Nallatech Announces Availability of Latest Analog Data Capture and FPGA Processing PMC/XMC

Nallatech, a leading supplier of high-performance COTS FPGA processing solutions, today announced their latest PMC/XMC product offering. The new XMC-240 FPGA processing and analog input PMC/XMC mezzanine is designed to meet the signal processing needs of modern signal intelligence, software defined radio and radar applications. The XMC-240 is the latest product to be introduced to the highly successful Nallatech REVX Series of rugged embedded processing solutions.

The XMC-240 features four channels of analog input that can sample analog signals at up to 250 MSPS with 14 bits resolution. These are coupled directly to a Xilinx Virtex-5 SX95T FPGA for the implementation of high performance DSP applications to process the data captured from the A/D converters. The XMC-240 has comprehensive clock management capabilities and offers either on-board clocking or external clock input.

The XMC-240 is also supported by comprehensive Development Kits available for both Linux and Wind River VxWorks. These include a Software Development Kit (SDK) with all necessary software drivers and libraries. They also include an FPGA Development Kit (FDK), with FPGA cores supplied to interface to FPGA peripherals including memories, data interfaces and analog interfaces.

First customer shipment of the new XMC-240 took place in July 2009 to a major defense contractor. Nallatech is now taking XMC-240 orders for Fall 2009 delivery. For further information, visit www.nallatech.com, or call (805) 383-8997 (North America) or +44 1236 789 567 (Europe).

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Nallatech to Support and Deliver FPGA Product for Intel QuickPath Interconnect (QPI)

Nallatech is the first FPGA system vendor to work with Intel to use the Intel® QuickPath interconnect for the development of socket filler solutions

Nallatech, the domain expert in high-performance FPGA computing solutions, today announced that it is the first FPGA system vendor to sign up to deploy product using the Intel® QuickPath interconnect. The Intel QuickPath interconnect is Intel’s new high-speed system interconnect for servers and high-end work stations. Nallatech will use the Intel QuickPath interconnect to bring to market the industry’s first FPGA-based socket filler solutions based on this new technology for high performance computing applications.

The need for high bandwidth and low latency interconnections is growing rapidly as server deployed FPGA accelerated solutions become a reality. The Intel QuickPath interconnect creates a very high bandwidth, low latency and cache-coherent fabric between one or more multi-core CPUs. It will be used to connect microprocessors and Nallatech FPGA socket filler accelerators. This architecture reduces processing bottlenecks subsequently improving performance of a variety of high performance computing applications, including those in the financial and defense sectors.

“We are delighted to reach this stage of collaboration with Intel. Future heterogeneous computing architectures are the advent of acceleration technologies” said Craig Petrie, Product Manager at Nallatech. “Intel is supporting this technology transition with the QuickPath interconnect and we are developing solutions to allow users to mix microprocessors and accelerators to address many diverse applications”.

“Moving to high-speed point-to-point interconnects is the next evolution in providing phenomenal bandwidth to processing cores and spreading memory across the system,” said Lorie Wigle, director of technology initiatives and software strategy at Intel. “Intel has worked with a number of different players in the ecosystem to ready the QuickPath architecture for deployment. Nallatech agreeing to distribute products emphasizes the broad industry support for the Intel QuickPath interconnect.”

Nallatech already offers support for Intel’s current Front Side Bus (FSB) architecture and supporting Intel QuickAssist Accelerator Abstraction Layer with the FSB-Expansion and FSB-Compute family of Xilinx FPGA accelerators. Nallatech’s commitment to develop and deliver Intel QuickPath interconnect-based FPGA accelerators significantly strengthens the relationship between the two companies and provides customers with a long term roadmap of accelerator products.


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