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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Altera Stratix II FPGAs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2007
Development board uses FPGAs
The RapidFire development board hosts two Stratix II FPGAs, which offer designers a high-density solution rich in logic and RAM blocks.
Altera Stratix II FPGAs are featured in TrellisWare Technologies' RapidFire development board The RapidFire development board enables fast prototyping and testing of complex physical-layer designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 27 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The board hosts two Stratix II FPGAs, which offer designers a high-density solution rich in logic and RAM blocks, suitable for hardware acceleration of commercial and military communication architectures.
The RapidFire development board allows customers to target either a Stratix II FPGA or a pin- and package-compatible HardCopy II structured ASIC solution for production.
"RapidFire is a major breakthrough for communication system designers", said Metin Bayram, Director of FEC and High-Speed Modem Solutions at TrellisWare.
"With the Stratix II FPGAs, RapidFire can produce in seconds performance results that typically took a C-simulation environment days or weeks".
Stratix II FPGAs bring a high-performance, high-density solution to the RapidFire development board, allowing customers to evaluate TrellisWare's full range of waveform, high-speed modem and forward error correction (FEC) intellectual property (IP) products.
In addition, RapidFire enables evaluation of TrellisWare's Chameleon, a low-power FEC ASIC which implements TrellisWare's flexible low density parity check (F-LDPC) technology.
Through the RapidFire environment, customers can develop, test and prototype advanced military communications systems and seamlessly implement their design into either a Stratix II FPGA or HardCopy II structured ASIC.
By scaling their completed designs to a HardCopy II structured ASIC, customers can gain a size, weight and power (SWaP) advantage.
"TrellisWare has a rich tradition of offering advanced communications IP solutions for the military and commercial markets and we believe this solution is the start of a long relationship between the two companies", said Amr El-Ashmawi, Senior Business Unit Manager of Altera's military/aerospace market.
"The use of our Stratix II FPGAs within the RapidFire development board provides designers a flexible, high-performance FPGA architecture that they can use to develop the most advanced communications systems".
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