AMD Investors - AMD's Vantis introduces their First FPGA device
Check this out - Vantis is trying to enter the Xilinx/ALtera/Actel markets.
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techweb.cmp.com
AMD's Vantis enters FPGA market
with Variable-Grain-Architecture
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--The Vantis subsidiary of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. here today entered the field -programmable gate arrays, introducing its Variable-Grain-Architecture devices--known as the VF1 series--and new design software. The first chips in the VF1 series will be made available in volume during the second half
of 1998.
Vantissaid its FPGA family will offer devices with up to 250,000 gates using the current process technology. The initial family members deliver up to 36,000 gates or the functional equivalent of 50,000 gates when on-chip memory is included, according to the AMD company. The VF1 family has 250-MHz pipeline performance, which Vantis claims is 50-100% faster than mainstream FPGAs.
Vantis said its unique chip architecture makes it possible to vary FPGA logic block configurations to adapt to a "large variety of possible applications and design styles.
"This announcement makes Vantis the only full-line PLD supplier that can service the needs of the most demanding customers in the marketplace today," eclared Rich Forte, president and CEO at
Vantis. "In addition, through our relationship with AMD, Vantis has access to AMD's most advanced process technologies, enabling us to provide the highest performance programmable logic solutions in the industry."
Also today, Vantis rolled out its Design-Direct software, which has been developed exploit the performance of the new Variable-Grain-Architecture. Vantis said its Design-Direct software is a "push-button, out-of-the-box design solution" supporting standards-based, high level design methodologies such as VHDL
and Verilog. It is available for computers running Unix, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems.
Samples of the initial VF1 devices will be made available to customers in the second quarter 1998. Volume production is scheduled to begin in the third quarter. Vantis said prices for the new FPGAs will start at $46 each in volume quantities during the second half of 1998. |
