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Celoxica, GiDEL Bring FPGA+DSP Acceleration to Embedded Imaging Applications
OXFORDSHIRE, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 19, 2006—
Celoxica (LSE:CXA) today announced a partnership with
reconfigurable computing specialist GiDEL to drastically reduce design
time for high-end image processing, broadcast and machine vision
applications. Using programmable logic as a low-power coprocessor to
accelerate system performance, the partnership will integrate
Celoxica's ESL design environment and video IP libraries with GiDEL's
high-performance FPGA+ modular DSP platforms.
The maturity of ESL design tools for FPGA, coupled with demand for
real-time performance in imaging and video based applications, has
turned designers to programmable logic to provide coprocessor
acceleration to existing DSP or microprocessor solutions.
Processor-intensive functions are off-loaded to the FPGA, processed in
real time and returned to the host or migrated completely to the FPGA
fabric.
Celoxica's system design tools enable developers to implement
their proprietary C algorithms directly into the FPGA hardware and are
augmented with libraries of parameterizable video IP. Using Celoxica's
open API software and board support packages, users create imaging
applications independent of board level detail and compile their
applications to program the FPGAs on GiDEL platforms.
"From our experience in video and machine vision applications we
saw the demand from software and DSP designers to exploit FPGA-based
coprocessors," said Shlomo Keisari, vice president of sales and
marketing for GiDEL. "By partnering with Celoxica we can provide our
customers with a proven C-based design solution that makes our
hardware platforms completely software programmable."
Celoxica's DK Design Suite of programming tools and PixelStreams
library of parameterizable video IP target GiDEL's PROC series of
high-performance reconfigurable computing platforms. The modular
boards are fitted with high density FPGAs from Altera Corporation,
high-end DSPs from Texas Instruments and are supported with high speed
interconnect. To support imaging applications, GiDEL's platforms offer
VGA, DVI and the industry-standard CameraLink.
"Using the DK Design Suite to directly implement software
algorithms onto GiDEL's hardware platforms, designers can stay in
their familiar software design environment but take advantage of the
FPGAs parallel processing structures," said Sandeep Ram vice president
of European sales for Celoxica. "The end result is better performance
with unbeatable design time efficiencies."
Bundled hardware and software solutions are available immediately,
with pricing dependent upon platform configuration and modular
options.
About Celoxica
Celoxica is enabling the next generation of advanced electronic
products by producing tools, boards, IP and services that turn
software into silicon. 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. Celoxica is a publicly traded
company on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock
Exchange under the symbol CXA. For more information, visit:
www.celoxica.com.
About GiDEL
GiDEL Ltd, www.GiDEL.com, is a successful, profitable and
innovative company which was founded in 1993. GiDEL has become one of
the market leaders as a company that continuously provides
cutting-edge reconfigurable technology utilizing FPGAs. GiDEL sees its
customers as partners and uses its vast experience at the
project-level & FPGA design to focus on its customers' projects
success.
Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica Holdings
plc. All other brand names and product names are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Celoxica Ltd.
Jeff Jussel, 512-795-8170
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VitalCom Marketing & PR
Lou Covey, 650-366-8212
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or
Neesham PR
Peter van der Sluijs, +44-1296-628-180
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