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News Release from: 4DSP | Subject: FM480
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 April 2006
Mezzanine card puts FPGA to work on
floating point
The FM480 is a PCI Mezzanine Card based on the latest Virtex-4 FPGA technology from Xilinx.
New from 4DSP, the FM480 is a PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) based on the latest Virtex-4 FPGA technology from Xilinx The FM480 field trials have shown exceptional performances and robustness
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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PCI-X and PCI-express mezzanine card has dual Xilinx Virtex-4, four optical transceivers, and optional A/D, D/A and video capabilities for data acquisition and high-performance signal processing.
The first application developed for the FM480 was a 2D fast Fourier transform (FFT) based on the IEEE754 compliant floating point FFT core from 4DSP.
"It was thrilling to see that the FM480, employing a mid-size Virtex-4 FPGA could compute an FFT three times faster than a Dual Intel Xeon processor blade while consuming a third of the power", says Pierrick Vulliez, 4DSP's CTO.
"So far, FPGAs have mainly been employed in the world of fixed point arithmetic but with the right board architecture and off the shelf intellectual property cores, FPGA based products like the FM480 become more than viable alternatives to bulky processor blades".
"It takes the world of computing one step higher".
Optionally conduction cooled, the FM480 PMC expansion card comes with large SRAM and DRAM resources and ultrafast DMA engines, making it the ideal candidate as a coprocessor unit for demanding signal processing algorithms.
With several front panel I/O modules such as CameraLink, front panel data port (FPDP) and analogue to digital convertors, it offers a flexible integration platform for a wide range of applications.
The FM480 has already been shipped to several customers and current developments include a real time JPEG2000 compression implementation in the Virtex-4 device.
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