BILLERICA, Massachusetts, January 11, 2007 – CSP Inc. (NASDAQ: CSPI) MultiComputer Division, a leading supplier of rugged embedded clusters, announced today its selection of CoreFire™ FPGA technologies, from Annapolis Micro Systems, to power its next generation of High Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC) embedded clusters. Under this partnership CSPI will integrate Annapolis’s state of the art FPGA designs and CoreFire Development Suite into its rugged embedded clusters to boost DSP front end capabilities.
Combining CSPI’s experience in high performance embedded computing with Annapolis’s CoreFire FPGA technologies offers an advanced Open Architecture for DoD programs requiring HPRC scalable platforms in harsh environments. “Through our strategic partnership with Annapolis we are able to offer our FastCluster customers a mature development environment for DSP FPGA designs, delivering a tenfold improvement in performance and productivity ” stated Alexander R. Lupinetti, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of CSP, Inc.
The selection of the CoreFire Data Flow technologies for FPGA designs enables CSPI and Annapolis to deploy the first true HPRC embedded open platforms based upon PCI Express, Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA’s, Freescale’s multicore 8641D PowerPC processor and MPI (Message Passing Interface). This advanced hybrid node architecture will find its way into FastCluster
XL-Gate blades that will start reaching the market by mid 2007.
“CSPI’s deployment of embedded clustering technology for DoD programs has been very successful,” says Jane Donaldson, Annapolis founder and CEO. “With the selection of CoreFire technologies for its hybrid node cluster we look forward to helping CSPI deliver new levels of performance in extremely demanding computational and physical environments”.
The CoreFire Design Suite and DSP Core Library leverage Annapolis’s experience as a leading provider of high-performance FPGA solutions. These FPGA technologies deliver productivity and code re-use at the user application layer with a data flow model optimized for DSP processing and full support for custom VHDL cores as well as customer developed IP.
“Our FastCluster systems will benefit not only from the increased performance delivered by the latest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA’s but from Annapolis’ robust set of features including: proven BSP support for FPGA’s, multi-FPGA support via RocketIO, a large DSP Core Library and most importantly the productivity advantages associated with the CoreFire Development Suite for FPGA’s” said Bernard Pelon, Director of Product Research.
CSPI’s strategic partnership with Annapolis includes a reseller agreement covering the entire Annapolis product line to meet our customer requirements. A ready to use CoreFire PCI-X Development Platform is available now to enable early development. This will be followed by modular FPGA solutions using standard XMC modules on FastCluster I/O carrier boards.
About Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc., known as The FPGA Performance Company, is a leader in COTS High Performance Processing. Annapolis provides the application developer with everything needed to fully use the power of FPGA processing to solve real time problems, with full bandwidth input and output. Annapolis excels in providing easy to use and cost effective full system solutions to very demanding real-time data capture, processing and storage problems. The customer can develop his/her application using our CoreFire™ Development Suite, with its extensive IP & Board Support Libraries, or with VHDL. Some typical application areas are DSP, Radar, SIGINT, SW Radio, Image Processing, Encryption, and Data Mining.
For more information about Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. visit www.annapmicro.com or contact Jane Donaldson at (410) 841-2514, [email protected].
About CSP Inc.
Based in Billerica, Massachusetts and founded in 1968, CSP Inc. (NASDAQ: CSPI) and its subsidiaries develop and market best-of-breed IT solutions, systems integration services, and high-performance computer systems. CSP’s Systems segment includes the MultiComputer Division, which supplies high- performance Linux cluster systems for a broad array of defense applications, including radar, sonar and surveillance signal processing. The Company’s MODCOMP, Inc. subsidiary, part of its Service and Systems Integration segment founded in 1970 and which includes the fiscal 2003 acquisition of Technisource, is a leading provider of IT solutions and systems integration services. MODCOMP works with third parties to develop customized solutions in the global IT markets and has offices in the U.S., U.K. and Germany.
For more information about CSP Inc., visit www.cspi.com or call us at 1 (800) 325-3110
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