Kit puts novel content processor to good use

The Tarari content processor development kit simplifies performance-optimised dynamically reprogrammable solutions for compute-intensive applications.

The Tarari content processor development kit is a combination of hardware and software-based subsystem building blocks that enable OEMs, system integrators and software vendors to quickly and cost effectively design and develop performance-optimised, dynamically reprogrammable solutions for compute-intensive applications.

Integrated with the Celoxica DK design suite, the content processor development kit provides a flexible design environment and an extensive set of development tools and guides designed to shorten the development lifecycle from months to weeks.

The content processor development kit is the first released product in Tarari's Formula-CP Acceleration Series.

Tarari Formula-CP content processors are designed for high-volume production implementations and are built on standards to facilitate integration with a wide variety of platforms.

Solutions based on the content processor development kit can accelerate content processing at the message and application level, which is different than processing at the packet layer.

Until now, processing acceleration has focused on looking at packet headers, performing table lookups, and forwarding the packets to their destination.

Today, however, with the increased need for compute-intensive applications to run at wire speeds, system developers must perform deep analysis on a wealth of vital information that exists in the payload of messages.

This processing is too complex and too compute-intensive for existing systems to perform at network speeds and input rates.

This makes Tarari the first to deliver application layer content processors.

"The release of the content processor development kit enables the development community to create innovative, leading-edge content processing solutions that combine wire-speed performance with reprogramming flexibility", said Dave Finlay, Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Tarari.

"Through our combined effort with Celoxica, we are able to provide a robust development framework that software developers worldwide can use to achieve performance levels previously reserved for ASICs without suffering through protracted development cycles.

Additionally, the reprogrammable capabilities enable field upgradeability allowing customers to quickly and cost-effectively adapt to changing standards and business needs, significantly reducing costs and improving responsiveness".

"Celoxica is very excited to participate in offering the first production-worthy development platform that enables our customers to quickly and easily develop and deploy acceleration solutions for a variety of key compute-intensive challenges", said Jeff Jussel, Vice President of Marketing at Celoxica.

"The Tarari content processor development kit also presents Celoxica with a tremendous opportunity to offer our DK design suite to a broad new customer base".

When used with the Celoxica DK design suite, the content processor development kit enables developers to quickly and easily simulate, compile and deploy high-performance acceleration agents for applications performing a wide range of algorithms related to image, speech, seismic, security, signal, and many other types of processing.

The content processor development kit's flexible development hardware includes the Tarari content processing controller, Xilinx's field-upgradeable Virtex Platform FPGA devices and all the other required base-level components, allowing developers to focus solely on algorithm development.

This enables developers to create agents, hardware representations of complex software algorithms, that can process specific tasks five to ten times faster than otherwise possible.

The Tarari content processor development kit is available now and is being distributed through Celoxica.

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