Impulse C Compiler for Nallatech’s H100 FPGA Accelerators

Nallatech and Impulse announced the availability of the Impulse C compiler for the Nallatech H100 series of FPGA accelerator products. Nallatech’s H100 series increased performance density and reduced power consumption. Used in conjunction with the Nallatech H100 series C-to-Executable tool flow, designers are able to create massively parallel applications targeting the latest FPGA hardware platforms from Nallatech.

Brian Durwood, CEO of Impulse:

Impulse is pleased to announce support for the Nallatech H100 series of FPGA products providing users with a platform to quickly experiment with alternate algorithm configurations that can be scaled up as required…

We believe that this modular and reconfigurable approach to processing matches the key requirements of finance, bioinformatics, and general high-bandwidth processing markets…

The Impulse CoDeveloper tools provide users with a familiar, easy-to-use design environment for creating high-performance FPGA accelerator applications using ANSI-C. The Impulse tools allow FPGA algorithms to be developed and debugged using popular C/C++ development environments, including Microsoft Visual Studio and GCC-based tools. The CoDeveloper software-to-hardware compiler translates C-language processes to low-level FPGA-hardware, while optimizing the generated logic and identifying opportunities for parallelism. The compiler analyzes untimed C code and schedules multiple statements and operations into single-clock instruction stages. CoDeveloper unrolls loops and generates loop pipelines to exploit the extreme levels of parallelism possible in an FPGA.

Craig Anderson, CEO of Nallatech, said:

We are delighted to announce support for the Impulse C design tools as part of the Nallatech H100 series product family…

Impulse is recognized as one of the leading suppliers of C-based design tools providing a reliable, easy-to-use path from high-level software algorithms onto FPGA-accelerated platforms. As well as offering customers a choice of C compilers, the Nallatech-Impulse relationship validates the demand for accelerated processing capabilities and further strengthens the FPGA ecosystem for high performance computing users…

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