ASIC Prototyping Systems - CHIPit - Pro Design

Pro Design announced (Mei 2007) the launch of its CHIPit V5 series, the next gen of its CHIPit product family. The new CHIPit High-Speed ASIC Prototyping Systems is based on the Xilinx Virtex-5 LX330 FPGA. CHIPit ASIC Prototyping Systems offers the better performance, larger capacity and flexibility.

Gunnar Scholl, ProDesign, said:

Our new CHIPit Copper Edition V5 provides many significant new features. In addition to the higher number of I/Os, the larger capacity, and better performance, we also significantly improved our software capabilities in design, system handling and debugging environment. With this new CHIPit generation we are providing users the most elegant and easy to use ASIC Prototyping system on the market today…

The CHIPit Copper Edition V5 ASIC Prototyping Systems is targeted to developers who need flexibility in a cost-effective high-speed verification solution. The new release shortens the time to market dramatically by eliminating costly respins and providing early prototypes for developers.

About CHIPit line of ASIC Prototyping platforms

The CHIPit line of ASIC Prototyping platforms provide verification and validation throughout the SoC and ASIC project life cycle. Based on the latest FPGA technologies and an integrated set of tools with debug capabilities the modular CHIPit platforms give design engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation, and assist in hardware/software Co-verification to reduce the verification time dramatically.

CHIPit offers the speed as well as the capacity, simulator integration and debugging capabilities that gives developers the flexibility to verify and validate the design in new ways which are not possible using logic simulation or even slower speed „mainframe“ emulators.

The system is is available with 1 to 6 Xilinx Virtex-5 LX330 FPGAs. Depending on the configuration, the system handles ASIC design capacities up to 8 M ASIC gates. It is equipped with up to 8 extension board sections with up to 2580 free user I/Os to adapt to additional standard CHIPit ASIC Prototyping Systems 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 is easily configured by software with an SD card or the Ethernet interface.

More info: Pro Design - CHIPit ASIC Prototyping Systems