Achronix ships Speedster range

Achronix Semiconductor has announced that it has already begun shipping its Speedster range of FPGAs.

The Speedster family, with the SPD60 as its initial member, delivers speeds up to 1.5GHz, which represents a three-fold increase in performance over existing FPGAs.

Early engagement customers have already found success with Speedster in applications requiring ASIC-like performance, namely networking, telecommunications, test and measurement and encryption.

Achronix has partnered with leading synthesis vendors to make industry-standard tools and methodologies compatible with the Speedster family.

Designers can leverage their existing Verilog and VHDL designs.

The Achronix CAD environment supports both Synopsys Synplify Pro and Precision Synthesis tools from Mentor Graphics for RTL synthesis.

In addition, the Achronix CAD environment provides the necessary tools for physical implementation, performance optimisation, timing analysis, simulation, debug and device programming.

The Speedster range of FPGAs uses Achronix Picopipe acceleration technology that speeds the way data moves through the FPGA fabric.

In the absence of a global clock, Picopipes use simple handshake protocols to efficiently control data flow, resulting in improved performance, while using standard RTL for design-entry and employing familiar FPGA tools.

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