption and maximize
algorithm performance," said Phil Bishop president and CEO of
Celoxica. "The optimization of HiEnergy's bomb detection systems shows
the power of our C-based design and synthesis tools and how they can
be deployed to quickly expand the performance and capabilities of very
complex signal processing systems."
About HiEnergy Technologies, Inc.
HiEnergy Technologies, Inc. (OTCBB:HIET) is a nuclear
technologies-based company focused on the commercialization of its
initial proprietary, neutron-based, "stoichiometric" sensor devices,
including (i) the CarBomb Finder(TM) 3C4, a vehicle-borne system, for
the detection and identification of car bombs, and (ii) the SIEGMA(TM)
3E3, a portable suitcase-borne system for the detection and
identification of home-made bombs, also known as Improvised Explosive
Devices or IEDs. HiEnergy is currently developing prototypes in
programs with the U.S. Department of Defense and the Department of
Homeland Security for other related uses of its core technology,
including a funded cooperative development agreement with the U.S.
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) to produce a proof of
concept which incorporates the Company's SuperSenzor(TM) technology
into a baggage screening system.
About Celoxica
An innovator in Electronic System Level (ESL) design, Celoxica is
turning software into silicon by supplying the design tools, boards,
IP and services that enable the next generation of advanced electronic
product design. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the
algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs
by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software
descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides
the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis
solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets
such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive,
industrial and security. For more information, visit:
www.celoxica.com.
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