MathStar Develops Field Programmable Object Arrays

MathStar, a start-up based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, revealed architectural details of its new Field-Programmable Object Arrays (FPOAs), which are positioned as an alternative to 130nm ASICs and conventional FPGAs. MathStar said its FPOAs would give design teams flexible field re-programmability with deterministic 1GHz clock performance and attractive unit cost. To simplify the design process, cycle-accurate C-based functional models are directly mapped into the FPOA architecture. MathStar will target applications domains using customized mixes of object types, on-chip memory resources, and high-performance I/O. Initial target applications will include extreme DSP and wire speed packet processing and aggregation applications in 10 Gbps networking and storage equipment markets.
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