Product category:
Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Nallatech | Subject: BenPro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 September 2002
Module puts Virtex-II Pro FPGAs to
embedded use
BenPro is the world's first Virtex-II Pro Dime-II module offering maximum scalability and maximum communications bandwidth for telecomms, data networks, DSP and embedded processing applications.
BenPro is the world's first Virtex-II Pro Dime-II module offering maximum scalability and maximum communications bandwidth for telecomms, data networks, DSP and embedded processing applications The Virtex-II Pro family includes the world's highest capacity, performance, and capability of any programmable logic device
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Nallatech's BenPro module is available with a XC2VP7 or XC2VP20 Virtex-II Pro device and a roadmap to support the full range of Virtex-II Pro devices.
As Virtex-II Pro FPGAs have embedded PowerPC processors, a single Dime-II module can now offer up to two hard processors and up to 20,000 logic cells for computational and interfacing tasks.
This can be coupled with I/O bandwidth in the order of 25Gbit/s by using up to four Rocket I/O transceivers, which allows physical connections to serial RapidIO, Infiniband and serial ATA devices, in addition to the standard I/O provided by Dime-II.
To support onboard data and program storage, two banks of high-speed ZBT SRAM are included.
This enables a suitable memory architecture to be chosen for whichever algorithm or platform architecture is required.
According to Ken Chapman, Applications Specialist, Xilinx Europe, "With the BenPro, Nallatech has managed the complexity of the new Xilinx technology to provide working hardware that allows designers to develop complex systems with the minimum of risk".
According to Dr Malachy Devlin, CTO, Nallatech, "With the addition of two PowerPC processors and 3.125Gbit serial I/Os in the Virtex-II Pro, FPGAs are now a powerful programmable solution for high-performance DSP system applications.
Although the Virtex-II Pro device on the BenPro has up to two processors, Nallatech's Dime-II modular systems platform can scale systems way beyond this.
For example, Dime-II will enable users to tightly couple three BenPro modules on a single PCI card such as the BenNuey, which provides six PowerPC processors on a single card.
Then using our FUSE software this can be expanded to multiple cards, leading to an unlimited number of processors within the overall system".
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