Baltimore, MD and Cumbernauld, U.K., — Nallatech™, the domain expert in high-performance FPGA computing solutions, today announced the addition of three new Xilinx® Virtex™-5 based XMC products in the Rugged VME and XMC series.

The new products are the XMC-220™ FPGA and 16 bit analog input and output XMC mezzanine, the XMC-230™ FPGA processing XMC mezzanine and the XMC-231™ FPGA and FPDP XMC mezzanine. These products complement the VXS-610™ VXS multiprocessor and XMC-210™ XMC mezzanine that Nallatech launched earlier this year to address the growing market need for rugged deployable sensor processing solutions using FPGA technology.

The XMC-220 features an on-board Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, coupled directly to two channels of 16 bit, 180MSPS A/D and two channels of 16 bit, 1GSPS D/A. This enables analog signal data to be sampled at high resolution to implement Signal Intelligence, Software Defined Radio and Electronics Warfare applications.

The XMC-230 is a dedicated FPGA processing mezzanine featuring an on-board Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA with external memory. On the XMC-231, this processing capability is combined with the widely used FPDP interface, providing a familiar and reliable mechanism for communicating with other hardware platforms and allowing users to integrate FPGA processing into existing and new systems.

Each of the new XMC mezzanines feature a common processing, memory and interfacing architecture. The option of either logic optimized LXT155T or DSP optimized SXT95T Virtex-5 user FPGA is available, enabling users to select the optimal processing resources for the application being implemented. The FPGA interfaces directly to on-board DDR2 SDRAM memory, 8 GTP serial links on the primary XMC connector and the Interface Controller. The Interface Controller handles card control and PCI interfacing in a separate device leaving the whole of the user FPGA for application designs and simplifying design and integration.

All three products are supported by a comprehensive FPGA Developers Kit (FDK) which provides optimized high performance IP cores for all FPGA interfaces and peripherals. Software board support packages (BSPs) are available for Linux and VxWorks® operating environments.

Each product is designed to support commercial (forced air), and rugged (forced air or conduction cooled) system implementations using the same functional design. This allows applications to be developed on commercial versions of the product for R&D, with the appropriate extended temperature or rugged version being used for deployment on the end system platform. This minimizes application changes between R&D implementation and the deployed target platform, reducing program costs and risks.

“The introduction of these three new XMC mezzanines demonstrates the significant ongoing new product development investment that Nallatech is making to deliver rugged sensor processing solutions for the defense and aerospace market” said Craig Anderson, CEO at Nallatech. “We are working with a number of major defense prime contractors who are developing applications that will use these new products and benefit from the effective migration path from development to deployment that they offer.” XMC-220, XMC-230 and XMC-231 will be shipping in Q4 2008.

For further information, visit www.nallatech.com, or call (410) 552 3352 (North America) or +44 1236 789 567 (Europe).

About Nallatech

Nallatech is the worlds leading supplier of high-performance COTS FPGA Solutions. Nallatech designs and manufactures high-performance FPGA embedded products, in form factors such as VME, VXS, PMC, XMC, PCI, PCIe, PCI-X and PCI-104. Customers benefit from lower costs, reduction in size, weight and power and improved performance. Nallatech has four operating locations worldwide and international partner sales offices in several countries. For further information please visit – www.nallatech.com