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VIRTEX-4 PMC EXPANSION CARD ACCELERATES SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS
Dateline: April 20, 2006 ... Reno, NV
Contact Name: Pierrick Vulliez
Contact Phone: 775-830-2059
Contact Fax: 775-624-2501
E-mail: info@4dsp.com
Web Address: http://www.4dsp.com/FM480.htm
RENO, NV - April 20, 2006 - 4DSP Inc, a leader for innovation in
reconfigurable computing and DSP applications, released the
FM480, a new PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) based on the latest Virtex-
4 FPGA technology from Xilinx. The FM480 field trials have shown
exceptional performances and robustness. The first application
developed for the FM480 was a 2-D Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)
based on the IEEE-754 compliant floating point FFT core from
4DSP.
"It was thrilling to see that the FM480, employing a mid-
size Virtex-4 FPGA could compute an FFT three times faster than a
Dual Intel Xeon processor blade while consuming a third of the
power," says Pierrick Vulliez, 4DSP's CTO. "So far, FPGAs have
mainly been employed in the world of fixed point arithmetic but
with the right board architecture and off the shelf Intellectual
Property cores, FPGA based products like the FM480 become more
than viable alternatives to bulky processor blades. It takes the
world of computing one step higher."
Optionally conduction cooled, the FM480 PMC expansion card comes
with large SRAM and DRAM resources and ultra-fast DMA engines,
making it the ideal candidate as a co-processor unit for
demanding signal processing algorithms. With several Front Panel
I/O modules such as Camera Link, Front Panel Data Port (FPDP) and
Analog to Digital Converters, it offers a flexible integration
platform for a wide range of applications. The FM480 has already
been shipped to several customers and current developments
include a real time JPEG2000 compression implementation in the
Virtex-4 device. Further details can be accessed by visiting the
product page at http://www.4dsp.com/FM480.htm
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