System Solutions
Scalable, Flexible Architecture
Our ASIC prototyping solutions are marketed under the following family of desktop/rack-mountable appliances: xLITE™, xPRESS™ and xSERV™. All products offered here are built on Altera Stratix IV FPGA and provide ASIC gates ranging from 15 to 240 million usable gates.
Target Application
Depending on the type of customer application & capacity needs, one can pick the product family of interest. Please see table below:
| Product Family | Max Capacity (MG) | Target Application |
|---|---|---|
| xLITE | 15 | USB Controllers, Peripherals, Solid State Controllers |
| xPRESS | 30, 60 | Chipsets, Consumer video, Encryption & Decryption, Security, High-end controllers, Consumer embedded SoC |
| xSERV | 120, 240 | Processors, Networking, Graphics chip |
Memory
Every Appliance comes with a dedicated asynchronous SRAM. Except for xLITE family, all Appliances come with builtin support for DDR3 memory.
Clocking & Trigger Scheme
Each Appliance provides a number of global input and output clocks, depending on the configuration. The clocks are well buffered to offer low-skew.
Appliance Matrix
All products come bundled with Integrated Debug Environment (IDE) software which includes Altera Quartus II DKE (Development Kit Edition, no IP-based suite) software. xPRESS and xSERV product family have an optional IRIS partitioning tool. xSERV family offers multi-user support.
| xLITE | xPRESS | xSERV | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Capacity (MG) | 15 | 30 | 60 | 120 | 240 |
| Appliance Size | 2 U | 2 U | 2 U | 4 U | 8 U |
| FPGA Type, No. | SE 820, 1 | SE 820, 2 | SE 820, 4 | SE 820, 8 | SE 820, 16 |
| No. of Daughter Cards | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 |
| No. of Users/ system | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| CLK, RST, Trigger | 4 CLK IN, 4 CLK OUT, 4 RST IN, 4 TR OUT |
2 CLK IN, 2 CLK OUT, 1 RST IN | 4 CLK IN, 4 CLK OUT, 2 RST IN | 8 CLK IN, 8 CLK OUT, 4 RST IN | 8 CLK IN, 8 CLK OUT, 4 RST IN |
| SRAM | 2MB | 4MB | 8MB | 16MB | 32MB |
| DDR 2/3 Support | Daughter card only | Builtin, upto 8GB DDR 3 SODIMM | Builtin, upto 16GB DDR 3 SODIMM | Builtin, upto 32GB DDR 3 SODIMM | Builtin, upto 64GB DDR 3 SODIMM |
| Host Interface | USB | PCIe x8, USB | PCIe x8, USB | 560 Gbps PCIe Back- plane | 560 Gbps PCIe Back- plane |
| Control Processor | via Daughter card | via Daughter card | via Daughter card | Dual Multi- Core | Dual Multi- Core |
| Software | IDE | IDE | IDE | IDE | IDE |