LONG BEACH, CA – January 16, 2006 – BittWare, Inc. announced today at the Bus & Board Conference that they have teamed up with Mercury Computer Systems through a licensing agreement enabling BittWare to utilize Mercury Computer Systems’ Serial RapidIO endpoint on their B2-AMC (B2AM) board. Both companies have committed to long term support of the Serial RapidIO AMC solution. The B2AM, designed by BittWare, combines Analog Devices TigerSHARC® with the superior logic density of Altera’s Stratix™ II FPGA and the benefits of AdvancedMC™. This quad ADSP-TS201 AMC board supports Universal Baseband Processing for any wireless application including WiMAX, Software Defined Radio, and Super 3G, bringing BittWare’s expertise in SHARC-based designs to a new platform. BittWare’s ATLANTiS™ architecture, implemented in the on-board Stratix II, facilitates off-board I/O and provides communications routing and processing. Mercury’s Serial RapidIO IP core is utilized within ATLANTiS, providing customers with a bridge enabling the transfer of Serial RapidIO data to and from the board.
“We believe that the combination of BittWare’s B2AM with Mercury’s Serial RapidIO endpoint provides a powerful and flexible solution for baseband processing applications,” stated Darren Taylor, VP of Sales & Marketing at BittWare.
About BittWare’s B2-AMC
A full-height, single wide AMC, the B2AM is ideal for use in AdvancedTCA®, MicroTCA, or custom systems and is completely hot-swappable. Using the superscalar architecture of the ADSP-TS201 TigerSHARC DSPs, the B2AM provides an unprecedented 14.4 GFLOPs and 57.5 GOPS of processing power. A large Altera Stratix II FPGA implements BittWare’s ATLANTiS architecture, seamlessly integrating the DSP processing power with your switch fabric of choice: Serial RapidIO®, PCI Express™, Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), GigE, or XAUI™ (10 GigE). In addition to the multiprocessor scalability of the TigerSHARC, the board features a variety of front and back panel I/O interfaces, an IPMI system management interface, and system synchronization via AMC system clocks.
B2-AMC Availability and Pricing
Volume shipments will begin in Q1 of 2006 with OEM quantities priced at $4,995.
About Mercury Computer Systems’ Serial RapidIO IP Core
Serial RapidIO® IP Core is a high-performance solution that is independent of physical layer designs, implementation tools, and target technology. It is capable of addressing a variety of solutions, including endpoint and switching applications. The core is designed for the growing RapidIO market.
About BittWare, Inc.
Founded in 1989, BittWare, Inc. is the leading designer and manufacturer of hybrid (DSP and FPGA) board-level solutions based on Analog Devices’ SHARC® and Altera’s FPGA technology, providing innovative Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTs) and application-specific solutions for high-performance, real-time signal processing and I/O applications. BittWare’s product offering addresses OEM needs from prototype-to-production and span a variety of platforms, including AMC, VME, PCI, CompactPCI, PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PMC and standalone. For more information on BittWare and its innovative DSP and FPGA solutions, visit www.bittware.com.
