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SoC prototyping system includes 300 M gates

September 8, 2020 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

S2C introduces the new Quad 10M Prodigy Logic System equipped with four Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGA devices. Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGA is the world’s largest capacity FPGA device with 10.2M Logic Elements, 253Mb M20K memory, and 3,456 DSP blocks. Quad 10M Prodigy Logic System is an astounding 300 million equivalent ASIC gate prototyping solution with attractive cost-per-gate pricing.

Large capacity and scalability with 40.8M Logic Elements, 1,012Mb memory and 13,824 DSP blocks
4,608 high-performance I/Os for inter FPGA connections and daughter cards
160 high-speed transceivers that can run up to 16Gbps
Compatible with 90+ Prodigy Prototype Ready IPs
Integrated Multi-Debug Module
Compact, sleek, all-in-one chassis for clean, portable, and well-organized work environment

The increasing scale of SoC design demands a greater FPGA prototyping capacity in pre-silicon verifications. The Quad 10M Prodigy Logic System is equipped with four Intel 10M FPGA devices in a single chassis with unified power and control module. The newly designed control module has built-in debug hardware to enable high-performance deep trace capability for multiple FPGAs without extra peripherals. Enhanced partitioning tools can perform automatic intra-FPGA partition with DIB insertion between 10M dies and inter-FPGA partition using pin multiplexing over multiple FPGAs. The elegant systems design creates the fusion of complexity and easy-to-use.

The Quad 10M Prodigy Logic Systems work seamlessly with other Prodigy prototyping components such as Prodigy Player Pro software, Prodigy Multi-Debug Module and Prodigy ProtoBridge to provide unrivaled configuration, partitioning, deep-trace debug and co-modeling capabilities.

The Quad 10M Prodigy Logic System is available for purchase now.

FPGA-based prototyping systems employ Xilinx Virtex UltraScale+ chips

July 8, 2020 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

S2C has announced the availability of its new Prodigy S7 Series Logic Systems equipped with Xilinx’s Virtex UltraScale+™ FPGA devices. The Prodigy S7 is S2C’s 7th generation prototyping system designed and optimized for maximum performance and ease-of-use. With high DSP-to-logic and high memory-to-logic ratio, this family is the ideal platform for prototyping high-speed connectivity and computation-intensive applications. The first two members in the S7 series are the Prodigy S7-9P and Prodigy™ S7-13P.

S7-9P and S7-13P Logic System Highlights:

Supports 25Gbps transceivers
Up to 3.78M system logic cells, 455Mb internal memory, and 12,288 DSP slices
676 high-performance I/Os and 48 GTY transceivers
4x QSFP28 optical interfaces, each supporting 100G applications
Supports MIPI and x8 PCIe Gen4 / x8 PCIe Gen3 endpoint
Compatible with 90+ off-the-shelf S2C daughter cards
Abundant remote management capability

Today’s applications demand ever higher I/O throughputs as well as the need to interface with a variety of new standards. The Prodigy S7-9P and S7-13P Logic Systems are designed to assure highest signal integrity to support 25 Gbps transceivers and 1.4 Gbps general-purpose I/Os. The S7-9P and S7-13P are also equipped with an FMC connector to easily interface with 3rd party daughter cards, such as MIPI and AD/DA converters in addition to S2C’s 90+ daughter cards through standard Prodigy™ Connectors.

The Prodigy S7 Series Logic Systems work seamlessly with other Prodigy Prototyping components such as Prodigy Player Pro software, Prodigy™ Multi-Debug Module and Prodigy ProtoBridge to provide unrivaled configuration, partitioning, deep-trace debug and co-modeling capabilities.

The Prodigy S7-9P and S7-13P Logic Systems are for purchase now.

FPGA prototyping system employs Intel Stratix 10 GX 10M devices

November 21, 2019 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

S2C has announced the availability of its new S10 10M Prodigy Logic System family based on Intel Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGA which will be available in Single, Dual and Quad FPGA configurations. The Single S10 10M Prodigy Logic System is shipping immediately and delivers the highest logic density and I/O count for a single FPGA system and is expected to significantly accelerate system validation and software development for complex designs. The Stratix 10 GX 10M FPGA is the newest addition to Intel’s 14nm Stratix 10 family and features up to 10.2 million Logic Elements.

Key features:

Supports designs up to 80 million ASIC gates with a single FPGA, simplifying the prototyping effort for complex design.
Prodigy Logic System hardware facilitates comprehensive out-of-the-box prototyping, reducing time-to-prototyping.
Complete Player Pro prototyping software-stack streamlines Quartus-based FPGA design compilation, reducing prototype configuration time.
Supported by Prodigy MDM debug module, accelerating design debug.
Supported by a rich portfolio of Prototype Ready IP in the form of plug-play daughter cards, enabling rapid prototype platform bring-up.

The Single S10 10M Prodigy Logic System is optimized and trimmed to assure signal integrity and enable the best performance, supporting up to 1.4 Gbps for general-purpose I/O, and up to 17.4 Gbps for the high-speed transceivers. Remote management capabilities are supported over USB or Ethernet, including FPGA configuration, power on/off/recycle, Virtue UART for debugging, system monitoring, as well as identification of the presence of specific Prodigy daughter cards, and remote test with the auto-detection technology.

The S10 10M Prodigy Logic System is part of S2C Prodigy Complete Prototyping Solutions and works seamlessly with Prodigy Player ProTM software, Prodigy Multi-Debug Module and Prodigy ProtoBridge, to accelerate prototype design verification and software development.

S2C is taking orders for the Single S10 10M Prodigy Logic System now.

Interface module speeds FPGA prototyping of ARMv8 designs

October 19, 2016 By Aimee Kalnoskas Leave a Comment

S2C Inc. has announced the availability of its new Prodigy Juno ARM Interface Module. The module works with the Juno ARM Development Platform, speeding up and increasing the scalability of FPGA prototyping for designs based on ARMv8-A architecture. The Prodigy Juno ARM Interface Module effectively bridges the software development environment to S2C’s Prodigy Logic Modules, for prototyping custom logic blocks alongside the ARM-based processor.

The Juno ARM Development Platform includes the Juno Versatile Express board and an ARMv8-A reference software port available through Linaro Linux. The Prodigy ARM Juno Interface Module works seamlessly with the Prodigy Complete Prototyping Platform that includes advanced capabilities for design partitioning, prototype configuration, multi-FPGA debug, and the ability to scale beyond 1.5B gates utilizing the Prodigy Cloud Cube architecture.

“The ease with which designers can use the Juno ARM Development Platform within ARM-based designs is invaluable,” commented Toshio Nakama, CEO of S2C, Inc. “We have extended that ease-of-use to our flexible Prodigy FPGA Prototyping Platform that combines high-speed, effective and reliable prototyping with the ability to scale designs to unprecedented levels.”

S2C provides a complete easy set up reference design as part of the Prodigy Juno ARM Interface Module package. It connects S2C Prodigy Virtex UltraScale and Kintex UltraScale Logic Modules with the Juno ARM Development Platform. The reference design shows:

Comprehensive self-testing between the two environments
Expanded FPGA capacity
Early porting of OS kernel or driver code for ARMv8-A processors
High-speed DDR4 memory access between the Logic Module(s) and Juno ARM Development Platform

S2C will be demonstrating the Prodigy Juno ARM Interface Module in their booth (#915) at ARM TechCon 2016 on October 26 and 27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California.

The Prodigy Juno Interface Module is available now for the Prodigy Virtex UltraScale Logic Module series.

Cards help prototype SoCs with pre-engineered interfaces

July 19, 2016 By Garrett Cona Leave a Comment

S2C Inc., a worldwide leader of FPGA-based prototyping solutions for today’s innovative designs, announced today the addition of 8 new Prototype Ready interface cards and accessories to its extensive library of over 90 pre-engineered hardware and software components aimed at accelerating the development of SoC prototypes. These new modules enable users to prototype SoC designs with a variety of interfaces and work out-of-box with S2C’s comprehensive family of Logic Modules. These preengineered solutions enable users to focus on SoC prototype development and product differentiation to gain an edge in today’s competitive markets.

“We pride ourselves on giving our users the tools they need to be successful in their prototyping endeavors and to get a jump on their competition,” said Toshio Nakama, CEO of S2C. “We are always expanding our comprehensive library of Prodigy interfaces and accessories so that users can feel confident about getting the hardware they need for their specific design requirements.”

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