FPGA board aims for embedded designs

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Feb 13, 2004

The Tsunami PC104 is an FPGA processor for PC/104 Plus systems.

The Tsunami PC104 is an FPGA processor for PC/104 Plus systems.

The Tsunami PC104 architecture is integrated with SBS' Wave FPGA software toolkit which offers developers a platform for easy application development.

Aimed at leveraging FPGA processing into small embedded systems, this platform is ideal for mobile cart based systems, machine sensor and control I/O applications.

The PC/104 Plus processor includes Altera Stratix FPGAs on a 32bit/33MHz PCI interface, with enough memory and high bandwidth datapaths to make full use of the outstanding processing power of the Stratix chip.

"FPGA-based processing power comes from ASIC-like efficiency of software reprogrammable logic, and the ability to parallel-process multiple streams of data," said Ron Strauss, Vice President of SBS Canada.

"If your embedded application requires the resources of multiple CPUs or DSPs to process the required data rate and algorithm complexity, you should instead be considering an FPGA computing solution." The Wave FPGA software toolkit provides API, drivers, memory controller, source code and application examples.

The Tsunami PC104 is one in a family of FPGA processors and I/O modules provided by SBS Technologies.

Designers can choose from PCI, PC/104 Plus form factors or select EP1S25 or EP1S40 FPGAs, all operating in a common Wave software development environment for Windows XP/2000.

Both products are available now.