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he Xilinx® Alliance Program is a worldwide ecosystem of qualified companies that collaborate with Xilinx to further the development of All Programmable technologies. Xilinx has built this ecosystem, leveraging open platforms and standards, to meet customer needs and is committed to its long-term success. Alliance members—including IP providers, EDA vendors, embedded software providers, system integrators and hardware suppliers—help accelerate your design productivity while minimizing risk. Here are some highlights.
ALPHA DATA RELEASES XILINX ULTRASCALE BOARD FOR FPGA ACCELERATION Certified Alliance Member Alpha Data has collaborated with Xilinx to provide one of the very first UltraScale™ FPGAs in a commercially available product suitable for largescale deployment. The company’s catalog of off-the-shelf boards now includes Xilinx’s 20-nanometer Kintex® UltraScale devices, enabling a new class of accelerator cards. Alpha Data’s ADM-PCIE-KU3 is a high-performance, reconfigurable, half-length, low-profile, x16 PCIe® form-factor board based on the Xilinx Kintex UltraScale KU060 ASICclass FPGAs. 68
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Users can create applications for the board using the Vivado® Design Suite, with high-level synthesis (HLS) and OpenCL. Customers are provided with IP and reference designs for rapid development. The board’s features can be demonstrated and evaluated right out of the box in Windows or Linux systems: Gen3 PCIe/DMA, DDR3, self-test, board control/status and more. The ADM-PCIE-KU3 is the latest in the highly successful line of Alpha Data’s Xilinx FPGA-centric products, the result of more than a decade of experience and partnership with Xilinx. The ADM-PCIE-KU3 features 16 Gbytes in two independent channels of DDR3-1600 ECC memory capable of 25-Gbyte/second bandwidth. The product has dual QSFP+ ports supporting
10G/40G Ethernet, dual SATA connections, voltage/temperature/current control and monitoring, and a passive air-cooled heat sink, all on a small 6.6 x 3.8-inch PCIe board. The ADM-PCIE-KU3 is competitively priced and is available for order immediately. It is currently offered with the Kintex UltraScale KU060-2 ES device, and will be available with KU060-2 production silicon from mid-2015. The board ships with a comprehensive software development kit (SDK), including example designs and an evaluation of the PCIe/DMA IP core. Additional IP and full PCIe/DMA cores are available to license. Further product details and ordering options for the ADM-PCIE-KU3 are available at http://www.alpha-data.com/ku3. Fourth Quarter 2014