Eureka Technology Simplifies PCI Express System Development with Low-Cost PCI Express Development Kit.LOS ALTOS, Calif. -- Eureka Technology Inc., a leading intellectual property (IP) core provider, today announces the availability of the low cost PCI Express development kit, a complete PCI Express development system with PCI Express adapter board, IP core, application logic design, device drivers and sample application software. The development board is a PCI Express adapter card with PX1011A PCI Express PHY chip from Philips Semiconductor, Xilinx Spartan3 FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. , and various on board I/O devices. Both the development board and the Eureka PCI Express IP core passed all PCI-SIG compliant and interoperability tests. Each development board is shipped with Eureka's PCI Express IP core fully integrated into the FPGA, sample application logic, device driver, and demonstration software. The device driver and application software supports Windows XP operating systems. "The availability of the PCI Express development kit is a major step in lowering the barrier to PCI Express system design," said Simon Lau, president of Eureka Technology. "Use of this development kit allows our customers to co-develop the logic hardware, software, and system level of PCI Express system together." "Our goal is to ensure that the PXPIPE interface and PX1011A PCI Express PHY can be deployed in PCI Express system rapidly. The deployment of Eureka's PCI Express development board validates our goal and demonstrates the stability of the PXPIPE interface," said Dhwani Vyas, general manager, interface product line, Philips Semiconductors. The PCI Express development board is priced at $2,399. For ordering and information about the PCI Express development board, please visit http://www.eurekatech.com/products/pci/pcie_resource.htm About Eureka Technology Eureka Technology Inc. is a leading intellectual property (IP) provider for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. , FPGA and system designers. The company specializes in the integration and customization of standard IP core to meet customer requirements. Eureka offers a wide range of silicon proven system core logic and peripheral function cores for different CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. and peripheral bus standards including PowerPC(TM), ARM(TM), MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. (TM), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). (TM), PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. (TM), PCI Express(TM), Cardbus(TM), SDR/DDR SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. , SD memory(TM), SDIO See SDIO card. (TM), CompactFlash(TM) and PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. (TM). These IP cores are designed to improve the design time-to-market, eliminate design risks, and reduce development costs for System-on-chip (SoC) designs. Located in Silicon Valley, California, Eureka Technology has pioneered the use of IP cores as a standard methodology in IC design and has licensed hundreds of IP cores to many leading companies in the semiconductor and electronic industries. With customer base in the US, Europe, Korea, Japan and other parts of Asia, the company has built many long-term business relationships with its customers after their initial successes. Additional information is available at http://www.eurekatech.com or by email to info@eurekatech.com. Eureka Technology and its logo are trademarks of Eureka Technology Inc. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners. |
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