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CHIPit Iridium Edition V5

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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
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CHIPit Iridium Edition V5
The CHIPit Iridium Edition V5, a very cost effective solution for all stages of hardware-assisted verification, gives ASIC & SoC design engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to verify and debug their designs. With the newest member of the CHIPit product family, Pro Design‘s developer team has succeeded in building a unique high-speed ASIC prototyping platform for small and medium-sized ASIC designs to accelerate the verification of complex digital systems. The CHIPit Iridium Edition combines the advantages of the Platinum and Gold Edition Pro as well as Pro Design‘s patented technologies to reach an impressive conjunction of performance, flexibility, debugging capability and cost effectiveness.

Highest Flexibility
The CHIPit Iridium Edition offers a maximum of flexibility. It is scalable form 1 up to 6 FPGAs and handles design capacities up to 8 million ASIC gates. The patented 3D Switching Technology enables highest interconnection flexibility between all FPGAs and assists in adjusting the connection architecture to the design in the best way to achieve a maximum system speed performance of up to 200 MHz. Moreover, the high-speed ASIC prototyping platform provides up to 2560 free user I/Os on 8 different extension board sites - 4 on the top side and another 4 on the bottom side of the FPGA board (stack) - to mount additional standard CHIPit extension boards or additional application-specific resources like processors, memory devices, dedicated interfaces, driver circuits etc. to the system for in-circuit verification.

CHIPit Iridium Software Package
The CHIPit Iridium Edition comes with a comprehensive software package including CHIPit Manager, Switch Routing Tool, Visibility Tool, HDL Bridge & Signal Tracker, Host Controlled Debug Tool, and an SCE-MI interface for transactional based verification. The CHIPit Manager for complete project administration and system configuration supports design implementation (synthesis/place & route) and handles design partitioning on the prototyping system. The Visibility Tool eases debugging of the design by probing the internal design signals after synthesis/place & route which can then be analyzed for example with tools such as logic analyzers. Other highlights for debugging are 'HDL Bridge' and 'Signal Tracker'.

HDL Bridge is a powerful tool that provides a direct link between a simulation environment (RTL or gate level) to part or the whole DUT (design under test) that is loaded in the CHIPit system. This ensures that the entire design or parts of it run in hardware already in the simulation phase. Combined with Signal Tracker for visualization of the internal signals in the simulator, the designer is provided with an ideal solution for rapid design debugging. The Host-Controlled Debugging Tool allows the user access to all design registers without any synthesis and place & route. The signal values will be stored using VCD files and can be visualized in a wave form viewer.

Scopes Of Application

• Algorithm validation
• IP validation
• ASIC prototyping
• Behavioral prototyping
• Real-time prototyping
• In-circuit emulation
• Hardware/software co-verification
• Firmware/software development
• Transaction-based emulation

Key Benefits Of The CHIPit Iridium Edition V5

• Provides up to 200 MHz system performance
• ASIC prototyping with emulation capabilities
• Scalable platform up to 6 FPGAs
• 3D Switching Technology for highest FPGA interconnection flexibility
• Open connectivity (up to 2560 free user I/O pins)
• Interface for C/C++, Tcl/Tk programming
• Supports co-simulation, transaction-based emulation and in-circuit verification modes
• Dynamic probe capability allows interactive debugging
• Incl. patented UMRBus Communication System
• Very robust and transportable solution
• Support for Solaris, Windows and Linux


CHIPit Iridium Edition V5 Specifications

Capacity	Up to 8M ASIC gates

Operating performance	Up to 200 MHz

FPGA type	- Xilinx Virtex XC5VLX330

Number of FPGAs	Scalable up to 6 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 258 (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

Other features	- Stand-alone (bootable system)

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

System variants	- Master (hardware + complete software package + UMRBus) - Replicator RU (hardware + configuration tools + UMRBus) - Replicator (hardware + configuration tools)

Supported OS	Windows, Linux

Power	12 V output external power supply per FPGA board

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