Development System provides ASIC and SoC prototyping.
Press Release Summary:
Featuring up to 4 Stratix(TM) II EP2S180 FPGAs, PROCStar(TM) II 180 Development System provides high-speed, dynamically reconfigurable, FPGA-based design platform. It includes up to 2.5 GB onboard memory capable of achieving sustained access rate of 15 Gb/sec, TI DSP processors, and add-on boards for memory expansion. Development boards can be connected to PCI bus for hardware or software development or used alone. PROCStar II's short traces ensure system speeds up to 300 MHz.
Original Press Release:
GiDEL Ships PROCStar II Development System Featuring Industry's Largest FPGA from Altera
Ein Ayyala, Israel, March 8, 2005 -GiDEL Ltd, an Altera Corporation development kit partner, today announced the immediate availability of the PROCStar(TM) II 180 development system for rapid ASIC and SoC prototyping, research and high-density applications. Featuring up to four of Altera's Stratix(TM) II EP2S180 devices, the industry's fastest and highest-density FPGAs, the PROCStar II system gives designers a high capacity, high-speed, dynamically reconfigurable FPGA-based design platform for applications such as digital signal processing (DSP), machine vision, video processing, as well as aerospace, and military systems.
"Delivering development systems with Altera's industry-leading FPGAs gives customers a best-in-class development platform for highly advanced designs," said Reuven Weintraub, president and CTO of GiDEL. "The introduction of the PROCStar II 180 combined with our tools is yet another important milestone in the company's growth, as partners and customers increasingly look to GiDEL for leading chip and system rapid development platform solutions."
The PROCStar II system combined with GiDEL's PROC Developer's Tools (PROCWizard(TM), PROCMultiPort(TM) and PSDB_Proto(TM)) offer significant time-to-market advantages by eliminating the need for board design, development of PCI application drivers, board constraints and generic FPGA code. This enables designers to focus on their proprietary value-added design, as opposed to spending their time re-creating standard design components.
The PROCStar II 180 is the newest member of the PROCStar II series of development systems, which are also shipping in versions featuring the Stratix II EP2S60 and Stratix II EP2S130 devices. The PROCStar II development system also includes up to 2.5GBs of on board memory capable of achieving a sustained access rate of 15GB/sec, TI DSP processors and a variety of add-on-boards for memory expansion. The development boards can be connected to a PCI bus for easy hardware or software development, or used alone. The double data rate II (DDR2) memory structure, combined with the unique Gidel MultiPort(TM) controller enables new design methodologies that simplify achieving maximum system performance. The PROCStar II system's short traces ensure system speeds up to 300MHz.
"GiDEL's PROCStar development system gives designers an enormous amount of flexibility and resources for cutting edge system development," said David Greenfield, Altera's senior director of product marketing for high-density FPGAs. "The combination of our Stratix II devices with GiDEL's advanced board architecture and development tools will meet the requirements of almost any designer."
About Stratix II Devices
Stratix II devices provide more than double the logic density and are on average 39 percent faster than the nearest competitive FPGA devices. Its innovative logic structure allows designers to conserve device resources by packing more functionality into a smaller area. For more information about Stratix II devices, please visit www.altera.com/stratix2.
About GiDEL
GiDEL Ltd, www.gidel.com, is a successful, profitable and innovative company which was founded in 1993. GiDEL has become one of the market leaders as a company that continuously provides cutting-edge reconfigurable technology utilizing FPGAs. GiDEL sees it's customers as partners and uses its vast experience at the project-level & FPGA design to focus on it's customers' projects success. For more information about the PROCStar development systems, please visit www.gidel.com/PROCStar%20II.htm.
About Altera
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is the world's pioneer of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) solutions. Combining programmable logic technology with software tools, intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides high-value programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. More information is available at www.altera.com.
