Product category: Programmable Logic Devices
News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Stratix II
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 14 March 2005
Top density FPGAs
enable heavyweight prototyping
Altera development kit partner Gidel has released the Procstar II 180 development system for rapid ASIC and SoC prototyping, research and high-density applications
Featuring up to four of Altera's Stratix 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.
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'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, ProcMultiPort and PSDB_Proto) offer significant time-to-market advantages by eliminating the need for board design, development of PCI application drivers, board constraints and generic FPGA code.
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This enables designers to focus on their proprietary value-added design, as opposed to spending their time recreating 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 2.5Gbyte of onboard memory capable of achieving a sustained access rate of 15Gbyte/s, TI DSP processors and a variety of addon boards for memory expansion.
The development boards can be connected to a PCIbus for easy hardware or software development, or used alone.
The double datarate II (DDR2) memory structure, combined with the unique Gidel MultiPort 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, Gidel's advanced board architecture and development tools, will meet the requirements of almost any designer'.
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