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Computer company Sun Microsystems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) and FPGA
company Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have announced the availability
of an OpenSparc development platform based on Sparc processor from
Texas Instruments and a Virtex-5 FPGA from Xilinx.
The platform is aimed at customers developing applications for
supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical markets, aerospace
& defense, and storage and networking, Xilinx said in a statement.
Computer company Sun Microsystems Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) and FPGA
company Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.) have announced the availability
of an OpenSparc development platform based on Sparc processor from
Texas Instruments and a Virtex-5 FPGA from Xilinx.
The platform is aimed at customers developing applications for
supercomputers, industrial, scientific and medical markets, aerospace
& defense, and storage and networking, Xilinx said in a statement.
"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,"
said Mike Knudsen, vice president, business development and marketing
for Sun's microelectronics business unit, in the same statement. It is
thought that Knudsen was referring to processors that support multiple
threads of computation on a single chip as in chip-multi-threading
(CMT) but the acronym was not expanded.
"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," said
James Hoe, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at Carnegie Mellon University, in the same statement.
The platform includes a 32-thread UltraSparc processor from Texas
Instruments combined with a 65-nm Virtex-5 FPGA from Xilinx, and is
intended for R&D around computer architecture, logic design,
compiler techniques and parallel programming. The programmable
architecture of the platform allows multiple design iterations.
The kit includes the ML505-V5110T board plus a 1-Gbyte compact
flash card, a 256-Mbyte DRAM module in SODIMM form, a SATA cable, a USB
programming cable, a DVI to VGA adapter and a 6A power supply.
"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," said Ivo Bolsens, chief technology officer for
Xilinx, the same statement.
Read the original article: http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210600141
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