X-ES Enters FPGA COTS Board Market with XPedite2300

Offering support for pluggable daughter cards for customizable I/O, Extreme Engineering Solutions, Inc. (X-ES (News - Alert)) has unveiled XPedite2300, a Xilinx Virtex-6 based XMC module.

The XPedite2300 is a high-performance reconfigurable conduction- or air-cooled XMC module based on the Xilinx (News - Alert) Virtex-6 family of FPGAs.

To control and communicate with FPGAs, the FDK includes IP blocks, example FPGA designs, and software.   All of the IP blocks included in the FDK interface to the industry-standard AXI4 interconnect.   The company has stated that support for the AXI4 interconnect in the FDK is important for a number of reasons. For example, it provides an industry-standard, non-proprietary, interconnect mechanism for IP blocks, the company stated in a press release.

“The timing for X-ES to enter the FPGA market and Xilinx's support for the AXI4 interface protocol was perfect," states Bret Farnum, VP Sales of X-ES in a company press release."From an ease-of-use standpoint, this allows X-ES to leapfrog the FPGA development environments that others in the industry have been providing.”

To facilitate Plug-and-Play FPGA design with the goal of shortening time-to-market for customers, Xilinx supports the AXI4 interface standard in the Virtex-6. The AXI4 interface standard finally brings true reuse to the FPGA industry. Making it much easier to create working FPGA designs, customers can easily integrate FPGA logic based on the AXI4 interconnect from X-ES, Xilinx, and other third-parties without having to make any modifications. The use of the AXI4 interface standard has made reuse of IP blocks simple and straightforward for developers.

Recently, the company announced the availability of the XAct3000 Rugged Solid State Storage System. The natural convection-cooled sub-½ ATR system supports between 1 TB and 3.5 TB of rugged solid state storage. The XAct3000 is a turnkey NAS; by simply configuring the JBODs or RAID units and connecting it to an Ethernet network, customers can start storing and retrieving files. The XAct3000 supports ATA secure erase and meets the erase requirements of the DOD NISPOM 5220.22 and NSA/CSS (News - Alert) 9-12 specifications.