Kane Computing’s partner, GiDEL, has released a new range of PCI Express computational accelerator boards incorporating the Altera Stratix IV family of FPGAs. The PROCe IV system provides a high-capacity, high-speed FPGA-based platform fortified with high throughput and massive memory. The PROCe IV can be hosted via 4-lane PCI Express. The board’s high speed performance coupled with memory and add-on daughter boards’ enables the system to meet almost any computational need. In addition to 512MB on-board memory, two SODIMM sockets provide up to 8GB of memory or additional connectivity and logic. Abundant memory conjoined with fast PCIe connection enable strong co-processing between a standard PC operating system and the FPGA acceleration.
The PROCe IV supports up to 2 daughter cards to provide real-world interfaces such as CameraLink, SDI, Ethernet, etc. Applications include HPC, machine vision and imaging, high speed acquisition systems and bio-informatics. The PROCDeveloper’s Kit, GiDEL’s intuitive design and debug environment, facilitates design development effort on the PROCe IV system. The kit contains PROCWizard, PROCMultiPort and other memory control IPs, Quartus, USBBlaster and a PROC_HILs option.
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