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BINACHIP Joins Xilinx ESL Initiative; New ESL Starter Kit Targets Acceleration of High-Performance Embedded Applications Using Xilinx FPGAs
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 24, 2006—
BINACHIP today announced it is collaborating with
Xilinx, Inc. to provide integrated, high-powered electronic system
level (ESL) design methodologies that support programmable systems
designers targeting embedded processing and digital signal processing
(DSP) applications. BINACHIP -- the newest member of the Xilinx ESL
Initiative (www.xilinx.com/esl) -- is focused on automating the
creation of high-performance embedded systems to reduce design times
from months to days. The Initiative was formed to give software
programmers and Xilinx FPGA users detailed information and technical
resources for ESL design.
BINACHIP also today announced the immediate availability of an ESL
Starter Kit, consisting of BINACHIP-FPGA and a Virtex(TM)-II Pro
development board, allowing users to quickly design and build embedded
applications that meet their price, performance, and time-to-market
constraints.
As part of the Xilinx ESL Initiative, BINACHIP'S flagship product
-- BINACHIP-FPGA -- now fully supports the Xilinx ESL flow and the
Virtex-II Pro line of FPGAs. BINACHIP-FPGA lets users determine if a
portion of the binary code will benefit from a hardware
implementation. If so, it is automatically compiled into hardware and
the appropriate hardware/software interfaces are generated, while the
remaining code is translated into binary for the target processor.
Depending on the application, the resulting implementation can provide
a 10X to 50X speedup over a pure software implementation.
"BINACHIP enables designers to easily utilize FPGAs to optimize
the performance of their embedded processing or DSP applications,
while still using their current software development environment,"
said Steve Lass, senior director of Software Product Marketing at
Xilinx. "We are pleased to have them as an ecosystem partner, and
believe this is another important step toward broadening the
popularity of ESL design for FPGAs."
"The Xilinx ESL Initiative is having enormous impact on the design
community," said Susheel Chandra, BINACHIP president and CEO. "We are
very happy to be working with them and look forward to providing
advanced design methodologies to our mutual customers in the years
ahead."
Price/Availability
BINACHIP's ESL Starter Kit is available now. Price is $4,995 and
includes a three-month license for BINACHIP-FPGA and a Xilinx
Virtex-II Pro development board. For additional information or to
order, contact sales@binachip.com.
About Xilinx ESL Initiative
The Xilinx ESL Initiative is a multi-faceted program aimed at
proliferating high-level design methodologies and tool flows for
FPGAs. The goal is to make it easier for hardware designers and
software programmers to leverage Xilinx programmable devices for their
next generation systems. Xilinx and participating companies are
focused on improving ease of use, quality of results and
interoperability standards through technical collaboration,
cooperative marketing and joint educational activities. For more
information about the Xilinx ESL Initiative, visit www.xilinx.com/esl.
About BINACHIP
BINACHIP develops and markets software products and services that
enable embedded systems developers to design and implement
high-performance applications within their price/performance and
time-to-market constraints. It also enables seamless migration of
software from older-generation, general-purpose, embedded processors
into newer hardware, and mixed hardware/software platforms of the
future. BINACHIP's core technology is the result of work done at
Northwestern University by co-founder Professor Prith Banerjee and his
team. He is currently Dean of the College of Engineering at the
University of Illinois at Chicago. BINACHIP is privately held with
offices in San Jose, Calif., and Glenview, Ill. For more information
and to download demo versions of BINACHIP software: www.binachip.com.
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