GiDEL Ships PROCStar II Development
System Featuring Industry’s Largest & fastest FPGA from Altera
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Ayyala, Israel, Mar 8, 2005 – GiDEL Ltd, an Altera
Corporation development kit partner, today announced the immediate
availability of 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.
“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. 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™ 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.
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