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Pro Design Electronics Corporation
2107 North First Street / Suite 380
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
Phone: +1 (408) 441-7880
Fax: +1 (408) 441-7885
chipit[at]prodesign-usa[dot]com

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Pro Design Elecronic GmbH
Albert-Mayer-Strasse 16
D-83052 Bruckmühl
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Phone: +49 (0) 8062-808-0
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CHIPit Copper Edition
Pro Design has developed the sixth generation of high-speed ASIC prototyping systems. With the CHIPit Copper Edition, we have created a very cost-effective high-speed verification solution with a maximum of flexibility, fast system speeds and best price-performance ratio. This prototyping system addresses the needs of ASIC designers who need multiple platforms to work in parallel for early pre-silicon software/firmware development in form of a cost-optimized high-speed development system.

Performance Despite Cost-Optimization
The CHIPit Copper Edition can be used in a very flexible manner. The user has the possibility to choose between 2 or 4 FPGAs (1 or 2 emulation boards). Depending on the configuration, the system handles ASIC design capacities from 2 M up to 4 M ASIC gates. The system is equipped with 8 extension board sections with up to 2560 free user I/Os to attach additional standard CHIPit- or user-specific extension boards. The extension board sites can be used to add further application-specific resources like processors, memory devices, dedicated interfaces, driver circuits etc.. Moreover, the CHIPit Copper Edition provides up to 4 SO-DIMM card slots. Each emulation board can be equipped with two “Memory Modules” carrying SSRAM devices, as well as with one DDR-SDRAM SO-DIMM and one DDR2-SDRAM SO-DIMM, which are directly connected to the FPGAs.


CHIPit System Control The configuration of the “Copper” via Ethernet interface is really user-friendly, thanks to the CHIPit Configuration software, which offers service functions, such as controlling the global reset, clock settings, directly configuring the FPGAs or reading and writing the flash memory on the SD/MM card plugged into the CHIPit Copper Edition.The system can also operate as a stand-alone embedded appliance without the need of being connected to a host computer. Last but not least, the “Copper” features a 4x20-character LCD and a 4-button menu control for project selection and status information.

Scopes Of Application

• Algorithm validation
• IP validation
• ASIC prototyping
• Behavioral prototyping
• Real-time prototyping
• In-circuit emulation
• Firmware/software development

Key Benefits Of The CHIPit Copper Edition

• Provides up to 200 MHz system performance
• Cost-optimized ASIC prototyping solution
• Scalable platform from 2 up to 4 FPGAs
• Very flexible through switchable FPGA interconnections (software-controlled)
• Open connectivity (up to 2560 free user I/O pins)
• Optinal on-board SSRAM memories and SO-DIMM card sockets
• Configurable with SD card or over Ethernet interface
• Compact, transportable and stand-alone system
• Robust system and connection architecture
• Support for Solaris, Windows and Linux


CHIPit Copper Edition Specifications

Capacity	Up to 4M ASIC gates

Operating performance	Up to 200 MHz

FPGA type	- Xilinx Virtex XC4VLX100, XC4VLX160, XC4VLX200

Number of FPGAs	Scalable from 2 up to 4 FPGAs

Memory	- On-board memories (different options) - Up to 4 SO-DIMM slots

I/O resources	- Up to 2560 free user I/O pins, 8 extension board sites

Onboard interfaces	- Xilinx JTAG interface for all FPGAs

Software interfaces	C/C++, Tcl/Tk programming interface, co-simulation/emulation interface, transaction-based verification (SCE-MI) interface

Communicaton	LVDS (528 MBit/s) UMRBus, Ethernet (10/100 MBit/s), SD card

Clocking scheme	- 6 programmable primary clocks - 4 additional primary clock inputs - 7 system-wide clock domains - Clocks can also be driven by User FPGAs - Global reset net, controlled from the menu control panel or by the configuration software

Interconnections	- 640 switchable interconnections per FPGA - Up to 104 (on one FPGA board) direct interconnections between the two FPGAs on one board - 66 switchable interconnections to memory modules - Up to 2560 connections to 8 PHX-size extension sides - Fixed connections to bottom connectors - Switchable connections to top connectors

Other features	- Stand-alone (bootable system); integrated system self-test

Software	- CHIPit Configuration Tool - CHIPit Manager - CHIPit Switch Routing Tool - CHIPit Visibility Tool - CHIPit HDL Bridge + CHIPit Signal Tracker - Memory Generator

Supported OS	Windows, Linux

Power	12 V output external power supply per FPGA board

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