SoC prototype from S2C based on Xilinx’s 28-nm Kintex-7 FPGA

S2C has unveiled K7 TAI Logic Module, based on Xilinx’s 28-nm Kintex-7 FPGA devices. The K7 TAI Logic Module provides up to 4.1 million ASIC gates of capacity, 432 external I/O and 16 channels of Gigabit Transceivers capable of running up to 10Gbps. K7 TAI Logic Module is shipped with TAI Player Pro runtime software and starts at an 2 “FPGA-based prototyping is a critical step for a successful SoC product launch and project manager ideally wants every hardware and software engineer to have one prototyping system on their desks. But, the rising cost of high-end FPGA-based prototyping systems, which may easily run from $100K and upwards, greatly limits the number of available FPGA-based prototyping systems for a SoC project can deploy," noted Toshio Nakama, CEO of S2C. “With less than one tenth the cost of a high-end FPGA-based prototyping system the K7 TAI Logic Module still provides a rich set of features for SoC and ASIC prototyping. The K7 TAI Logic Module allows project managers to deploy large number of FPGA-based prototypes for tasks like IP development, block-level verification, simulation acceleration, full SoC Verification and Software Development. Hardware design, system verification and software development processes can run concurrently to shorten overall project schedule.” The K7 TAI Logic Modules adopt similar form factor to S2C’s high-capacity V7 TAI Log...