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Annapolis, Maryland – May 31, 2013 – Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. (Annapolis), the leader in Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Based High Performance Computing, announces their WILD OpenVPX EcoSystem.
The WILD OpenVPX EcoSystem, with its mix and match COTS OpenVPX boards provides the most FPGA based processing and the fastest and widest bandwidths available, to allow Annapolis customers to input, process, move around and output much more data than has ever been possible before, to enable vastly improved processing in applications such as Signal Processing, Radar, SIGINT, and ELINT.
The WILD Ecosystem begins with a 4 slot chassis with a custom designed high performance mesh backplane, a 6 slot chassis with a custom designed high speed switched backplane with room for 1 switch card, and a 12 slot chassis with a custom designed high speed backplane with accomodation for 2 switch cards. These state of the art backplanes will carry data at up to or greater than 10G on their dataplanes. The EcoSystem also includes WILDSTAR 6 FPGA Processing boards, with 1, 2 or 3 Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGAs, and WILDSTAR A5 FPGA Processing boards, with 1, 2 or 3 Altera Stratix V FPGA Processing boards. Each of the processing cards can have up to 2 A/D or D/A I/O mezzanine cards, up to 5 GSps A/D and 4 GSps D/A, and up to 6 QSFP+ front panel I/O connectors, each capable of up to 40Gb Ethernet. Annapolis has a one slot 8 TB WILD Storage Board, and a one slot WILD Switch Board with up to 4Tbs Non- Blocking Switch Capacity, using 10G/40G/56G Ethernet or SDR/DDR/QDR/FDR Infiniband. There are several Clock Boards, to allow synchronization of analog signals. There is also an RTM card, which provides additional connectors out the back of the chassis, including 6 more QSFP+ connectors. All chassis are designed with ample power and airflow, to meet the high performance demands of these advanced applications.
About Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc., in business since 1982, has been at the forefront of providing industry leading FPGA Processing Solutions since 1994. Annapolis excels at providing the application developer with everything needed to fully use the power of FPGA processing to solve very demanding real-time data capture, processing and storage problems. The WILDSTAR product line includes both Xilinx and Altera FPGA processing boards for OpenVPX, PCI Express, VME/VXS, IBM BladeCenter, and AMC.
This includes a continually expanding line of superior Analog to Digital, Digital to Analog and High-Speed Communication Solutions. New mezzanine cards and on-board I/O carry forward the Annapolis WILDSTAR system strategy of providing End-to-End Input, Processing and Storage options. The customer can develop his/her application using their preferred FPGA application design methodology. Annapolis provides standard source code VHDL board support packages, as well as drivers and APIs. Annapolis also provides its CoreFire FPGA Design Suite. CoreFire, with its GUI based design entry, patented dataflow methodology and extensive highly optimized intelligent IP & Board Support Libraries, results in very fast, tight designs within a dramatically small amount of development time. The combination of Annapolis COTS systems with the CoreFire Design Suite enables Annapolis customers to field full systems while their competitors are still debugging prelimiinary FPGA designs.
Some typical application areas include Network Processing, SIGINT, COMINT, SW Radio, RADAR, Image Processing, Encryption, and Data Mining.
Annapolis is famous for the high quality of its products and for its unparalleled dedication to ensuring that the customers’ applications succeed. They offer training and exceptional custom application development support, as well as more conventional
customer support.
For more information about the Annapolis WILD OpenVPX EcoSystem, the WILDSTAR Family, the CoreFire Design Suite, or other Annapolis products in the USA, contact Pat Stover at (410) 841-2514, [email protected]. For European Sales and Support, contact Noah Donaldson in Stockholm, Sweden at +46 708 453 203, [email protected]. For more information about Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. contact Jane Donaldson at (410) 841-2514, [email protected]. Website is www.annapmicro.com
