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Celoxica Adds Floating-Point Toolkit to IP Portfolio; Cores Optimized for FPGA-Based Digital Signal Processing & High-Performance Computing Applications
OXFORDSHIRE, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 19, 2006—
Celoxica (AIM:CXA) today announced availability of a
toolkit for Floating-Point arithmetic implementation in high-density
programmable logic. The IEEE 754 compliant libraries support single,
double and custom precision Floating-Point. They are fully
parameterizable for area, latency and performance optimization across
all leading programmable logic architectures and can be tuned to
specific application requirements delivering industry-leading
performance and unrivalled flexibility.
Developed in conjunction with the Institute of Information Theory
and Automation (UTIA) in the Czech Republic, the underlying IP behind
the Floating-Point ToolKit represents the first milestone between
Celoxica and UTIA since the two organizations signed a multi-year
research agreement. The Floating Point ToolKit is being deployed into
high-performance computing (HPC) application areas such as the
automated trading of equities and related financial derivatives, oil
and gas exploration and embedded applications including audio and
video DSP filtering.
Parallel designs using the Floating-Point core modules can deliver
up to 50 Giga Floating-Point Operations per Second (GFLOPS) and
support the processing requirements in real-time imaging and signal
processing applications, and compute-intensive routines typically used
in clustered server and supercomputer architectures. By exploiting the
inherent parallelism of FPGA hardware, exceptionally high
Floating-Point arithmetic can be achieved with significant
performance-per-watt energy savings. The combination of the
Floating-Point ToolKit with programmable logic means the number of
instances of the Floating-Point operator is user configurable and
scalable.
The Floating-Point ToolKit supports pipelined add, subtract,
multiply, divide and square-root operations, and conversions to and
from 32bit fixed point. The add module has a five stage pipeline for
all precisions and the multiply module is provided with user
configurable pipelines to support the embedded multiplier and DSP
blocks in modern FPGA devices. 18m12, 24m16, 32m24, 40m32, 64m53
precisions are supported as is IEEE754 rounding to the nearest and
even. The custom precisions provided in the ToolKit are optimized for
designers who want to take maximum advantage of embedded FPGA
resources such as DSP blocks and make optimum use of existing gate
counts.
For simulation and verification the ToolKit supports
processor-in-the-loop and hardware-in-the-loop simulation. Bit-exact
Simulink blocks for all arithmetic operations supported by the library
(precisions 18m12, 24m16, 32m24, 40m32 and 64m53) are included and
test vectors can be created in Simulink models and debugged in
Celoxica's DK Design Suite. Breakpoints help debug the implementation
at the register level and DK's simulator reads data generated in the
Simulink model and returns data back for verification of the bit exact
results. Implementation to the FPGA is supported with API layers that
allow application reuse across different programmable platforms
without additional development or recoding.
"This important addition to our IP portfolio addresses customer
need in both the DSP and HPC space for a very high-performance, fully
parameterizable and platform-independent floating-point capability,"
said Chris Sullivan, director of strategic marketing for Celoxica. "We
can readily tune and re-tune the libraries to meet changing
architectures and specifications, and the current implementation not
only provides industry-beating performance and flexibility, but the
libraries themselves demonstrate the extreme circuit optimization that
can be achieved using the DK Design Suite."
The ToolKit is available from Celoxica in a variety of different
configurations. For further information contact info@celoxica.com or
your local Celoxica sales office.
About Celoxica
A leader in electronic system level design (ESL), 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.
Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica, Ltd.
All other brand names and product names are the property of their
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