Nallatech Extends COTS Performance Density with New Virtex-4 FPGA Computing Family; Four New DIME-II Architecture Products to Meet Demanding Needs of High-Performance Embedded Computing Applications
BALTIMORE—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 25, 2005—
Nallatech has announced four new COTS FPGA products that
combine the processing and I/O performance of Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs
with enhancements to Nallatech's DIME-II architecture including host
interface improvements and enhanced clocking. These products extend
performance density for customers demanding the full capabilities of
Virtex-4 in high performance embedded computing applications including
surveillance and reconnaissance, software defined radio and signal
intelligence.
Nallatech's announcement includes the BenNUEY-PCI-X, a PCI-X
DIME-II motherboard with on-board Virtex-4 FX FPGA and three DIME-II
expansion sites.
Three additional FPGA computing modules complete the new product
set:
-- BenBLUE-V4 dual-FPGA processing engine;
-- BenDATA-V4 mixed memory and digital I/O module; and
-- BenADC-V4 ultra-high-speed analogue capture module.
Nallatech's new COTS FPGA products are available with the Virtex-4
LX FPGAs with high performance logic capability or the Virtex-4 SX
family optimized for DSP performance. These configurations allow
developers to optimize FPGA hardware resources to meet their precise
requirements across a diverse number of applications and build systems
that meet needs for scalability and performance.
By identifying the full capabilities of Virtex-4 in the product
design stage, Nallatech has been able to ensure its customers can
easily access all the features and performance of the FPGA
architecture. Fully integrated hardware and software support for all
platforms of the Virtex-4 family enhance performance in the whole
application and provide ease of design for customers.
Nallatech's Virtex-4 products support industry standard form
factors, including cPCI, VME, PCI and PCI-104, delivering up to eight
Virtex-4 FPGAs on a single COTS FPGA computing platform.
"These new Virtex-4 solutions are a significant milestone in
Nallatech's product development that enable developers to use the full
potential of the Xilinx Virtex-4 architecture with our hardware,
software and design tools," said Malachy Devlin, Senior V.P. and CTO
of Nallatech. "As a Xilinx Alliance Program Partner, Nallatech was
able to combine critical enhancements during our engineering to the
DIME-II architecture with attention to the latest industry
standards/form factors and extended hardware and software support."
The BenNUEY-PCI-X is the third generation of the BenNUEY series of
PCI cards and the first to offer the 1Gbyte host bandwidth of the
PCI-X bus. An on-board Virtex-4 FX60 or FX100 provides the ideal
balance of programmable resources for processing and system
management, while three DIME-II expansion slots allow users to
optimize system resources to meet processing, memory and I/O
requirements.
The BenBLUE-V4 features dual Virtex-4 LX100 or LX160 FPGAs, 64
Mbyte DDR2 SRAM, implemented on an enhanced DIME-II architecture. The
BenDATA-V4 features a Virtex-4 LX or SX with 16 Mbytes DDR2 SRAM and 1
Gbyte DDR-II SDRAM. By using the latest DDR2 SRAM and DDR-II SDRAM,
Nallatech's new memory subsystems increase bandwidth by more than 275%
compared to previous modules using technologies such as ZBT SRAM. This
allows system designers to satisfy higher processing demands, use
fewer processing modules, reduce hardware dimensions and simplify
integration.
The BenADC-V4 ultra-high-speed analog capture module combines the
Virtex-4 SX or LX and 16 Mbytes DDR2 SRAM with four independent analog
inputs feeding four 12-bit 250 MSPS ADC channels. This will allow
developers to capture, digitize, analyze and manipulate multi-channel
or complex signals in real time using lightweight, low-footprint
hardware with lower overall power requirements than DSP farms or other
large multi-processor arrays.
"The Virtex-4 architecture has tremendous I/O and processing
capability, that will outstrip peripherals that cannot satisfy demands
of many of today's HPEC applications," said Craig Sanderson, product
manager at Nallatech. "Nallatech focused on creating peripheral
subsystems to match the performance of the Virtex-4 family, in
addition to maximizing parameters such as memory bandwidth, thereby
delivering the highest returns for customers investing in Virtex-4
platforms."
Pricing and availability:
The four Virtex-4 COTS FPGA products will be available for
shipping Q1 2006; pricing is available on request. Please contact your
local sales representative at 877-44-NALLA or visit
www.nallatech.com/sales.
About Nallatech
Nallatech is the world's leading supplier of high-performance COTS
FPGA Solutions. Nallatech designs and manufactures high-performance
FPGA embedded products, in form factors such as PCI, VME, cPCI, PCI-X
and PCI-104. Customers benefit from lower costs, reduction in size,
weight and power and improved performance in end markets including,
defense, communications and energy and science. Headquartered in
Glasgow, Scotland, its wholly-owned subsidiary Nallatech Inc, has U.S.
group offices in Baltimore and regional offices in Phoenix,
Philadelphia and Boston. Nallatech has six operating locations
worldwide and international partner sales offices in seven countries.
For further information on Nallatech please visit
www.nallatech.com.
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