When a caller uses speech recognition on his/her mobile phone, the application is running mostly in the cloud. Functions such as data input using speech recognition requires large amounts of memory to make the capability seamless and effective. Providing this functionality affects the architecture of the mobile device and of the cloud. Compute servers in the massive data centers run by Amazon, Google, and Facebook are vastly different than those in data centers a decade ago. These new centers rely on many powerful processors in parallel, all computing different elements of the same task. These processors require large amounts of data stored in DRAM and flash in front of large hard drive farms to be efficient.
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Achronix Announces PCI-SIG® Compliance for Hardened PCI Express on Speedster22i FPGAs
Santa Clara, Calif., May 6, 2014 – Achronix Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its 22nm Speedster22i devices have achieved PCI-SIG® compliance with the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 Specification for x8 lanes. The Speedster22i devices successfully passed the PCI-SIG Compliance and Interoperability Tests at the PCI-SIG workshop and are now included in the PCI-SIG integrators list. Based on Intel’s 22nm Tri-gate technology, Speedster22i devices are the only FPGAs shipping today that contain a wide range of embedded hard IP – including PCI Express Gen3 with integrated DMA Engine, DDR3, 100G Ethernet and Interlaken.
Hardening key interface IP in the Speedster22i devices frees up a substantial portion of the programmable logic fabric, increasing the effective capacity of the FPGA and reducing the overall power consumption. Additionally the embedded hard IP in Speedster22i HD FPGAs eliminates the cost of purchasing, integrating, closing timing and testing the functions that are required when soft IP is used. The PCI Express logic cores used in Speedster22i devices support Gen 1, 2 and 3 in x1, x4 and x8 configurations and are supplied by Northwest Logic. Speedster22i HD devices are the only FPGAs with an integrated DMA engine hardened as part of the PCI Express core. This provides additional cost, performance and power advantages vs. a soft implementation.
“We embedded the Northwest Logic PCI Express IP because it is an industry-leading, silicon-proven solution,” said Steve Mensor, Vice President of Marketing at Achronix. “Our customers require fully proven functional solutions and that’s what we are delivering with the embedded IP in our 22nm Speedster22i devices.”
“Our PCI Express IP has been successfully deployed in hundreds of applications in both hard and soft implementations,” said Brian Daellenbach, President, Northwest Logic. “We are excited to see our IP play a role in the Speedster22i success story.”
The Speedster22i HD1000 and HD680 devices are shipping today and have the following embedded hard IP: PCIe Gen3 x8 controllers, DDR 2/3 controllers, 10/40/100G Ethernet controllers and 12x10G Interlaken controllers. A video demonstration of the Speedster22i hardened PCI Express IP is available at https://www.achronix.com/products/videos/pci-express-demo.html.
About Achronix Semiconductor Corporation
Achronix is a privately held fabless corporation based in Santa Clara, California. Achronix builds application targeted field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) built on Intel’s (NASDAQ:INTC) process technology. Achronix ACE design tools include integrated support for Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) Synplify Pro. Achronix has sales offices and representatives in the United States, Europe, and China, and has a research and design office in Bangalore, India. Find out more at https://www.achronix.com.
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DINI Group Verifies Compatibility of Northwest Logic’s PCI Express Cores with Virtex-7 ASIC Prototyping Platforms
April 29, 2014 – Northwest Logic and DINI Group announced today that Northwest Logic’s PCI Express® (PCIe®) 3.0 solution, including the Expresso 3.0 Core (PCI Express 3.0 Controller Core) has been validated on DINI Group’s 1, 2, and 4-FPGA ASIC prototyping platforms. This validation was done with 4 lanes running at 5 Gbit/s SERDES rates.
“DINI Group continues to use a variety of Northwest Logic cores to validate our ASIC prototyping platforms.” said Brian Poladian, Senior Engineer at Dini Group, “Northwest Logic provides proven, high-performance solutions that integrate effortlessly into our platforms. We know that when we use IP from Northwest Logic we’ll be able to focus our efforts on prototyping the design rather than wasting time with someone else’s buggy IP.”
DINI Group is the market leader in FPGA-based ASIC prototyping hardware and is currently shipping ASIC prototyping platforms based on Xilinx and Altera FPGAs. The highlight of current generation is the Xilinx Virtex7-based DNV7F4A, which contains four 7V2000T FPGAs. This revolutionary stacked-silicon FPGA is the largest shipping today and dramatically eases the difficult task of logic partitioning. The DNV7F4A is capable of prototyping 56 million ASIC gates. It can also be seamlessly stacked 4 times to support ASIC gate counts in excess of 200 million.
“DINI Group’s FPGA platforms which support 10s of millions of ASIC gates enable developers to effectively prototype large ASIC designs.” said Northwest Logic’s president, Brian Daellenbach. “We are pleased that DINI Group trusts and continues to use our IP to help validate their platforms. This pre-validation ensures that developers will be able to migrate their PCI Express based designs to these platforms quickly and effectively.”
Northwest Logic provides a complete PCI Express Solution. This solution includes Northwest Logic’s high-performance, easy-to-use, silicon-proven Expresso 3.0/2.1/1.1 Cores for PCI Express, DMA Back-End Core which provides high-performance scatter-gather DMA engines, Drivers (Linux & Windows) and Application software. For a complete system design Northwest Logic optionally provides its high-performance DDR4/3/DDR2/1, LPDDR4/3/2/1 SDRAM and HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/11 Memory Controller Cores and add‐on cores (AXI/AHB, Multi-Port, Reorder, etc.). These solutions are available separately or as a single, fully integrated solution.
About DINI Group
DINI Group is an established leader in large, FPGA-based boards, critical IP, and systems. DINI Group FPGA boards are used in large quantities for ASIC and SOC prototyping, low-latency trading, and high performance computing. From their corporate campus in La Jolla, California, DINI Group employees have supplied over twelve billion ASIC gates.
About Northwest Logic
Northwest Logic, founded in 1995 and located in Beaverton, Oregon, provides high-performance, silicon-proven, easy-to-use IP cores including high-performance PCI Express solution (PCI Express 3.0, 2.1 and 1.1 cores and drivers), Memory Interface Solution (DDR4/3/2, LPDDR4/3/2 SDRAM; HBM, MRAM, RLDRAM 3/II), and MIPI Solution (CSI-2, DSI). These solutions support a full range of platforms including ASICs, Structured ASICs and FPGAs. For additional information, visit www.nwlogic.com.
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