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News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: RC250
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 March 2005
Board speeds electronic system level
design
The RC250 is a high-performance FPGA development board for complex system design and is available with an out-of-the-box suite of ESL design software, IP and system level APIs.
Celoxica the leading provider of C-based electronic system level (ESL) design and synthesis solutions, today announced the availability of its newest programmable SoC prototyping and development platform The RC250 further extends Celoxica's RC series of high-performance FPGA development boards for complex system design and is available with an out-of-the-box suite of ESL design software, IP and system level APIs for rapid system exploration and implementation
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
The RC250 package offers designers a complete HW/SW desktop environment for complex system development.
Expressly designed for the rapid creation of high-performance, high-throughput multimedia and communications applications, the RC250 has a feature rich array of peripherals including analogue and digital video I/O, two channel gigabit Ethernet and USB2.0.
Also supplied is a comprehensive platform support library (PSL) that allows easy access to the board-level features from the ESL.
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Design suite extended to latest FPGAs
Celoxica has extended its DK1 design suite for the rapid design of reconfigurable hardware to support Xilinx Virtex II customers.
Board helps with small to medium FPGA prototyping
New from Celoxica, the RC100 stand-alone development board provides a rapid prototyping platform for small- to medium-sized FPGA designs.
System level APIs supplied with the RC250 enable HW/SW codesign and architectural exploration of partitions, and encourage IP reuse by abstracting the specific board level detail away from the application code.
"Altera and Celoxica have been working together to provide embedded system developers a powerful method for accelerating software algorithms written in C to hardware functions that typically run many orders of magnitude faster", said Jim Smith, Director of EDA Vendor Relations for Altera.
"Celoxica's RC250 is the ideal environment for rapid prototyping and development of performance-optimised systems-on-chip".
To process and manipulate I/O-intensive and data-streamed applications the RC250 is fitted with a 9-million gate Altera Stratix II EP2S90 FPGA with direct access to the onboard ZBT SRAM and DDR SDRAM.
High-performance video applications are supported by analogue and digital video I/O, as well as dual CMOS camera connectors.
Dual gigabit Ethernet MAC/PHYs and 10/100/1000Base-T sockets provides capability for data streaming, data distribution and high performance network applications and RC250 also offers a USB 2.0 connection for high-speed bit file download and to host FPGA application communications.
"With an ever increasing demand for easy access to programmable SoCs at the system level, the RC250 is the latest addition to our RC series of boards that consistently deliver fast and efficient access to very high density reconfigurable silicon", said Graham McKenzie, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Celoxica.
The RC250 is available direct from Celoxica or through its sales distribution partners.
Pricing starts at $7650 for the RC250 Professional and $9000 for the R250 Expert.
Celoxica also offers the DK Design Suite and DKAccelerator for Altera's SOPC Builder tool, Agility Complier for SystemC synthesis and other software products supporting electronic system level design and programmable SoC development.
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