GiDEL Ships PROCStar II Development System Featuring Industry's Largest FPGA From Altera

GiDEL Ships PROCStar II Development System Featuring Industry's
Largest FPGA From Altera 


EIN AYYALA, Israel, March 8  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- GiDEL Ltd, an Altera
Corporation development kit partner, today announced the immediate availability
of the PROCStar(TM) II 180 development system for rapid ASIC and SoC
prototyping, research and high-density applications. Featuring up to four of
Altera's Stratix(TM) II EP2S180 devices, the industry's fastest and
highest-density FPGAs, the PROCStar II system gives designers a high capacity,
high-speed, dynamically reconfigurable FPGA-based design platform for
applications such as digital signal processing (DSP), machine vision, video
processing, as well as aerospace, and military systems.

"Delivering development systems with Altera's industry-leading FPGAs gives
customers a best-in-class development platform for highly advanced designs,"
said Reuven Weintraub, president and CTO of GiDEL. "The introduction of the
PROCStar II 180 combined with our tools is yet another important milestone in
the company's growth, as partners and customers increasingly look to GiDEL for
leading chip and system rapid development platform solutions."

The PROCStar II system combined with GiDEL's PROC Developer's Tools
(PROCWizard(TM), PROCMultiPort(TM) and PSDB_Proto(TM)) offer significant
time-to-market advantages by eliminating the need for board design, development
of PCI application drivers, board constraints and generic FPGA code. This
enables designers to focus on their proprietary value-added design, as opposed
to spending their time re-creating standard design components.

The PROCStar II 180 is the newest member of the PROCStar II series of
development systems, which are also shipping in versions featuring the Stratix
II EP2S60 and Stratix II EP2S130 devices. The PROCStar II development system
also includes up to 2.5GBs of on board memory capable of achieving a sustained
access rate of 15GB/sec, TI DSP processors and a variety of add-on-boards for
memory expansion. The development boards can be connected to a PCI bus for easy
hardware or software development, or used alone.  The double data rate II
(DDR2) memory structure, combined with the unique GiDEL MultiPort(TM)
controller enables new design methodologies that simplify achieving maximum
system performance.  The PROCStar II system's short traces ensure system speeds
up to 300MHz.

"GiDEL's PROCStar development system gives designers an enormous amount of
flexibility and resources for cutting edge system development," said David
Greenfield, Altera's senior director of product marketing for high-density
FPGAs. "The combination of our Stratix II devices with GiDEL's advanced board
architecture and development tools will meet the requirements of almost any
designer."

About Stratix II Devices

Stratix II devices provide more than double the logic density and are on
average 39 percent faster than the nearest competitive FPGA devices. Its
innovative logic structure allows designers to conserve device resources by
packing more functionality into a smaller area. For more information about
Stratix II devices, please visit http://www.altera.com/stratix2.

About GiDEL

GiDEL Ltd, http://www.gidel.com/, is a successful, profitable and innovative
company which was founded in 1993. GiDEL has become one of the market leaders
as a company that continuously provides cutting-edge reconfigurable technology
utilizing FPGAs. GiDEL sees its customers as partners and uses its vast
experience at the project-level & FPGA design to focus on its customers'
projects success. For more information about the PROCStar development systems,
please visit http://www.gidel.com/PROCStar%20II.htm.

About Altera

Altera Corporation is the world's pioneer of system-on-a-programmable-chip
(SOPC) solutions. Combining programmable logic technology with software tools,
intellectual property, and technical services, Altera provides high-value
programmable solutions to approximately 14,000 customers worldwide. More
information is available at http://www.altera.com/.

NOTE:  Altera, The Programmable Solutions Company, the stylized Altera logo,
specific device designations and all other words that are identified as
trademarks and/or service marks are, unless noted otherwise, the trademarks and
service marks of Altera Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. PROCStar
II, PROCWizard, PROCMultiPort, PSDB_Proto and MultiPort are trademarks of GiDEL
Ltd.

CONTACT:  Bruce Fienberg of Altera Corporation, [phone], or ; or Shlomo
Keisari of GiDEL Ltd., [phone], or . 

DATASOURCE: Altera Corporation



CONTACT:  Bruce Fienberg of Altera Corporation, [phone], or

; or Shlomo Keisari of GiDEL Ltd., [phone], or





Web site:  http://www.altera.com/

Web site:  http://www.gidel.com/

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