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Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Solid State Supplies | Subject: Field Programmable Object Arrays
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2007
Programmable arrays are logical
development
MathStar Field Programmable Object Arrays are now available in the UK from Solid State Supplies.
Available now from Solid State Supplies is a range of field-reprogrammable ICs that process logic functions at clock rates up to 1GHz The arrival of the new line follows the company's appointment as the UK representative for US based manufacturer MathStar
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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This new class of logic platform chips called Field Programmable Object Arrays (FPOAs) offer up to four times the performance of commercially available FPGAs.
MathStar believes that system level solutions in many modern applications, such as image and media processing, have evolved to the point of requiring hundreds of billions of computations per second (GOPS) of digital processing performance to compete in today's markets.
To achieve these computational rates, many of these applications currently use special purpose ASICs which are generally viewed as cost effective only for large volume, fixed function applications.
FPOAs are an attractive alternative to ASICs in high performance applications because they combine the life cycle cost, time to market and time-in-market advantages of existing programmable logic devices while delivering the performance of ASICs.
Consisting of silicon objects arranged in an internal grid pattern, memory and input/outputs, the object grid of an FPOA is overlaid with a patented, high speed interconnect system creating the silicon object array.
This array of objects and interconnect matrix is programmed to execute unique customer applications.
FPOAs provide a new way of implementing high performance algorithmic functions in silicon integrated circuits.
They are not programmed at the gate level but instead are programmed at the silicon object level, which reduces their development time and cost as compared with other methods of chip design.
According to Richard Bethell, Solid State's Technical Director: "We believe that FPOAs are ideally suited to implement high-performance algorithmic functions in many image processing, communications, computing, industrial and military/aerospace applications and are delighted with the appointment enabling us to supply components which will sit nicely with a number of other specialised solutions we are able to offer".
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