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News Release from: Nallatech | Subject: Virtex-5 based rugged embedded computing family
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 June 2007
FPGA modules to upgrade to latest Xilinx
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Virtex-5 based rugged embedded computing family to provide customers with industry leading solutions for use in a wide range of operating environments.
Nallatech is currently working on a new Xilinx Virtex-5 based rugged embedded computing family This range is based on industry standard form factors including VPX (VITA 46), VXS (VITA 41) and XMC and will feature rugged products to provide customers with industry leading solutions for use in a wide range of operating environments
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 26 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Over the last decade, Nallatech has developed a substantial global customer base that includes several of the major defence prime contractors".
"The deployable product family has been developed in direct response to demand from customers for application-ready technology and builds on the company's highly successful DIME-II and HPC product families", says Craig Anderson, CEO at Nallatech.
"We are working with a number of new and existing customers who are developing applications that will benefit from the capabilities of the new product range".
"In addition to the availability of rugged Virtex-5 capabilities, these products provide our customers with rugged solutions and an effective migration path from development to deployment".
"The adoption of Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs in this forthcoming range of Nallatech embedded computing products enables Nallatech customers to benefit from the advantages of 65nm that Virtex-5 offers, with DSP focused Virtex-5 SXT devices being of particular relevance to application developers in the defence and security sectors", says Per Holmberg, Marketing Director, Programmable Digital Systems at Xilinx.
"Xilinx is delighted to build on the relationship we have had with Nallatech over the years and this is the sixth generation of Xilinx Virtex series FPGAs that Nallatech has designed into COTS FPGA computing solutions".
Nallatech will be announcing further product information in the coming months and will be delivering Virtex-5 products to customers in Q4 of 2007.
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