Source: SRC Computers
May 20, 2008

New Series I MAPSTATIONS™ AND ICARTE™ Programming Environment

Powerful Cost-Effective Reconfigurable Processing


May 20, 2008 – SRC Computers, Inc., a leader in high performance FPGA-based reconfigurable computing systems, announces the newest additions to its SRC-7 line of computing products: Series I MAPStation workstations and iCarte Programming Environment.

Series I MAP Processor
SRC’s Series I MAP processor provides powerful cost-effective reconfigurable processing by combining the high bandwidth of SRC’s SNAP™ interface with the compute capability of the MAP processor. The Series I MAP module plugs directly into the DIMM slots of a commodity/COTS microprocessor motherboard. It is also the only peer-connected reconfigurable processor utilizing a JEDEC standard interconnect that can be used with either AMD or Intel based commodity motherboards.

The Series I MAP is particularly well suited for:
Streaming applications such as network sniffing and data archiving
Financial applications such as risk analysis and option trading
Image processing for the medical, defense, homeland security, and GEOINT/GIS industries
Educational development platforms
Available in three MAPstation models starting at just $17,000, the Series I MAPStations provide accelerated computing with lower power, cooling and IT support costs than traditional grid or cluster-based systems.

iCarte Programming Environment
Through the use of SRC’s Carte™ high level language programming environment, the Series I MAP is software-compatible with all other MAP processors. For users who do not already have a Carte development license, SRC has developed a new version of Carte, called iCarte, which specifically supports the Series I MAP.

iCarte has the same familiar look and feel of standard Carte, but without support for features not present in the systems using the Series I MAP such as multiple User Logic chips and shared common memory. Both ANSI C and Fortran are supported in an identical fashion as with standard Carte.

The standard Carte debug environment remains including the ability to target other SRC MAP types, such as the Series H, for comparison and evaluation purposes. This allows a programmer to write an application, and then see how its performance on the Series I compares to that same code’s performance on any other SRC MAP without actually having access to those other MAP types.

Priced at just $5,000 for a perpetual development license, iCarte provides a very powerful, economical easy-to-use ANSI standard language development environment for the Series I MAP.