Boards speed Virtex II Pro development

As part of their joint support of the growing demand for Xilinx Virtex II Pro solutions, Celoxica is to add Alpha Data's Virtex II-Pro development boards to its product range.

As part of their joint support of the growing demand for Xilinx Virtex II Pro solutions, Celoxica is to add Alpha Data's Virtex II-Pro development boards to its product range.

Celoxica will provide support for the use of these boards with its DK Design Suite by implementing PAL (platform abstraction layer) and DSM (data stream manager) for use with these boards.

Celoxica will sell the complete solution to its wide range of commercial and academic customers.

"Alpha Data is pleased that Celoxica has chosen to make our products a key element of their attack on the Platform FPGA market", said Graham Smart, MD of Alpha Data, "We have worked with Celoxica over many years and understand the power that their DK Design Suite brings, particularly when software and hardware need to be developed together to work in a platform device".

"Alpha Data's boards provide us with an excellent high-performance platform to offer to our customers", said Jeff Jussel, VP of Marketing for Celoxica, "When coupled with Celoxica's technology we can now provide a complete solution to make Platform FPGAs useable and accessible to system developers.

We are very excited about the potential that platform devices provide and believe that working with Alpha Data to provide solutions gives us a leading-edge product at an early stage in the development of the Platform FPGA market".

The Celoxica DK Design Suite makes it possible to program FPGAs directly from C software algorithms, bypassing traditional design stages and reducing overall development costs.

The Celoxica tool is a system design environment providing features for HW/SW codesign and partitioning, system model co-verification, and direct C-to-hardware compilation to reprogrammable devices.

Applied to Platform FPGAs, the DK Design Suite further reduces the costs of accelerators by allowing software and hardware development teams to work closely together using common tools and methodologies.

Celoxica's PAL and DSM provide hardware abstraction and processor-FPGA integration allowing more rapid development of applications, simpler partitioning of applications between resources and easier migration of applications between platforms.

The Alpha Data ADM-XRC-II Pro, to be available from Celoxica under the RC2000 Pro label, leverages the features of the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro range of Platform FPGAs.

The products are available in PCI, PMC, VME and CompactPCI formats with a software development kit supported under Windows, Linux and VxWorks.

Features include SSRAM, SDRAM, Flash memory and programmable clocks.

Flexible I/O is provided via Alpha Data's XRM front panel I/O cards and includes high-speed interfaces such as RocketIO, RapidIO, FPDP and CameraLink.

Pricing varies according to board configuration.

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