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PLDA And HARDI Electronics(R) Forge Strategic Partnership; PLDA's PCIe IP Controller Bundled with the HARDI ASIC Prototyping System
San Jose, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 13, 2006—
PLDApplications (PLDA), the leader in the PCI Express IP
controller market, and HARDI Electronics, the leader in platform-based
ASIC prototyping, today announced a partnership to bundle PLDA's IP
controller with the HARDI ASIC Prototyping System (HAPS).
Under the terms of the agreement, HAPS customers benefit from a
pre-installed, fully functional and free two-month evaluation of the
PCIe IP Controller that includes a configuration Wizard and complete
technical support provided directly by the IP design team.
"We evaluated several alternatives for partnering in the PCIe
space," explains Lars-Eric Lundgren, CEO of HARDI Electronics. "The
robustness of PLDA's technology, their market leading position, and
their excellent reputation in the industry made them the easy choice
for our IP partner."
HAPS is a flexible high-performance prototyping system that can be
expanded to any number of FPGAs to prototype an ASIC design, even
those greater than 20 million gates. It's the first modular FPGA board
system to offer high speed, high capacity, real-time debugging and
full ASIC functionality in a prototyping environment. The latest
generation of HAPS is based on the largest Xilinx Virtex-4 chips,
offering better performance at lower prices than ever before.
"Now in its third generation, the HAPS prototyping system has an
excellent reputation among ASIC designers for a rich feature set and
fast time-to-prototyping," says Arnaud Schleich, co-founder and VP of
Marketing for PLD Applications. "The combination of a flexible, easy
to use prototyping technology and world-class IP is a big win for our
mutual customers. We expect the relationship to enhance our already
significant share of the ASIC market for PCIe IP."
PLDA's silicon proven PCIe IP controller has been listed on
PCI-SIG's Integrators list since 2004. Today, PLDA has sold over 200
PCI Express licenses and offers two families of PCI Express IP that
support x1, x4, and x8 Lanes for Root Port, Endpoint, Bridge, and
Switch configurations. "PLDA is the largest provider of IP cores for
the logical and transport layers of PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express,"
according to A Guide to High-Speed Interconnects, published by The
Linley Group, Inc. Copyright 2006.
In a separate agreement, HARDI also integrates PLDA's PCIe IP
controller to manage data transfer for the new PCIE-1-KIT, which
includes a x1 HAPS daughter board with Philips PHY, a x4 host
interface board, and a x4 PCIe cable that connects the two. The system
permits a high-speed connection between the HAPS prototyping platform
and a PC.
About PLDA
PLDA designs and sells a wide range of ASIC and FPGA interfacing
solutions for the PCI and derivative markets (PCI Express, PCI-X, and
PCI). The company offers complete solutions, including IP cores,
hardware, software, consulting services, and comprehensive technical
support provided directly by the IP designers. For additional
information about PLD Applications, please visit http://www.plda.com.
About HARDI Electronics
Founded in 1987, HARDI Electronics is a pioneer in the field of
structured HDL-design. The company's knowledge and experience ranges
from SoC design using full custom ASICs to a wide variety of designs
with programmable logic. HARDI introduced its first ASIC prototyping
product in 2000 and today has many successful installations in North
America, Europe and Asia. The privately held company is headquartered
in Sweden and was incorporated in the USA in 2005. For additional
information about HARDI, please visit http://www.hardi.com.
Contact:
PLDA
David Warren, +33 (0) 442 393 600 x 0527
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