ProDesign CHIPit Platinum V4 Sets Standard for High-Speed Verification; Second Generation of High-End ASIC Prototyping System Based on Latest Virtex 4 FPGA Technology.MUNICH, Germany & SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- ProDesign today released the latest version of CHIPit(R) Platinum featuring an enhanced system architecture based on latest Xilinx Virtex4 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. technology, new debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. features and new software for system design implementation. CHIPit Platinum V4 is the industry's first 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. prototyping system to handle up to 21 Xilinx Virtex4 FPGAs with a flexible programmable connection topology for a large number of different configurations. This scalable system can be configured with 3 to 21 Xilinx Virtex4 FPGAs (XC4VLX VLX Visual Language of Experimentation (modeling language) 100/160/200) for designs from 2.3-20 million ASIC gates. A patented 3D switching technology allows for architectural trade-off optimizations with different design structures of the SoC design to achieve highest performance up to 200MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . As soon as more than two FPGAs are necessary for verification, the system's connection topology can be changed in software at any time -- which is a vital requirement with regard to the re-usability of the system for other projects. CHIPit Platinum V4 features new debugging capabilities including host-controlled and separate interfaces as well as an enhanced debugging and system handling software package. CHIPit Platinum V4 gives ASIC & SoC design and verification engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance and to verify and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. their ASIC designs. This very cost-effective and flexible solution for all stages of hardware-assisted verification shortens the time to market by eliminating costly respins and by providing an early prototype for the software development. Availability CHIPit Platinum V4 is available immediately. About ProDesign Founded in 1981 and privately held, ProDesign has over 80 employees, with facilities for research, design, and sales in Germany, France and the U.S. The company's CHIPit family of hardware-assisted verification tools to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation, and assist in hardware/software co-development and co-verification to reduce the verification time dramatically. For more information about the company's prototyping products, please visit: http://www.uchipit.com. ProDesign and CHIPit are registered trademarks of ProDesign Electronics Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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