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Companies demonstrate multi-core emulator based on Virtex(R)-5 at
grand opening of Advanced Research & Teaching Facility for Embedded
System Design at Beijing University of Technology
SAN JOSE, Calif. and BEIJING, May 21 /PRNewswire/ --
Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq: XLNX) and BEEcube Inc. will jointly unveil a
high-performance development environment for multi-core UltraSPARC CMT
(chip multi-threaded) processors that reduces the time and effort
required to design systems using the SPARC architecture. The companies
will demonstrate the development system for the first time at this
week's grand opening of an Advanced Research & Teaching Facility
for Embedded System Design in Beijing, a joint venture between Beijing
University of Technology (BJUT), the Chinese Ministry of Education
(MOE) and Xilinx University Program (XUP), to view press release (http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-21-2009/0005031258&EDATE=)
The
new BEEcube SoC development platform is built upon BEEcube's
third-generation, large-scale multi-core processor BEE3(TM) emulator
and takes full advantage of the performance and flexibility of Xilinx'
flagship Virtex(R)-5 FPGAs. The platform enables researchers and
hardware architects to quickly experiment with large scale, multi-core,
multi-threaded FPGA implementations of UltraSPARC CMT processors for a
broad set of end-markets including computing, industrial, scientific,
medical, aerospace and defense, storage and networking.
Sun
Microsystems' UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 microprocessors are the
first 64-bit microprocessors available as an open source design and are
freely available from the OpenSPARC website, http://www.beecube.com/opensparc.
"The
newest emulation technology from BEEcube, powered by high performance
Virtex-5 FPGAs, delivers a development platform that will be a great
asset to designers who wish to evaluate the capabilities of the SPARC
CMT architecture in a programmable device," said
Patrick Lysaght,
senior director for the Xilinx University Program and Xilinx Research
Labs. "We're pleased that Xilinx technology is playing an important
role in expanding the ecosystem for this important and popular open
source processor core."
"This exciting collaboration
between Xilinx, Sun, and BEEcube leverages our history of proven ASIC
prototyping methodology from UC Berkeley and BEEcube, and brings it to
the new world of multicore SoCs," said
Robert Brodersen,
professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley and
chairman of BEEcube. "This new advance enables system architects using
the SPARC CMT architecture to rapidly explore design trade-offs for
cost/power/performance optimizations."
"The BEE3 hardware
platform, based on Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA technology, significantly
expands the reach of Sun's Chip Multithreading SPARC architecture for
the OpenSPARC community, which includes academics, researchers, and
developers throughout the world," said
Shrenik Mehta,
senior director for front-end tools and OpenSPARC at Sun Microsystems.
"The BEE3 platform provides users the ability to prototype and build
significantly larger multi-core designs based on Sun's industry-leading
CMT technology."
A single BEE3 module is capable of
emulating either a quad-core 16-thread or two dual-core 8-thread
UltraSPARC T1 processors, running on a binary-compatible
OpenSolaris(TM) or Ubuntu Linux operating system. Each BEE3 module is
designed using the latest Virtex-5 FPGAs. Existing users have a
migration path from the Virtex-5 OpenSPARC single-FPGA Evaluation
Platform to the new BEE3 quad-FPGA scalable computing platform.
Altogether, the new BEEcube development system offers researchers and
hardware architects six times more FPGA logic capacity, 64 times larger
DRAM capacity, and support for PCI Express x8 and 10-Gigabit Ethernet
interfaces.
Availability
The BEE3-based OpenSPARC FPGA development platform is immediately available through BEEcube. Please visit http://www.beecube.com/opensparc
for ordering information. University discounts and software donations
are available through the Xilinx University Program and BEEcube
Academic Discount program.
About BEEcube
Leveraging
advanced technology developed over 10 years at Berkeley Wireless
Research Center in the University of California at Berkeley, BEEcube is
at the forefront of technological and market innovation within the
FPGA-based computing, modeling, and simulation acceleration business.
BEEcube offers next generation FPGA based computing platforms, advanced
high level programming integrated design environment, and design
services for custom application development and implementation in
silicon. Applications of BEEcube solutions include MIMO wireless
communications, video signal processing, multi-core system-on-chip
development, and computational biology. The latest BEE3 system
solutions have been deployed worldwide in US, Canada, UK, Germany,
Spain, Japan, and China. To learn more about BEEcube, please visit the
company's website at www.BEEcube.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx is the worldwide leader in complete programmable logic solutions. For more information, visit http://www.xilinx.com.
XILINX,
the Xilinx Logo, Virtex, and other designated brands included herein
are trademarks of Xilinx in the United States and other countries. All
other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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