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ProDesign Releases CHIPit Copper Edition at the 43rd DAC; New Member of CHIPit High-Speed ASIC Prototyping Systems Provides Highest Flexibility and Best Price Performance Ratio
Business Wire, July 24, 2006
MUNICH, Germany & SAN FRANCISCO -- ProDesign, leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC verification platforms, today announced the launch of the CHIPit Copper Edition at DAC 2006 (San Francisco, 24-28 July).
The CHIPit Copper Edition is designed for customers needing a flexible, cost-effective, high-speed verification solution. Like all CHIPit products, the new release shortens time to market by eliminating respins and by providing early prototypes for software development. CHIPit Copper is primarily for pre-silicon software and firmware development, where several systems are needed to work in parallel.
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The CHIPit Copper Edition is scalable from 2 to 4 FPGAs to handle ASIC designs from 2M to 4M ASIC gates. It is equipped with up to 8 extension board sections with as many as 2580 free user I/Os to adapt to additional CHIPit or user-specific extension boards. The board also offers up to 4 SO-DIMM card slots and optional on-board SSRAM memories. The system can run stand-alone and can easily be configured by software with SD card or Ethernet interface.
"We created the CHIPit Copper Edition, to be a very easy-to-use, low-priced prototyping system for firmware and software developers who need several prototypes as early as possible. Over the six generations of ProDesign ASIC prototyping systems, we have created a solution with maximum flexibility, speed and price-performance ratio," said Heiko Mauersberger, CTO of ProDesign.
Availability
CHIPit Copper Edition will be available in October 2006.
About ProDesign
The privately held company was founded in 1981 and has over 80 employees, with various facilities for research, design, and sales in Germany, France and the U.S. ProDesign has more than twenty-four years of experience as a service provider and manufacturer in the electronics industry. The company's products and services include the 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 please visit: http://www.uchipit.com.
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