FROM
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This week we sat down with Nallatech founder Allan Cantle and got his views on Nallatech, FPGAs, high-performance computing, and the future of FPGA-centric computer architectures. Under Allan’s guidance, Nallatech has become the “go-to” consulting company for solving demanding high-performance embedded computing problems using FPGAs. Our latest executive focus tracks Allan’s past history and future strategy as he moves ahead with Nallatech.
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Allan Cantle
Redefining Computing with Nallatech
Allan Cantle knows what it takes to design high-performance digital systems. He’s been proving it since his early days at BAE Systems, where he was creating real-time simulations of evasive enemy targets to be used with real-world missiles in targeting practice. Allan has always had a knack for decomposing a complex problem into manageable-sized chunks, then mapping those chunks onto the appropriate architectures with the right interconnect to hit aggressive performance goals in the most economical way. Allan has a passion for working on complicated computing problems and isn’t afraid of trying varied technologies to solve them. When FPGAs came into his world, he knew just what to do with them. He understood that the highest computational throughput always comes from molding the architecture to the algorithm, and not the other way around.
Allan founded Nallatech (www.nallatech.com) in 1993, but he’d been busy building his alternative concept of supercomputing long before that. Allan comes from a family with a long history of driving technological innovation. His grandfather was an electrical pioneer as well. When electricity first became available in his Bristol, England hometown, the electric company required at least 20 houses to sign up in an area before they’d bring in service. Wanting electricity for his own home, he canvassed the area and wired enough neighboring houses himself to meet the minimum requirement. The same inventive and entrepreneurial spirit carried on to Allan’s father, and to him.
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