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Product category: Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Nu Horizons Electronics Corp | Subject: Spartan-3 development platforms
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 December 2004

Platforms speed FPGA development

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Nu Horizons Electronics Corp has two new development platforms based on the Spartan-3 family of low cost FPGAs from Xilinx.

Nu Horizons Electronics Corp has two new development platforms based on the Spartan-3 family of low cost FPGAs from Xilinx Featuring the 2 million-gate XC3S2000 FPGA and 1.5 million-gate XC3S1500, each platform offers a complete customised design environment for a broad range of development applications including: Xilinx MicroBlaze soft processor, DSP and industrial systems, datacommunications, telecommunications and universal prototyping

To provide customers with immediate availability to this technology, Nu Horizons has partnered with online educational resource company TechOnLine to create a virtual lab environment - enabling free evaluation of the Xilinx Spartan-3 FPGA via the Internet using Nu Horizons' XC3S2000 development platform.

"Our internal engineering staff has worked closely with Xilinx to build two low cost platforms that showcase Xilinx's leading edge FPGA products", explains Athar Zafar, Vice President of Global Engineering for Nu Horizons.

"By placing the XC3S2000 FPGA in an online evaluation and development environment, we're offering engineers early design access, as well as eliminating the exploratory costs typically involved with testing new technology".