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At the International Conference for Field Programmable Logic and Applications
today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. unveiled a feature-rich,
high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform
provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible
OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation
applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial,
scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
"Our collaboration with industry leaders such as Xilinx will continue to drive
the momentum and expansion of the UltraSPARC ecosystem," said Mike Knudsen,
vice president, business development and marketing for Sun's Microelectronics
unit. "The microprocessor industry is steadily shifting towards CMT
architectures, and this new OpenSPARC FPGA evaluation platform puts us in a
prime position to enable faster time-to-market for our customers."
At the International Conference for Field Programmable Logic and Applications
today, Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. unveiled a feature-rich,
high-performance programmable OpenSPARC evaluation platform. The platform
provides academic researchers and hardware developers with a flexible
OpenSPARC-based platform to create, customize and deploy next-generation
applications for a broad set of end markets including supercomputers, industrial,
scientific and medical (ISM), aerospace & defense, and storage and networking.
"Our collaboration with industry leaders such as Xilinx will continue to drive
the momentum and expansion of the UltraSPARC ecosystem," said Mike Knudsen,
vice president, business development and marketing for Sun's Microelectronics
unit. "The microprocessor industry is steadily shifting towards CMT
architectures, and this new OpenSPARC FPGA evaluation platform puts us in a
prime position to enable faster time-to-market for our customers."
"The OpenSPARC Evaluation Platform will help microprocessor pedagogy to
leap out of the textbook into the students' hands" said James. C. Hoe,
associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon
University. "This is a powerful enabling asset in teaching and research,
especially at a time when we are striving to understand how to best deploy
and leverage parallelism in future microprocessor systems."
Based on the power of an open-sourced 32-thread UltraSPARC T1 processor
and combined with the high-performance Xilinx 65nm Virtex-5 FPGA technology,
the platform will provide a foundation for innovation across a range of
disciplines including; computer architecture, logic design, compiler
techniques and parallel programming. Based on its programmable architecture,
the platform allows multiple design iterations providing faster time- to-market,
greater flexibility and reduced complexity.
"Today's designs demand more processing power, higher reliability, and
increased application intelligence," said Ivo Bolsens, chief technology
officer for Xilinx. "Combining Sun's multithreading processing technology
with our industry-leading silicon and design tools provides a solid
platform for academics and developers to build and test novel ideas in
hardware and software design."
University Donation Program Proliferates Adoption
Sun and Xilinx also announced today the development of a joint
University donation program, facilitated through the OpenSPARC
University Program, whereby academic professors can apply for grants to
help kick-start curricula and university research programs. Applications
are specifically encouraged for the development of high-performance,
multi-thread and low-power computing applications. For more information,
visit www.opensparc.net/edu/university-program.html.
Availability
The Sun and Xilinx-based OpenSPARC FPGA development platform is
immediately available through Digilent.
Visit www.digilentinc.com/v50sdk to order.
OpenSPARC Evaluation Platform
The kit includes the Xilinx ML505 FPGA board with the large Virtex 5 - V5LX110T FPGA.
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