Sundance Press Releases by Sundance Multiprocessor Technolgy Ltd.

PRESS RELEASE

Sundance brings ‘Lights’ to PC/104™ Community Duplex fibre optical interface connects two PC/104 stacks.

London, UK – November 30, 2011 – Sundance, a leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable systems has introduced the SMT105, a PCIe/104™ Type 2 card with integrated dual Fibre Optical Transceivers. The latest addition to the Sundance’s line of PCIe/104 modules enables PC/104 stacks to be connected to each other or to other data sources via the duplex fibre interface. The fibre connection supports transfers of 100 meters at 4Gbit per second or/and 500 meters at 1Gbit per second. “High speed interconnection between systems and data sources is an increasingly difficult challenge for embedded system designers”, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “The SMT105 uniquely solves that problem for designers using stackable PCIe/104 modules.” The SMT105 includes 256Mbytes of buffer storage, a USB2.0 interface, a microSD slot, multiple RS232-C transceivers and more than 100 LVDS I/O pins for customer specific interfaces. The SMT105 is designed to operate in a host-free, stand-alone environment for more deployment options. Linux support is available for the onboard PowerPC® 440 core. Typical applications for the SMT105 involve high-speed data acquisition where the data collection may be in a remote location or a hazardous environment and the SMT105 will transfer the collected data via fibre to a host computer. The SMT105 has a dual SATA interface to enable local backup should the transmission link be interrupted or overflow. Pricing for SMT105 starts at US $2,495 quantity one. The SMT105 is available in most configurations from stock.

About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures, and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEMs with modular systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PC/104, PCIe/104, PXI Express, and standalone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner, PC/104 Embedded Consortium, PXI Alliance and MathWorksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com. Details on the SMT105 can be found at: www.pci104.biz/product_info.php?products_id=34 About the PC/104 Embedded Consortiumâ&#x201E;˘ The Consortium is the focal point for the entire PC/104 industry including manufactures and OEMs. It provides a place for information on current specifications, product offerings, news, and events and a place to advance and develop specifications that are consistent and stable for long term use. The PC/104 Embedded Consortium and standard were established in 1992. PC/104, in use since 1987, is a small form factor, embedded PC physical and electrical interface standard. It provides embedded system designers with an architecture that is dense, cost effective and based on proven, practical technology. PC/104-Plus, an extension that was added to the standard in 1995, incorporates PCI technology. A PCI only version, PCI-104 was incorporated into the specification in 2003. EPIC form factor, a mid-sized format that supports PC/104 and PC/104-Plus was adopted in early 2005. For more technical information on PC/104, PC/104-Plus, PCI-104, PCI/104 Express, PCIe/104, EBX, EBX Express, EPIC, and EPIC Express specifications, please visit www.pc104.org.

For more information contact: Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793167 flemming.c@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America +1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235 jeremie.v@sundance.com

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990 david.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 2 December 2010

HONEY…I SHRUNK THE BASESTATION Sundance Focuses Multiprocessor Design and Multiprocessing Technology onto GSMA’s Mobile’s Green Manifesto. Reduces Telecom Infrastructure Footprint, Energy Consumption and CO2 Emissions – Improves Performance and Economics. London, UK – 2 December 2010 – Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced availability of its modular EVP6472-903 Dual WiMax RF Module multiprocessing solution. The energy smart EVP6472-903 feature two multicore DSPs with twelve TMS320C64x+™ processor cores clocked at 500MHz for telecom demanding real time processing. The product development is aligned to the trend and commitment made by the worldwide mobile communications industry to boost economic performance, improve efficiencies and increase the use of green technology. By employing multiprocessor technology, Operators and OEMs can improve performance, lower costs, reduce their infrastructure size and lower their carbon footprint. “Multiprocessing has always delivered on performance, cost and scalability”, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “However its energy credentials have often been overlooked and we are addressing this through our product announcement. As the industry continues to invest in infrastructure deployment it requires lower energy consumption - both directly, and indirectly through reductions in space cooling and a/c. Multiprocessing is low risk technology that provides a unique set of features and benefits and this, coupled with the inherent energy efficiencies of multiprocessing architectures, mean they are becoming an increasingly important solution within Green IT.” The EVP6472-903 features Dual 500MHz C6472 DSPs and Virtex-5 FXT FPGA. It incorporates 2 Maxim Wimax (IEEE802.16-2004) Transceivers that operate at 2.3 – 2.7 GHz. The transceivers integrate a power amplifier driver, receive/transmit mixer, low-noise amplifier, receive/transmit filters, synthesizer, VCO, receive gain control, and transmit power control. Each RF transceiver is coupled with a Mixed-Signal Front End chip from Analog Devices that integrates two 12-bit ADCs (80MSPS) as well as two 12-bit DACs (200MSPS using interpolation), to provide analog and digital conversions and ensure a sufficient level of precision for Wimax applications. Clocking circuits enable the board to run the transceivers and the converters from internal 40MHz VC-TCXO, an external input, a PLL or the FPGA on the base module. The EVP6472-903 is supported by Windows 7 and Linux system environments and free Xilinx ISE Webpack software can be downloaded to target the Virtex-5 FPGA. TI’s Code Composer Studio 4.0 supports design for the C6472 multicore DSPs and a Firmware Control Module permits simple

and unrestricted access to all control registers from a user friendly CLanguage API. Christensen added, “we are better enabling Operators and OEMs to increase the performance and density of their infrastructure processing and at the same time use less direct and in-direct energy. It’s because of this, and the inherent energy efficiencies of multiprocessing architectures, that they are becoming an increasingly important solution with Green IT.” Further details and pricing information for the EVP6472-903 are available from http://www.evp6472.com/ or by contacting your local Sundance Sales Office. About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com.

For more information contact: Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793167 flemming.c@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America +1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235 jeremie.v@sundance.com

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990 david.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 5 October 2010

SUNDANCE FIRST TO COMBINE FPGA AND POWER-PC440 WITH PCI EXPRESS FOR PC/104 Offering the Industry’s Most Comprehensive, Complete and Flexible Support for the PC/104 Specification, Sundance Boasts Over One Hundred PCI/104 and PCI/104-Express Embedded Computing Board Solution. London, UK – 6, October 2010 – Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems has recorded its centenary product landmark for the PC/104 Embedded Computing specification. With the only solutions that combine FPGA and Power-PC440 with PCI Express for PC/104, Sundance has optimized the range to focus on High-Speed Data Acquisition, Image Processing and Communications applications. The Sundance Series 1 is the industry’s first product family architected around Xilinx multi-platform Virtex-5 devices with embedded PowerPC processor core. Two unique architectures are available: the SMT100 with 512Mbytes DDR2 SDRAM for data buffering and processing and the SMT105 that has an optimized mix of multiple QDR2 SRAM and DDR2 SDRAM memory banks for real-time signal processing tasks. The architectures also feature USB2.0 interface to the FPGA, RS232 interfaces, MicroSD/ Transflash, Fibre Optic modules, SATA ports, LVTTL I/Os, 32-bit PCI, 4-lane and 1-lane PCI Express links and stack-up or stack-down configurations for automatic detection. A range of IP cores are also available to support design integration and to accelerate timeto-market. “Longevity is one of the hallmarks of PC/104 technology and the approach taken by Sundance is aligned to our strategy and vision of providing a stable, long-term supply of PC/104 modules from the vendor community,” said Jeff Milde, Executive Director, PC/104 Embedded Consortium. “As an associate of the Consortium I’m delighted that Sundance has reached its centenary PC/104 product and this benchmark adds to the breadth and depth of PC/104 products that are available to PC/104 customers.” The Sundance PC/104 product family includes multichannel analog-to-digital digitizers for embedded sensor applications, imaging for hyper spectral camera devices onboard UAVs, DSP bricks with integrated RF front ends for small form factor portable radio transceivers and other high-speed MIMO RADAR, network communications modules and I/O peripherals. By building PC/104 products around Xilinx’s Virtex-5 FPGAs and by augmenting the devices with multiple DRAM and SRAM memory banks, intensive signal processing algorithms such as ultra long FFT engines can be implemented into the FPGA fabric to ensure realtime performance targets can be met while reducing system cost.

“When the PC/104 Consortium chose PCI Express as their standard for high speed bus in embedded applications it was because of its comprehensive market adoption, performance, scalability and growth potential,” said Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “Critically it provided a consistent and interchangeable path for the stackable PC architecture across the PC/104 Embedded Consortium's 104, EPIC, and EBX form factors. This foresight, and PC/104’s unique self stacking bus, has allowed the specification to mature, stand the test of time and enabled Sundance to grow and evolve a product family that now offers an incredible 100 modular product variations based upon the standard.” To fast track design entry into the Sundance PC/104 product family, software support is provided that enables the USB 2.0 to interface and move data to/ from any host computer in the ‘Stand-Alone’ mode or use the SMT004 that will allow using integration into a desktop PC. Alternatively a PCI/104 Host Controller can be used to interface to Disk, Keyboard and Display. Sundance provides support for Windows 7 and Linux system environments and Xilinx ISE Webpack development software can be downloaded for free to target the Virtex-5 FX30T FPGA. The PCI/104 community has more than 60 active companies that offer host controllers, additional IO, enclosures, power supplies and other services. The PCI/104 is a truly open standard and all technical details can be found at www.pc104.org. Further details and pricing information for Sundance’s PCI/104 product family are available from www.pci104.biz or by contacting your local Sundance Sales Office.

About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit http://www.sundance.com.

For more information contact: Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793298 flemming.c@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America +1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235 jeremie.v@sundance.com

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990 david.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE August 2010

12 DSP CORES, 6 GHz PERFORMANCE, 1 PLATFORM SOLUTION Sundance Launches New Family of Multicore Developer

Platforms

with

the

Debut

the

EVP6472-941. Integrates Best Power Performance Multicore DSPs from TI Delivering Cost-Performance Leadership for High Intensity Processing Applications. London – England

– 16, August 2010 - Sundance, the leading supplier and

manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today announced customer shipping of the first product from its new family of Multicore Developer Platforms (Sundance MDP). The EVP6472-941 is directly targeted at the new breed of high intensity processing applications where performance and energy efficiency are critical. Early adopter applications include digital recording, software defined radio (SDR), software reconfigurable applications in signals intelligence (SIGINT) and military communications (MILCOM) platforms. The

compact

form

factor

EVP6472-941

features

two

Texas

Instruments

(TI)

TMS320C6472 multicore DSPs with twelve TMS320C64x+™ processor cores clocked at 500MHz for real time processing tasks. A Xilinx Virtex-5 FX30T FPGA provides the coprocessor, with an embedded PowerPC440 processor core and a quad channel 14-bit ADC sampling at up to 250 MSPS. The EVP6472-941 offers two DDR2 SDRAM memory banks of 256MB assessable by each C6472 processor. “The advantages of multicore architectures are being increasingly embraced by the design community and TI’s C6472 delivers important improvements in performance, integration and density, along with efficiencies in power, cost and board space,” said Sandeep Kumar, business manager with Texas Instruments’ multicore and media infrastructure business. “As a member of our Developer Network, the new Sundance range of Multicore Developer Platforms makes it easier for developers and OEMs building the very highest performance applications to tap into the potential of the C6472.” The EVP6472-941 is supplied with a complete board support package including the USB drivers, software functions and API for Windows.

Essential tools are TI’s Code

Composer Studio 4.x that is supplied free of charge with the XDS100 USB JTAG Emulator for the C6472 DSP processor.

Xilinx ISE development software can be

downloaded from xilinx.com to target the Virtex-5 FX30T FPGA. A range of third party design tools for TI DSP and Xilinx’s FPGA also support the EVP6472-941; including 3L’s Diamond Multiprocessor Tool-Suite, RTW-EC and HDLCoder from The MathWorks™, comprehensive VHDL and Verilog support from EDA vendors, and Co-Developer and a growing range of IP-Cores from Impulse.

Extensive general purpose input/output (GPIO) connectors are available with the EVP6472-941.

Sundance Local Bus (SLB) interface to customize input/output (I/O)

signals, four RS-232 ports, Gigabit Ethernet connection, LVTTL lines for synchronization, MicroSD Flash socket as an extension of the on-board Flash memories and JTAG headers to enable DSP and FPGA debugging. “As we continue to see an uptick in business confidence and design starts, the launch of the EVP6472-941 signals a new generation of high intensity platform solutions architected around the C6472,” said Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd.

“Development of the EVP6472-941 reflects

the strength of our collaboration with TI.

As we roll out the new family of Multicore

Developer Platforms (MDPs), customers will have even greater flexibility to configure a platform solution that fits their power, performance and cost budgets.” The EVP6472 is available for order from EVP6472@sundance.com or by contacting your local

Sundance

Sales

Office.

information

can

found

http://www.evp6472.com/, pricing starts at $5,995USD About Sundance Sundance

designs,

develops,

manufactures

and

markets

internationally

high

performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers

the

wireless

and

signal

processing

markets.

Leveraging

its

multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based

systems

well

data

acquisition,

I/O,

communication

and

interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com. About the Texas Instruments Developer Network Sundance is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community of respected, wellestablished companies offering products and services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. www.ti.com/dspdevnetwork All product or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners More information: NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Tel: +44 (0)1494 793167 Flemming.C@sundance.com

USA Sundance America Sebastien Maury Tel: +1 214 272 3095 sebastien.m@sundance.com

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fabio.A@sundance.com

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens Tel: +852 3583 4283 Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: flemming.c@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 18th November 2009

HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF GATES AND BILLIONS OF MIPS: SUNDANCE RECORDS 20 MULTIPROCESSING YEARS

Anniversary Marks Two Decades of Technology Development, Product Innovation,

International

Expansion

Customer

Advocacy

for

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd London – England

– 18

Nov 2009 – Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced

digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today celebrates its 20th anniversary of design, manufacture and supply of multiprocessor systems. Thousands of systems have been shipped to customers across the world delivering hundreds of millions of gates and billions of MIPS processing performance. By consistently pushing the technology envelope, Sundance multiprocessor solutions have ignited innovation in the multiprocessor design ecosystem and driven multiprocessing into the mainstream for very high performance applications.

Earlier this month Sundance was the first to market with the

industry’s first off-the-shelf multiprocessor, multicore solution - the Sundance EVP6472 - which features dual Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320C6472 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd traces its roots back to 1989 when the founding team of Flemming Christensen and David Milsom set out to harness the benefits of closely coupling digital signal processors (DSPs) with nascent field programmable gate array (FPGA) technology.

Twenty years on

and hundreds of products later, Sundance stands as an industry leader and boasts an impressive array of corporate and technology partnerships, commercial presence in established and emerging markets and world class customer brands. Reflecting on this anniversary announcement Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd said, “I would like to thank our customers, old and new, for their faith, support and trust. When we shipped our first customer product, FPGA gate counts were measured in the thousands and DSP performance was a shadow of what is available today. We were using Inmos Transputer technology and exploring how to best connect and deliver multiprocessor solutions. We also laid down the foundations for our modular design philosophy and a commitment to forward and backwards compatibility, values that remain as the cornerstone of our product development strategy.” Today, Sundance ships multiprocessor products through offices across Asia, Europe and the US. They feature the very latest high density FPGAs from Xilinx, and the company’s most recent product announcement,

the

EVP6472,

features

dual

C6472

multicore

DSPs

from

Texas

Instruments

Incorporated (TI), that lead the industry in power consumption efficiency. The 500MHz C6472 is the best power performance multicore DSP with 0.15 mW/MIPS at 3 GHz performance. “Sundance has proven to be a key member of TI’s Developer Network whose solution, coupled with TI technology, has helped improve the design process for manufacturers,” said Tom Kelly, director of software partner network, TI. “Together we continue to provide products that drive innovation, keep

cost low and more importantly, provide the flexibility for developers to easily adapt to and accommodate evolving technology standards and requirements.” Sundance is also a member of The MathWorks Connections program and Sundance has worked hard to drive efficiencies and capabilities in the multiprocessor design ecosystem.

By constantly delivering

innovative products that feature the most advanced processing architectures, interconnect standards and memory configurations, a formidable array of joined-up design solutions now support the Sundance family of multiprocessor platforms: •

Code Composer StudioTM Integrated Development Environment from TI

•

3Ls Diamond multiprocessor software development systems

•

RTW-EC and HDLCoder from The MathWorks™

•

The PARS design tool that automatically generate targets code from Simulink® models for distribution across multi-DSP/FPGA hardware

•

Co-Developer from Impulse

•

Comprehensive VHDL and Verilog support from EDA vendors “The development and progress made by Sundance over the past 20 years is testament to the dedication, creativity and commitment of our staff,” said Christensen. “By working with, and listening to our customers, it is our employees who bring the tremendous wealth of ideas, innovation and drive to the organization.” To learn more about Sundance and its leadership in delivering multiprocessor solutions, please visit www.sundance.com, email enquiries@sundance.com or visit for your local Sundance Office. The recently announced EVP6472 is available for order with shipping in December 2009. For a time limited period

pricing

starts

$2000.00.

For

info.

EVP6472@sundance.comvisit

http://www.evp6472.com, or contact your local Sundance Office. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers and manufacturers of wireless infrastructures, satellite communications, industrial

signal processing, sonar/radar, software defined radio (SDR), multimedia and telecommunications, all depend on the flexibility of Sundance’s mixed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their products to market – FAST! Key design and manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, and mainland Europe and our worldwide network of agents – extending as far as Asia – provides quality service and support.

For more information contact: Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793298 flemming.c@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990

jeremie.v@sundance.com

david.h@sundance.com

+1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Chris Hamblin, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 793167 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: chris.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE November 3 2009

SUNDANCE FEATURES NEW Texas Instruments TMS320C6472 MULTICORE DSP IN ITS EVP6472 DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM

Sundance EVP6472 Embedded Development Platform Integrates Best Power Performance 3+ GHz Multicore DSP To Provide CostPerformance Leadership for High-Performance Applications

London, UK – 3 November 2009 -

Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer

of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, today extended its leadership in multiprocessor solutions through the introduction of its EVP6472 embedded development platform. multiprocessor,

multicore

solution

The EVP6472 is the industry’s first off-the-shelf that

features

dual

Texas

Instruments

(TI)

TMS320C6472 Digital Signal Processors (DSPs). Another industry first for the EVP6472 is design support from 3L’s Diamond multiprocessor tool-suite. Diamond enables easy access to the on-board 12 C64x+™ cores and allows the designer to rapidly build, model, test and iterate different design architectures by moving tasks between the processor cores. The EVP6472 is ideally suited to the development of high-performance applications such as high-end industrial, mission critical, test and measurement, communication, medical imaging, blade server and high-end image and video processing. It can be ordered online at www.evp6472.com or from your local Sundance Office. For a time limited period only, the EVP6472 is available at an introductory price of $2000.00. The six-core C6472 leads the industry in power consumption efficiency. The 500MHz C6472 is the best power performance multicore DSP with 0.15 mW/MIPS at 3 GHz performance. The 700MHz C6472 with a total 4.2 GHz performance and 4.8 MB on-chip L1/L2 memory is among the highest performance DSPs from TI. The C6472 architecture was designed to ensure a maximized subsystem performance on a chip. One of the advantages of this architecture is that in addition to dedicated Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2) memory to each core, C6472 features 768KB shared L2 program/data memory and a shared memory controller to facilitate high efficient and flexible inter-DSP core communications. For further technical features, go to www.ti.com/c6472-pr-3p. “Meeting the needs for today's leading-edge, high-performance applications, the C6472 supports applications that drive many channels, applications that demand maximum performance density and breakthrough applications for which designers must have access to sophisticated functions,” said Daniel Chen, product marketing manager, HighPerformance & Multicore Processing business at TI.

“This level of capability combined

with the Sundance multiprocessor format and modular flexibility will reduce the time-tomarket for developers and OEMs building high-performance applications.” The EVP6472 is provided with a TIM carrier card and a modular plug-in that features dual C6472 multicore DSP, a Virtex5 FX30 FPGA with embedded PowerPC, 2 banks of DDR2 memory, Rocket Serial Link (RSL) connectors and a host USB 2.0 interface.

The

development platform is supported by TI’s Code Composer Studio™ (CCS), and the 3L Diamond tool-suite that allows developers to separate the implementation of their application into: a software section based around communicating tasks; and, a hardware section built from processors joined by data-transfer links. Tasks can be placed on any of the twelve C64+ cores and the Diamond API allows the efficient exchange of data between

tasks.

Diamond

uses

its

built-in

device

drivers

support

uniform

communication, automatically using the shared memory between tasks and a virtual channel system is also available for deadlock-free data routing. “This product announcement is another landmark for Sundance and for our customers, and it reflects the strength of the relationship we have developed with TI over many years,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. said, “By coupling the cost performance advantages of the C6472 with a modular multiprocessing solution, we can deliver maximum development flexibility and the highest available performance/density ratio to application developers.” The EVP6472 is available for order with shipping in December 2009. For a time limited period pricing starts at $2000.00.

For more info. email EVP6472@sundance.com visit

www.evp6472.com, or contact your local Sundance Office. About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance

solution

provider

semiconductor,

pharmaceutical

and

factory

automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com. About the Texas Instruments Developer Network Sundance is a member of the TI Developer Network, a community of respected, wellestablished companies offering products and services based on TI analog and digital technology. The Network provides a broad range of end-equipment solutions, embedded software, engineering services and development tools that help customers accelerate innovation to make the world smarter, healthier, safer, greener and more fun. Trademarks Code Composer Studio and C64x are trademarks of Texas Instruments. All other trademarks and registered trademarks belong to their respective owners.

For more information please contact us:

Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793298 flemming.c@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 mailto:pascal.c@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America +1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990

jeremie.v@sundance.com

david.h@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Chris Hamblin, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793167

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: chris.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE

SUNDANCE BOOSTS 4G OFFER WITH NEW WIMAX SOLUTION

23/05/2009

Introduction of the SMT703 WiMAX Solution Underlines Sundance’s Position as one of The

Leading

Providers

Development

Systems for 3G and 4G

London – England and the WiMAX Forum Global Congress 09, Amsterdam 29 May 2009. Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA solutions today announced the release of its next generation WiMAX development system. Showcased at the upcoming WiMAX Forum, the SMT703 is a complete lifecycle solution

from

R&D,

design

verification

and

conformance,

deployment for Fixed or Mobile WiMAX designs.

through

network

The announcement provides

wireless OEMs with enormous performance and design flexibility and builds on Sundance’s

existing

portfolio

multiprocessor

solutions

for

advanced

communications technologies including LTE (Long Term Evolution) and MIMO. The SMT703 is built around a user programmable FPGA architecture that features the latest Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs. It is supported with two WiMAX RF transceivers that in turn are supported with a mixed signal front-end that integrates dual 12-bit ADCs and dual 12-bit DACs. For applications where increased processing logic is required or where the processing chain needs to be extended the scalable SMT703 is supplied with High-Speed Bus and RocketIO Serial Link connectors to attach additional multiprocessing modules or to interface to external signal generators or analyzers. “Being the current focus for the world’s WiMAX development community I’m delighted that we are able to launch the SMT703 at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress”, said Sebastian Maury, Sundance Region Manager for the Americas. “The rapidly developing WiMAX market provides a growth opportunity for Sundance and with the SMT703 we have defined a new standard for development systems in terms of performance, accuracy and modular flexibility.” Sundance are initially rolling out the the SMT703 to the WiMAX, MIMO and wireless chipset design segment, and the WiMAX verification market.

PXI Express

compliant, its FPGA architecture, logic density and reprogrammability make it ideally suited to design houses targeting custom silicon, and its capability to act as an RF front-end and processing module can be used to qualify WiMAX designs. The Maxim WiMAX transceivers mounted on the SMT703 are IEEE802.16-2004 compliant and support OFDM up to 64-QAM. They operate at 2.3 – 2.7 GHz and integrate a power amplifier driver, receive/transmit mixer, low-noise amplifier, receive/transmit filters, synthesizer, VCO, receive gain control, and transmit power control.

Each RF transceiver is coupled with a Mixed-Signal Front End chip from

Analog Devices that integrates two 12-bit ADCs (80MSPS) as well as two 12-bit DACs (200MSPS using interpolation), to provide analog and digital conversions.

“With increasing convergence and evolving standards in the wireless market communications market, high density FPGAs are a natural choice for designers who want to deliver high throughout, low latency, highly optimized and flexible designs”, said

Flemming

Christensen,

managing

director

Sundance

Multiprocessor

Technology Ltd. “The SMT703 WiMAX solution extends our leadership position and delivers the performance, user configurability and low power that today’s WiMAX products need.” The SMT703 can be supplied with a range of LXT, FXT or SXT Virtex 5 FPGA devices.

LXT devices are optimized for high-performance logic with low power

serial connectivity, with the SXT devices optimized for DSP and memory-intensive applications with low-power serial connectivity.

For embedded processing, high

speed serial connectivity and embedded PowerPC, customers can select FXT devices. For interfacing the SMT703 is fitted with SATA connectors and Fibre Optic modules carrying Virtex5 serial interfaces, LVDS Bus, RJ45 for gigabit Ethernet and a Rocket Serial Link (RSL) connector with 4 serial interfaces that are 3U PXI Express compliant. Pricing for the SMT703 is subject to FPGA configuration.

To reserve a product

demonstration at WiMAX Forum please email enquiries@sundance.com or visit www.sundance.com

About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers

and

manufacturers

wireless

infrastructures,

satellite

More information: Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 7850 911417 flemming.c@sundance.com

Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

+1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance South/Middle Europe, Middle East, India +39 0185 385193 fabio.ancona@sundanceitalia.191.it

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990

jeremie.v@sundance.com

david.h@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Chris Hamblin, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Chris.h@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 24/02/09

SUNDANCE BUILDS-OUT PXI EXPRESS PRODUCT LINE WITH SMT712 Sundance SMT712 Module Optimized for

High

Bandwidth

Enabled

Applications

PXI

Express.

Announcement Expands the Sundance 7-Series Family of PXI Express DSP/ FPGA Multiprocessor Solutions

London – England and

manufacturer

reconfigurable

FPGA

- 24 February 2009 – Sundance, the leading supplier advanced solutions

digital

today

signal

processing

announced

the

(DSP)

expansion

and its

multiprocessor PXI Express offering with the immediate availability of its SMT712 Dual DAC PXI Express Hybrid Peripheral Module. The SMT712 module is a dividend of the Sundance PXI product development roadmap that was announced in October 2008.

It demonstrates the Company’s ongoing

commitment and investment in the PXI open specification and brings extreme FPGA acceleration to PXI Express systems. The SMT712 integrates two fast 12-bit DACs, 2 banks of 64 bit wide 300MHz DDR2 memory and 8 lanes of 2.5Gbits/s PXI Express.

At the heart of the

SMT712 is a Xilinx Virtex 5 LX110T device, optimized for high performance logic and advanced serial connectivity. The device features 640 User I/O, 64 DSP48E slices and can access both 1GB DDR2 memory banks to store data on the fly. Optimized for wideband communications and radar applications the module’s Dual DACs feature an update rate up to 2.3Gsps and have four 12-bit multiplexed low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) input ports that operate up to 575MHz.

They have outstanding spurious and noise performance and

can be used for synthesis of wideband signals in the frequency range from DC to more than 2GHz. Their 2.3Gsps update rate allows digital generation of signals with more than 1GHz bandwidth. “With the SMT712 we can offer our PXI Express customers a multiprocessor module that is optimized for wideband communication, radar, wireless modem and software radio, in other words the types of high bandwidth applications that are best enabled by PXI Express,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. specification

components

means

the

SMT712

“Our choice and

delivers

best-in-class

performance and provides maximum flexibility for the systems interconnect.” As standard, the SMT712 is a 3U PXI Express peripheral module supplied with two PXI Express connectors: XP4 (PXI timing and synchronization signals); and, XP3 (x8 PCI Express and additional synchronization signals). The SMT712 dedicates 8 lanes to the PXI Express bus to give an effective bandwidth per

direction of 16Gb/s.

The standard SMT712 can plug in any PXI Express

Peripheral Slot or any PXI Express Hybrid Slot. Optionally, the SMT712 can be a 3U Hybrid Peripheral Slot Compatible PXI-1 Module that is supplied with the XP4 connector (PXI timing and synchronization signals) and the P1 connector (32-bit, 33MHz PCI Signals). PXI

open

specification

governed

the

PXI

Systems

Alliance

(www.pxisa.org) that defines a rugged, CompactPCI-based platform optimized for test, measurement and control.

Increased support for the specification

strengthens the penetration of Sundance products into markets where PXI standards conformance and rugged design are a must. For pricing information please contact your local Sundance sales office or email enquiries@sundance.com. For more information on the PXI Systems Alliance, go to http://www.pxisa.org. About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance

signal

processing

and

reconfigurable

systems

for

original

equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and

MathWorksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Connection

programs.

For

information

visit

www.sundance.com.

More information: NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 (0)1494 793167 Fax: +44(0)1494 793168

USA Sundance America Sebastien Maury

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy

Tel: +1 214 272 3095

Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

Flemming.C@sundance.com

sebastien.m@sundance.com

Fabio.A@sundance.com

Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: enquiries@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 28th January 2009

SUNDANCE UPGRADES MULTIPROCESSOR TO STORAGE INTERCONNECT WITH SINGLE CHIP SATA II SOLUTION

Sundance Teams With IP Specialist LogicDesign Solutions To Offer Single-Chip Serial ATA II Solutions For Its 7-Series of Multiprocessor Modules.

Extends Multiprocessing Reach in the Servers

and Storage, Video Storage and Aerospace and Defense Markets London, UK and Gournay sur Marne, France – 28 January 2009 Sundance,

the

leading

and

supplier

and

manufacturer

advanced

digital

signal

processing

reconfigurable FPGA systems, and LogicDesign Solutions, a specialist provider of interconnect IP and services for embedded FPGA systems, today announced the delivery of LogicDesign’s Serial ATA Host and Dual Host Controller IP for the Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs featured in the Sundance 7-Series of multiprocessing modules. The LogicDesign core is compliant with the Serial ATA II specification and supports signalling rates of 1.5Gbps SATA-Gen1 and scales to 3Gbps SATA-Gen2.

VHDL source code, test benches,

validation data and DO-254 documentation can be provided. The availability of LogicDesign’s SATA IP on Sundance 7-Series hardware offers designers a multiprocessing development environment that features PCI-X, PCI-E, GigE, SATA and fibre optic modules for interconnect. In the form of a shrink wrapped SATA II compliant 3L Diamond multiprocessing task, LogicDesign is the first IP provider to offer SATA IP that is expressly designed for multiprocessing systems. Its 3L Diamond task is a selfcontained block of code that incorporates the Transport layer, the Link layer and the PHY layer on a Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGA.

This unique offer enables quick and straight-forward

integration of LogicDesign’s SATA IP into the multiprocessor system design. “We are continuing to execute on our strategy of partnering with IP vendors and design tools providers to supply customers with complete multiprocessing solutions,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “Developers remain under constant pressure to deliver products on-time, on-cost and on-specification, and completely packaged offerings from multiprocessing hardware through design verification are an important step in helping them to achieve their goals.” The serial implementation of ATA is a high-speed serial replacement for the parallel implementation of ATA attachment of mass storage devices. Immediately available on Sundance hardware the LogicDesign Host and Dual Host Controller cores integrate the Transport layer, the Link layer and the PHY layer onto a single-chip, Virtex 5 FPGA solution.

It is fully synchronous with system frequency at 37.5MHz for Gen-1 speed

selection and 75MHz for Gen-2.

The core implements shadow registers and SATA

SuperSet registers, supports 8b/10b encoding and decoding and has state machine controlled power management (shared between PHY and Link layer). It features a 32-bit wide interface between the link layer and transport layer and a 128-word ingress/ egress FIFO between the transport and link layer. Serge Sciberras, managing director at LogicDesign Solutions noted, “With our core competence in developing IP for FPGAs in embedded systems, the move to a multiprocessing partnership with Sundance was an obvious decision. By providing DO254 documentation that supports the compliance of

electronic hardware in airborne

systems our SATA IP not only serves the video storage, and servers and storage

markets, but also the aerospace and defense markets, and Sundance has established channels in all these segments.” The 7-Series of multiprocessing modules from Sundance feature the fastest performing Virtex 5 FPGAs from Xilinx, C Series DSPs from Texas Instruments and are supported by an array of memory configurations, interconnect standards and design tools including 3L’s Diamond multiprocessor model and tool-suite, ISE from Xilinx and TI’s Code Composer Studio. Commenting further, Flemming Christensen said, “We chose to work with LogicDesign Solutions because of their track record in interconnect IP and their commitment to FPGA based solutions in a multiprocessing environment.

By providing a tightly integrated

SATA IP offer with our Virtex 5 hardware, customer design, verification and integration effort is reduced and the package is supported with comprehensive documentation and customer support.” LogicDesign’s Serial ATA Host & Dual Host Controller IP is available from your local Sundance sales office with prices being subject to choice of multiprocessor module. Email enquiries@sundance.com or visit www.sundance.com for more information About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance

solution

provider

semiconductor,

pharmaceutical

and

factory

automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more informationvisit www.sundance.com. About LogicDesign Solutions LogicDesign Solutions is an FPGA Design and Intellectual Property (IP) company providing IP core development, DO-254 methodology and Design Services. LogicDesign Solutions has extensive FPGA technology experience and particular expertise in high speed interconnect and ultra fast designs. LogicDesign Solutions develop VHDL cores for FPGA and provides services ranging from consulting to product development. For more information visit www.logic-design-solutions.com.

USA Sundance America Sebastien Maury

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy

Tel: +1 214 272 3095

Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

Flemming.C@sundance.com

sebastien.m@sundance.com

Fabio.A@sundance.com

Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE December 2008

SUNDANCE EXPANDS IP PORTFOLIO WITH IMAGING CORES FROM CADRE CODESIGN Sundance

Combines

DSP

FPGA

Multiprocessing Modules With JPEG IP From Cadre Codesign To Deliver Low Cost, High Performance Imaging Solutions to the Medical Imaging, Security and Machine Vision Markets.

London, UK and Montreal, Canada - 15 December 2008

– Sundance,

the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, announced today that is has extended its partnership with Cadre Codesign, a specialist provider of IP and embedded FPGA design solutions, to deliver Cadre’s CT-JPEG04 core across a range of it’s modular DSP FPGA multiprocessor hardware solutions. Based on the JPEG ISO/IEC IS 110918-1 standard image-compression algorithm, the core compresses images of 1280 x 1024 pixels resolution at a rate of 500 frames/sec and can sustain an input of one 8 bit pixel every 660MHz. This level of performance makes the solution ideally suited to applications where images are either analyzed on the fly or stored for later reference and analysis. The Cadre Codesign core significantly outperforms standard off-the shelf JPEG cores that can typically sustain inputs of 4MB (64K x 64K images) frames at 30 frames per second and generate outputs of 122 MB/sec.

Provided with a ModelSim

evaluation model the core will be initially available on Sundance’s Digital Video Infrastructure Platform (DVIP) that offers developers a complete, integrated solution for digital video development. Built on Sundance’s modular and infinitely-scalable multiprocessing concept, the DVIP leverages the performance and flexibility of two TI TMS320C6455 digital signal processors (DSP) and a TMS320DM642 DSP-based digital media processor. The 1GHz C6455 DSPs allow multiple processors to be connected via a Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO) interface and the DVIP incorporates Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs that are the implementation target for Cadre’s CT-JPEG04 core. The modular architecture of the DVIP allows customers to increase the processing performance in the field and add one of more than 40 additional variant modules that support the Sundance TIM (Texas Instruments Module) standard. As this standard is open-domain, it is also possible to integrate proprietary solutions. Design support is provided via 3L’s Diamond multiprocessor tool-suite that provides a highly automated development flow from concept through to applications running in multiprocessor hardware and Code Composer Studio from TI. Pierre Popovic, Cadre Codesign’s president commented, “a key issue facing developers

who

use

conventional

systems

storage

the

524

MB/sec

(monochrome) or 1.535 GB/sec (color) outputs generated by today’s high

performance cameras, and this is compounded by Bus technology that struggles to sustain more than 250 MB per second. By marrying our CT-JPEG04 core with FPGA technology we provide an optimal compression solution that overcomes the bus bottleneck and storage problem.” The agreement with Cadre broadens the Sundance offer to application developers targeting high-end video and imaging systems and is another addition to the IP ecosystem that supports Sundance’s multiprocessing platforms. “As we continue to increase the number of application optimized multiprocessor modules, we’ve aligned with IP providers to support their roll-out to particular customer segments and application groups,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “By strengthening our partnership Cadre, we

can

offer

greater

choice

to customers developing video and imaging

applications, whether they are in the military, research or enterprise space.” Available from your local Sundance sales office, prices are subject to module configuration and FPGA type. For more information email enquiries@sundance.com or visit www.sundance.com.

More information:

Flemming Christensen Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. +44 (0) 1494 793298 flemming.c@sundance.com Pascal Coppens Sundance Asia Ltd. +852 3583 4283 pascal.c@sundance.com

Sebastien Maury Sundance America

Dr. Fabio Ancona Sundance Italia S.R.L

+1-214-272-0395 sebastien.m@sundance.com

+39 0185 385193 fabio.a@sundance.com

Jeremie Veyret Sundance France +33 (0) 296412235

David Hirshberg Sundance Israel +972 (0)72 251 0990

jeremie.v@sundance.com

david.h@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 24th November 2008

SUNDANCE AND DILLON MARRY FASTEST FFT WITH FASTEST VIRTEX-5 LXT FPGA Sundance and Dillon Engineering Merge Signal Processing Expertise and FFT IP to Deliver

Benchmark

Performance

for

Embedded Defence, Industrial, Geophysical & Medical Systems London, UK and Edina, Minnesota - 24 November 2008 Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing and reconfigurable FPGA systems, announced today that is has partnered with Dillon Engineering, the leading provider of embedded DSP algorithms IP and services, to deliver a joint solution that provides leadership in the fixed width and floating point FFT FPGA market.

The solution makes available

Dillon’s benchmark portfolio of Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) IP on the Sundance SMT702 dual ADC, PXIe embedded computing module. By marrying Dillon’s cores with Sundance leadership in modular FPGA design, developers have access to a uniquely configurable, cost effective and high performance embedded solution. Area efficient, Dillon's FFT cores occupy fewer FPGA logic resources in terms of XtremeDSP slices and BRAMs than comparable off-the-shelf FFT cores.

Dillon's

IEEE-754 Floating-point FFT core sustains a rate up to 250Msps to deliver a 36 percent faster performance versus comparable cores. By offering a FFT length up to 64M points, Dillon’s core sets the industry benchmark. The joint solution is supported by design support from the 3L Diamond multiprocessor tool suite and a bit-accurate and MATLAB compatible C/C++ model, testbench, datasets and data generators. Dillon’s FFT cores are initially available on the Sundance SMT702 module.

They include pipelined for continuous

processing; parallel and dual parallel for concurrent processing and extreme performance of over 25Gsps; ultralong using the SMT702s external DDR2 SDRAM for long transforms up to 64M points; parallel butterfly; mixed radix; and 2D/3D multi-dimensional FFT processing. “Our highly parameterized cores can be quickly and easily tailored to meet the size, performance, and data processing needs of any application and any silicon target,” said Tom Dillon, president of Dillon Engineering. “This capability, coupled with the cost benefit, feature set and modular format of the SMT702, delivers a compelling embedded computing solution that is distinct in its performance and flexibility.” The SMT702 is fitted with the fastest Xilinx Virtex-5 LX110T-3 FPGA and delivers data rates of up to 250Msps and up to 64M points IEEE-754 single precision FFT. Optimized for high-performance logic with low-power serial connectivity, the FPGA is supported by 2 banks of 64-bit 512Mb DDR2 SDRAM and dual 3GHz ADC that can be combined to deliver 6 Gsps. 8-lanes of PXI Express deliver 16Gb/s of effective bandwidth per direction and the module can plug in to any PXI Express peripheral slot or any PXI Express hybrid slot.

Dillon Engineering’s pipelined floating-point FFT uses modular Radix-2 FFT architecture to provide discrete transform on data frames or continuous data streams, with sample rates up to the maximum clock frequency.

This efficient

structure employs a single butterfly and single delay feedback path per rank for low localized

memory

usage.

True

IEEE-754

floating-point

data

maintained

throughout, supporting a large dynamic range of data without requiring complicated fixed-point analysis. “By providing a home for Dillon’s cores on our SMT702 there is a clear path for PCIe and PXIe customers to access extreme FPGA FFT processing,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “Their industry-leading performance metrics and compact footprint unlock system gates and logic blocks inside the FPGA to yield greater opportunity, flexibility and potential for the application designer.” The SMT702 is immediately available with a number of different Dillon FFT IP options. Prices subject to FFT core and configuration. For more information email enquiries@sundance.com, contact your local Sundance sales office or visit www.sundance.com. About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com. About Dillon Engineering Dillon

Engineering

engineering

firm

specializing

DSP

algorithms

implemented in FPGAs and ASICs. Founded in 1989, Dillon Engineering, Inc., offers a wide variety of custom design services, with particular emphasis on FPGA-based digital signal processing (DSP) algorithms and high-bandwidth, real-time digital signal

and

image

processing

applications.

For

information

visit

www.DillonEng.com or email info@DillonEng.com.

USA Sundance America Sebastien Maury

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy

Tel: +1 214 272 3095

Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

Flemming.C@sundance.com

sebastien.m@sundance.com

Fabio.A@sundance.com

Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE

SIGNAL PROCESSING NIRVANA FROM SUNDANCE

October 22nd 2008

Sundance Goes Beyond 3G With ‘Radio Giga’

Reference

Platform.

Features

Virtex 5 Xilinx FPGAs, C Series TI DSP and 6 Channels of GHz ADC from e2v. Form Factor Means Radio Giga is 1U Ready

Embedded Systems Conference, Boston, MA - 22 October 2008

–

Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems has announced the introduction of Radio Giga to the high-end communications market. Designed for applications such as 3G/4G Radio, Wireless infrastructure applications, Broadband cable modem head-end systems and Software Defined Radio (SDR), Radio Giga provides designers with a cross technology platform (XTP) that is user configurable by processing fabric, architecture, comms ports and protocol.

Radio Giga will be

exhibited at the Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center, Boston MA 28th – 29th October 2008. Radio Giga’s XTP capabilities are driven by the Sundance commitment to modular design that integrates cutting edge multiprocessing technologies and backwards compatibility with already deployed architectures.

In its headline configuration

Radio Giga features multiple Virtex 4 and Virtex 5 Xilinx FPGAs, Dual C Series TI DSP engines with 260MBytes/s Serial RapidIO (SRIO) communication links, Power PC processor cores and 6 channels of low power GHz e2v ADC.

Being 1U

compliant, Radio Giga delivers incredible rack real-estate efficiencies and offers both Gigabit Ethernet and USB interconnect. “Feedback from the design community tells us that Ragio Giga is their signal processing Nirvana’, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. ‘It was expressly designed to deliver optimal performance into the high end comms market and its ‘X’…TP factor allows designers to switch between current and next generation technologies on a common platform. This delivers huge benefits in terms of verification, IP reuse and design migration.” To support I/Q demodulation and to get the digitizing accuracy needed for Radio Giga, Sundance selected dual 1Gsps ADC from e2v.

Its integrated demultiplexer

and easy interleaving are user friendly and easy to use, and its low power characteristics were consistent with Radio Giga’s small energy footprint. 6 channels of GHz e2v ADC are available on Radio Giga for maximum bandwidth. “The selection of e2v high speed data converters by Sundance is further recognition of the high level of performance needed for next generation applications,” said Andrew Benn, product marketing manager at e2v. “This choice underscores e2v’s commitment to excellent electrical performance and low power consumption (700mW/channel) without compromising on integration and flexibility via the 3-wire serial programming interface.”

With an operating frequency of 1GHz and 2MB on-chip level 2 cache each, the dual C6455 TI GHz DSPs deliver the highest fixed point processing power in the C6000 family.

Design support is available from TI’s Code Composer StudioTM and 3L’s

Diamond multiprocessor tool suite, and Radio Giga’s hardware conforms to the Texas Instruments Module (TIM) standard. “TI is committed to providing the highest levels of performance available to help innovative customers achieve the needed functionality for processing intensive applications,” said Primo Castro, product line manager, TI. “By taking advantage of TI’s high performance programmable DSPs, Radio Giga is able to provide a user configurable technology platform to help differentiate their solutions for advanced communications devices.” In addition to dual C6455 TI GHz DSPs, Radio Giga features the most powerful FPGAs from Xilinx. Virtex 4 and Virtex 5 FPGAs provide massive parallel processing resources

well

embedded

PowerPC

cores,

multiple

RocketIO

serial

transceivers and the highest amount of DSP blocks. To reserve a Radio Giga product demonstration at the Embedded Systems Conference,

please

contact

Sebastien

Maury

Sundance

America;

sebastien.m@sundance.com or call +1-214-272-0395. Sundance can be found at booth #215 in the main exhibition hall at the Hynes Convention Center. Radio Giga is immediately available from Sundance’s international sales offices with prices subject to configuration. About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Program, Xilinx Alliance Partner and MathWorks’ Connection programs. For more information visit www.sundance.com. More information:

USA, NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 (0)1494 793167 Fax: +44(0)1494 793168

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 29 September 2008

SUNDANCE DEBUTS PXI EXPRESS PRODUCTS AND INKS DEAL WITH KANE COMPUTING Sundance

Rolls

Out

PXI

Express

Solutions For DSP/ FPGA Multiprocessor Systems at the Embedded Systems Show (ESS), Becomes a Member of the PXI System Alliance and Partners With Kane Computing London England, 29 September 2008 – Sundance, the leading supplier and

manufacturer

advanced

digital

signal

processing

(DSP)

and

reconfigurable FPGA solutions today announced that it will be debuting a range of PXI Express products at the Embedded Systems Show, 1st – 2nd October in Birmingham, UK. Supporting the Company’s PXI Express product roll-out will be Kane Computing a specialist provider of image processing, DSP and high performance computing (HPC) solutions. PXI Express support strengthens the penetration of Sundance products into target markets where PXI standards conformance and rugged design are a prerequisite. Product roll-out will begin with Sundance’s SMT7 Series that covers more than 25 modular PXI Express DSP/ FPGA solutions. Showcased at the ESS will be the SMT702 that provides 8-lanes of PXI Express and features 2 channels of 3 GHz ADC that can be combined to deliver 6 Gsps, and high density Xilinx Virtex 5 LXT FPGA devices optimized for logic and serial I/O.

The generic product

building block is the SMT700 that introduces extreme FPGA acceleration to PXI Express systems. Commenting on the Sundance announcement Matthew Friedman, PXI Platform Marketing Manager at National Instruments said, “As a member of the PXI community, I welcome Sundance into the large group of successful companies that work together within the PXI Systems Alliance.

Sundance’s technology

will lend itself well to the high bandwidth applications enabled by PXI Express.” PXI

open

specification

governed

the

PXI

Systems

Alliance

http://www.pxisa.org that defines a rugged, CompactPCI-based platform optimized for test, measurement and control.

The newly announced PXI

Express support is a tangible dividend of Sundance’s growth strategy and roadmap for product innovation.

Traditionally Sundance have supplied self-

contained and ‘Bus-Less’ modules for customers who wanted the option of choosing a host platform and then building their solution using Sundance’s modular components.

Sundance now has the capability to provide rugged,

very high performance DSP and FPGA modular solutions to a wider design audience and a rapidly growing PXI market.

Supporting Sundance’s PXI Express announcement is Kane Computing who will act as the Company’s exclusive distributor for the United Kingdom. ‘We had early sight of the Sundance product roadmap and are delighted to be their PXI Express partner’, said Richard White, managing director of Kane Computing. ‘There is a community of designers and large customer base who, by necessity, need to design using industry standard products, and for many PXI is their preferred solution.

This announcement opens the door to the compelling

partnership of very high performance FPGA/ DSP with PXI Express.’ Sundance’s new PXI Express solutions will debut at the Embedded Systems Show in Birmingham, England 1st – 2nd October 2008. For Show information, go to http://www.embedded.co.uk/ or email enquiries@sundance.com.

For

more information on the PXI Systems Alliance, go to http://www.pxisa.org.

About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance

signal

processing

and

reconfigurable

systems

for

original

MathWorks’

Connection

programs.

For

information

visit

www.sundance.com. About Kane Computing KCL (www.kanecomputing.co.uk) has been providing Image Processing, DSP and high performance computing products for use in industry, education and research since 1987. KCL has extensive knowledge and experience of providing video processing solutions for many industries. KCL is a Texas Instruments Third Party Partner, supplying development tools and consultancy. KCL has a policy of continual improvement and operates its business in accordance with the requirements of ISO9001:2000. KCL is also approved under the Investors in People programme. More information:

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE

SUNDANCE EXPANDS OEM COMPONENT BUSINESS

8th September 2008

Sundance Rolls Out OEM Component Business Across Its Range Of Sub-Modules and Daughter Cards Including MIMO, GigE and WiMax. Supports Territory Expansion and Extends Market Reach.

London, England, 8 September 2008 – Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced that it is building-out its OEM component business to include a much broader range of function specific sub-modules and daughter cards.

The initiative is part of the Company’s strategy to further

extend its market reach through better customer access to its Card Store and IP library. Cards and modules available under the OEM solutions banner range from Dual MIMO RF through Dual WiMax RF; Camera Link, Dual Gigabit Ethernet and DAQ modules from 125MHz through 1GHz. Across the range there is a choice of form factor, on-board memory configurations and max Bus speeds up to 1.25Gbps.

Design Packages of IP are available that include source code,

schematics and VHDL. The rich seam of IP, cards and sub-modules within the Sundance OEM portfolio is a dividend of the Company’s long-standing and on-going investment in product development and manufacturing capacity in the UK and China. Because Sundance OEM solutions are pre-optimized and pre-verified they play an increasingly important part in OEM risk reduction and product verification strategies.

Time to market can be reduced and competitive advantage

strengthened through a fast and straight forward route to pre-optimized module based component solutions. “Through our OEM strategy, customers and partners have the ability to drive cost out of their production through our manufacturing economies of scale and investment in IP development, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “The direct impact is fast access to a constantly growing portfolio of off-the-shelf IP and hardware modules that deliver competitive advantage in terms of cost, management of risk, integration and time to market.” At the core of the Sundance OEM solution is conformance to the Texas Instruments Module (TIM) standard and open bus architecture that extends the life-time of ADC/DAC and I/O designs.

Sundance modules enable an easy

migration path across multiple generations of FPGA technology and easy interconnect with TI DSP in a multiprocessor environment.

For more information about the new range of Sundance OEM solutions contact your local Sundance Office or email enquiries@sundance.com. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all highspeed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers and manufacturers of

wireless infrastructures, satellite communications, industrial signal processing, sonar/radar,

software

defined

radio

(SDR),

multimedia

and

telecommunications, all depend on the flexibility of Sundance’s mixed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their products to market – FAST! Key design and manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, and mainland Europe and our worldwide network of agents – extending as far as Asia – provides quality service and support.

More information:

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com High-res image: ftp://ftp2.sundance.com/pub/images/Newsletters/XXXX.tiff

PRESS RELEASE JUL/2008

SUNDANCE MODULAR ACCELERATION PLATFORM OPTIMISES THE COMPUATION MIX

High Performance, High Reliability ‘RASS’ Solution Provides the Industry’s Most Adaptable SuperComputing Accelerator Platform Supported by Commercially Available Industry Standard Design Tools

London England 28 July 2008–Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced availability of its RASS Reconfigurable, Accelerating, Scalable SuperComputing solution.

The dividend of more than

20 years multiprocessor design experience, the RASS has been created to easily

integrate

with

existing

High

Performance

Computing

(HPC)

infrastructure and is supported by a widely available and mature design ecosystem.

Designed to integrate with industry standard processors and computing infrastructure, the RASS features a modular, interchangeable array of high performance FPGAs and GPUs to deliver high performance, low latency and flexibility across single precision and double precision computation applications. By exploiting parallel processing techniques and modular design, the RASS delivers a small foot print, energy efficient, high density solution to applications in the capital markets, life sciences, National Laboratories and computational fluid dynamics (CFD)

At the heart of RASS are banks of tightly coupled Xilinx Virtex 5 FPGAs that include 640 Xilinx XtremeDSP slices capable of delivering up to 352 GMACs of performance.

Sitting on a carrier, multiple FPGAs can be connected via a

Rocket Serial Link (RSL) I/O interface and the architecture is adaptable to different applications and computation demands. Over 20 different daughter card and processing fabric combinations available.

The SMT148-FX carrier offers SATA, USB 2.0, FireWire, Gigabit Ethernet, RS485, RS232, LVDS interfaces. It also contains a Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA that includes two PowerPC cores that can be used as interface controllers, leaving the FPGAs free for extreme coprocessor acceleration.

“Closely coupling reprogrammable parallel processing architectures with other processing fabrics such as DSP and high-end GPU has been the core of our business for the last 20 years.

By introducing RASS as a true platform

technology, the dividend of this experience is now available on a scalable platform that can be tuned and easily adapted for high density computation

across a range of applications,” said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd .

“With this single platform and

portfolio of daughter cards the differentiation that RASS delivers is clear and our customers are optimising the computation mix more simply and effectively than ever before.”

The massively parallel processing capabilities of RASS significantly lower energy consumption to yield lower cooling costs and a lower cooling BOM. It delivers a market leading performance per watt and its small foot print enables significant real estate savings in space constrained data centres.

To mitigate the learning curve and risk of reliance upon proprietary tools and languages, the RASS platform is supported by widely available industry standard design tools and languages.

Design support from the The

MathWorks , Xilinx, 3L Diamond, Impulse, HDL and C/C++ providers offers a readily available and integrated development environment.

The design

ecosystem enables immediate access to libraries of intellectual property including Navier-Stokes, Black-Scholes, LINPACK, Monte Carlo and Amber.

The RASS is immediately available from Sundance with prices subject to carrier and processing fabric configurations.

About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance

signal

processing

and

reconfigurable

systems

for

original

MathWorks’

Connection

programs.

For

information

visit

www.sundance.com.

More information: USA, NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44(0)1494 793167 Fax: +44(0)1494 793168

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: info@sundance-asia.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 High-res image: ftp://ftp2.sundance.com/pub/images/Newsletters/351T.tiff

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE June 9th 2008

DSP/FPGA MULTIPROCESSING DEVELOPMENT TOOLS HALVE PROTOTYPE TIME AND ACCELERATE PERFORMANCE 10X Sundance to Impulse C Link Lets TI DSP Users Easily Add Custom Processing Elements, Partition and Refactor Logic via Xilinx FPGAs as Multiprocessors. London England and Kirkland Washington — 9 June 2008 — Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced a partnership with Impulse Accelerated Technologies Inc., creators of the CoDeveloper suite of Cto-FPGA

design

tools.

The

announcement

builds

upon

recent

joint

development work between Impulse and 3L Ltd, creators of the Diamond DSP/ FPGA multiprocessor development systems and strategic Sundance partner. The news squares the circle for extreme co-processor acceleration using a tightly integrated software to heterogeneous system design flow. Designers using the CoDeveloper tools now have access to more than 200 Sundance Xilinx FPGA/ TI DSP modular platform solutions. Sundance solutions are optimized for applications such as Software Defined Radio (SDR), MIMO, High Speed DAQ and very complex video and signal processing.

The target

processing elements include the highest performance Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, hard and soft-core embedded microprocessors such as the PPC405GP, and the highest performance C6000 series DSP from Texas Instruments. The Impulse CoDeveloper tools allow C-language applications to be quickly and efficiently retargeted to FPGA-based platforms.

CoDeveloper is used for

embedded systems, signal processing and high performance computing. Compatible with the 3L Diamond FPGA multiprocessing tools, the Impulse C-toFPGA compiler generates hardware outputs that can be implemented into Sundance platforms, including the RASS - Reconfigurable, Accelerating, Scalable Super Computing solution that delivers low power, extreme parallel processing performance. “The programming model is increasingly seen as the key to unlocking the true potential of multicore and multiprocessing architectures, and our partnership with

Sundance

opens

new

possibilities

for

designers

targeting

DSP/FPGA/microprocessor systems”, said David Pellerin, Founder and CTO of Impulse. “For the DSP and embedded systems designer in particular, we offer the lowest barrier-to-entry design solution for system partitioning and creating hardware modules and processor peripherals from software code.”

With the addition of CoDeveloper, the Sundance design ecosystem now boasts a formidable array of joined-up design solutions including Code Composer Studio from TI, 3Ls Diamond multiprocessor software development systems, RTW-EC and HDLCoder from The MathWorks™, the PARS design tool that automatically generate targets code from Simulink® models for distribution across multi-DSP/FPGA hardware, and comprehensive VHDL and Verilog support from EDA vendors including Synplicity. “In the multiprocessing era the traditional divide between software and hardware is blurred and anachronistic”, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. performance

DSP

combined

with

leading

edge

“Easy access to high FPGA

and

embedded

microprocessor technology offers a compelling solution for the optimization of price, power, performance and flexibility, the issues that are the dominant preoccupation of today’s system designers.” About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets internationally high performance

signal

processing

and

reconfigurable

systems

for

original

MathWorks’

Connection

programs.

For

information

visit

http://www.sundance.com/. About Impulse Impulse products allow developers of advanced embedded, DSP and image processing systems to rapidly move applications originating in ANSI C to FPGA coprocessors.

The Impulse CoDeveloper tools are in use by software and

hardware application developers worldwide, in domains that include image processing, DSP, secure communications and high performance, hardwareaccelerated computing. For more information on Impulse C-to-FPGA software, or to register for a free web seminar, visit www.ImpulseC.com. More information:

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE May 2008

SUNDANCE SETS NEW BENCHMARK FOR DSP-FPGA FIELD UPGRADABILITY SMT351T Modular Solution Extends Sundance

Leadership

Field

Upgradeable DSP-FPGA Systems, Features a Virtex-5 SX95T Device and Conforms to the Texas Instruments Module Standard

London – England

– 12th May 2008 – Sundance, the leading supplier and

manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced availability of the SMT351T, its highest performing FPGA based modular solution.

The announcement demonstrates

Sundance’s unrivalled capability of providing easy access and customer succession to the latest FPGA-DSP technology. The SMT351T is pin compatible and functionally identical to predecessor Sundance modules stretching back more than a decade.

It conforms to the Texas Instruments Module (TIM)

standard and provides a fast and low risk route to adopting Virtex®-5 technology in a modular DSP-FPGA environment. “With their highly integrated modular platforms, Sundance has demonstrated from the outset a strong commitment to product integrity and compatibility”, said Pierre Popovic, chief executive officer of Codesign Technologies Inc. “In selecting a hardware platform vendor for our image compression and image processing algorithms IP’s we also had to consider implementation tools. Sundance has scored high points on all counts with their SMT351 product line.” Designed to be integrated into a wide range of modular systems the SMT351T features the Virtex-5 SX95T device that includes 640 Xilinx XtremeDSP slices capable of delivering up to 352 GMACs of DSP performance.

The FPGA has

direct access to 2GBytes of DDR2 RAM and a configuration PROM enables the module to be used stand-alone. connected DSP module.

FPGA configuration can be made from a

It is supported by an array of connectors and

interfaces including four RSL (Rocket to Serial Link) connectors for data transfer rates of up to 2.5GB/s, LVDS connections for high speed parallel connections, LVTTL and 3 x 20-way SLB connectors. “The Virtex-5 SX95T device gives developers a high-performance FPGA optimized to deliver significant levels of DSP performance and system integration capabilities,” said Tim Erjavec, director of embedded and DSP marketing at Xilinx.

“Because the Sundance solution is compatible with

previous Virtex generations, customers can easily migrate their designs to the latest FPGA devices from Xilinx.”

Mounted onto a carrier card, the SMT351T is ideal for applications such as Software Defined Radio (SDR), MIMO and very complex video and signal processing. It is available immediately from Sundance and provides maximum flexibility and field upgradability to a range of FPGA and DSP systems. Commenting on the strategy of forward and backwards compatibility Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd said, “In the early 90s we pioneered the use of FPGAs in a multiprocessor, heterogeneous environment and succession planning was a corner stone of our design philosophy. Today this approach is paying dividends for partners and customers who not only benefit from an assured migration path to new technology, but also an IP environment that is rich in legacy and new IP.” Editor Note: Photos

the

SMT351T

are

available

from

Sundance

Microprocessor

Technology Ltd. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all highspeed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers and manufacturers of

wireless infrastructures, satellite communications, industrial signal processing, sonar/radar,

software

defined

radio

(SDR),

multimedia

and

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail:flemming.c@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE April 2008

SUNDANCE GEARS-UP TO ENABLE NEXT GENERATION GROUND AND AIR COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES WITH E2V

SMT8121 Platform Solution Enters its Second Generation Delivering 1 Gsps Performance from e2v for Real-Time Aerospace, Defence, and Carrier Grade Communications Applications.

London, England — 18 April 2008 — Sundance, the leading supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable FPGA systems today announced availability of its second generation, high performance SMT8121 communications development platform.

The announcement coincides with a decision by the UK’s

communications services regulator Ofcom to permit the use of mobile phones on aircraft. Passengers’ own mobile phone handsets will be able to connect to an on-board base station and access a range of communications services.

Already used as the environment of choice for High Speed Direct IF by some of the world’s leading electronics companies, the SMT8121 delivers 1Gsps sustained performance and features high performance, low power FPGAs and DSPs connected to multi-channel high speed data converters from e2v.

The SMT8121 is a modular system comprising e2v’s

AT84AD001BCTD Dual 8-bit 1Gsps ADC, multiple Xilinx Virtex II Pro and Virtex 4 FPGAs, TI C64 DSP and DAC technology from Fujitsu. Used for multi-carrier/ multi-standard cellular systems, high direct-IF infrastructures, radar systems and test equipment the SMT8121 provides two input and two output channels each sampling at 1Gsps.

“In the SMT8121 we have a platform that is geared to supporting an array of next generation communications services and roadmap applications for the hand-set manufactures and cellular base-station providers”, said Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “The SMT8121 supports the drive for a Software Defined Radio platform that can handle Direct IF, and its low power and high performance mean it is a practical solution in environments that range from the boardroom to the battlefield.

With plans now confirmed for

airlines to offer mobile communication services we are also seeing

interest from the developers of advanced in-flight communications systems.”

With the SMT8121 focused on applications where fast sampling speed (up to 2Gsps), flat spectral output , high input analog bandwidth and very low power consumption are key factors, the dual channel ADC data converter from e2v technologies was selected by Sundance developers. The e2v solution not only met the GHz performance and low power specification needed for the SMT8121, but also provided a user-friendly serial programming (3-wire) interface for rapid design and set-up over a range of target markets including aerospace, defense and satellite.

“Our fast GHz ADC technology has provided a benchmark for design flexibility, ease-of-use and performance for numerous applications including software radio, test equipment and communications” said Andrew Benn, Product Marketing Manager at e2v. “e2v continues to provide technology

leadership with higher performance and greater

design flexibility with the Quad 8-bit 5Gsps ADC. The investment made by Sundance in our ADC technology is testament not only to the technical performance of our solutions but also the cost advantage we provide in very high performance systems.”

The SMT8121 is fully supported and supplied with the 3L Diamond design environment that allows the user to easily and efficiently implement algorithms on any of the available DSPs, FPGAs and PowerPCs. Hostside software interface to the PC is included and the solution is supported by TI’s Code Composer Studio. Available immediately from Sundance, the SMT8121 provides maximum flexibility and field upgradability to a range of FPGA and DSP parts. The SMT8121 maintains the legacy tradition of Sundance’s forward and backwards compatibility.

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: flemming.c@sundance.com

Editor Note: Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services Supporting photos of the SMT8121 are available from Sundance Microprocessor Technology Ltd. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers

and

manufacturers

wireless

infrastructures,

satellite

communications, industrial signal processing, sonar/radar, software defined radio (SDR), multimedia and telecommunications, all depend on the flexibility of Sundance’s mixed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their products to market – FAST! Key design and manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, and mainland Europe and our worldwide network of agents – extending as far as Asia – provides quality service and support. Web: http://www.sundance.com/ About e2v e2v technologies is a leading designer, developer and manufacturer of specialised components and subsystems, falling within two product groups: • Electronic tubes • Sensors and Semiconductors These products enable some of the world's leading OEMs to deliver innovative systems for medical and science, aerospace and defence, and commercial and industrial applications. For the year ended 31 March 2007, e2v achieved sales of £174m and is listed on the London Stock Exchange (e2v.l). e2v has approximately 1,800 employees worldwide with three UK based manufacturing sites in Chelmsford, Lincoln and High Wycombe, and one in Grenoble, France and one in Corcelles, Switzerland. In addition e2v has sales offices in the UK, USA, Germany, France and Hong Kong, as well as a network of distributors and representatives covering other key territories. Further information on e2v technologies plc is available from its website, Web: http://www.e2v.com e2v Press contact: Sylvie Mattei, Communications Manager Phone: +33 4 76 58 30 25 Email: sylvie.mattei@e2v.com

More information:

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Via Le Fontane 31/7, 16040 Leivi (GE),, Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

E-mail: flemming.c@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE 04/01/2008

TOP ADC AND DAC MODULE GOES INDUSTRIAL London – England

– 04/01/2008 – In response

to popular industrial demand for its power-house DAQ module, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology of Chesham have created

a new version of the

best-selling SMT370, reengineered into an industrial variant. The standard SMT370 has for five years provided physicists, researchers,

SMT370-I

system engineers and scientists with a high-quality and tightly integrated analogue interface for their digital signal processing applications. Now, In addition to the installation of Industrial-rated components, the heat sink and fan arrangement of the standard version has been replaced by a custom-made anodized aluminium heat sink which doubles as a Faraday cage, protecting the analogue signals from noise.

With no air-flow the

system is rated to an ambient temperature of 40ºC, with no moving parts to replace. “After five years’ success as a flagship dual-channel ADC and DAC module, it’s time this flexible and capable product was available for more industrial purposes” said Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of the dynamic Chesham enterprise. “This is a significant milestone in our programme to bring our modular FPGA and DSP power to industrial applications.” The little SMT370-I offers a pair of 14-bit ADCs clocked at 105MHz and a pair of 16-bit DACs clocked up to 400MHz with interpolation.

These

integrated with its large Xilinx™ Virtex™-II FPGA, the module can be combined with Sundance’s extensive range of DSP, FPGA, storage and radio modules to create full digital processing systems from COTS parts. With comprehensive support from 3L Diamond FPGA, the SMT370 is easily integrated into complex arrays of modules, with all the otherwise tiresome configuration and communication functions handled behind the scenes using a simple but powerful GUI. The SMT370-I is available now for a 10-off price of $6245, with OEM prices available on request. Sundance modules are supported by comprehensive firmware and softwaredevelopment

tools

from

leading

suppliers,

including

TI,

Xilinx

and

MathWorks. The use of Diamond tools from http://www.3l.com will kickstart any development using its leading-edge Eclipse-based IDE. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure

to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems. Designers and manufacturers

wireless

infrastructures,

satellite

communications,

industrial signal processing, sonar/radar, software defined radio (SDR), multimedia and telecommunications, all depend on the flexibility of Sundance’s mixed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their products to market – FAST! Key design and manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, and mainland Europe and our worldwide network of agents – extending as far as Asia – provides quality service and support. Web: http://www.sundance.com/SMT370

More information:

E-mail: SMT370@sundance.com

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FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

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PRESS RELEASE

NEW IMAGE PROCESSING DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM EMPOWERS SYSTEM DESIGNERS

18/10/2006

London – England A new FPGA and DSP co-design platform for developing image processing equipment, the SMT339, has been launched by Sundance Multiprocessor Systems.

At the core of the new board are the lightning fast

Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320DM642 DSP-based digital media processor and Xilinx Virtex-4 FX-60 FPGA. TI’s TMS320DM642 processor has been specially designed to optimise image processing performance with a stunning capability of 5760MIPS at a clock rate of 720MHz. The Xilinx Virtex-4 FX-60 FPGA boasts 622Mbps to 10.3125Gbps serial transceivers for high-speed serial input/output.

The huge processing power of

the FPGA speeds functions such as colour space conversion (CSC) and discrete cosine transforms (DCT), while Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) and convolution can be implemented without using any of the DSP’s resources. Boosting performance there is 16MB of fast ZBTRAM and 128MB DSP SDRAM. "Sundance DSP is a valued partner of Xilinx and have a strong track record of delivering high performance development platforms.

The SMT339 seems well

positioned to complement the portfolio with a platform that demonstrates the dramatic performance boost that FPGAs bring to a co-processing environment," enthused, Mark Oliver, marketing manager multimedia video and imaging, of Xilinx’s DSP division. Image processing is an essential part of everyday life.

At home, HD TV,

interactive gaming and media streaming is now common. In hospital, scanning equipment is delivering instant and more accurate images for doctors.

industry, simulators of all kinds enable complex and often hazardous tasks to be practiced in artificially created worlds.

Security systems from iris scanning to

automatic number plate recognition all depend on image capture, processing and interpretation.

Many applications also rely on the ability to achieve high data

compression rates specified by H.264 and MPEG-4, the natural replacement for the overworked MPEG-2 standard. “In designing the SMT339, we have listened carefully to our customers: system engineers, researchers and scientists interested in imaging systems and optics – working

fields

diverse

broadcasting and video editing.

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aerospace,

medical,

security,

military,

They all share a common need for a fast

USA Sundance DSP Inc. Dr. Nory Nakhaee 4790 Caughlin Parkway 233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, U.S.A. Tel: (775) 827-3103 Fax: (775) 827-3664

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 (0)1494 793167 Fax: +44(0)1494 793168

email: Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

DSP/FPGA design platform tailored to the demands of image processing,” commented Sundance systems manager Justin Wheatley. The

SMT339

also

decoder/encoder.

features

Phillips

SAA7109AE/SAA7108AE

video

This accepts most PAL and NTSC standards and can output

processed images in PAL/NTSC or VGA (1280x1024, or HD TV Y/Pb/Pr). Software support is from TI’s Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and 3L's Diamond FPGA. These allow SMT339 users to quickstart their development of cutting-edge image processing functions with live processed image output. The hassle associated with integrating industry-leading hardware is eliminated. “Sundance, a member of the TI DSP Third Party Network, continues to offer highquality solutions based on TI’s processor and tools technology,” commented Rich Faust, worldwide DSP third party network manager.

“Sundance’s video and

imaging expertise coupled with the reliability of TI’s high-performance processors will facilitate innovation across a variety of imaging applications.” The SMT339 module can be plugged into a standard single width TIM slot and can be accessed by either a standard comport or RSL interface. The module can also run stand-alone – making it an ideal platform for embedded applications. As a powerful, versatile COTS image processing development platform, the SMT339 is unrivalled and is essential for the creation of advanced digital imaging products.

Designers

wanting

technical

details

should

visit

www.sundance.com/smt339.

More information in UK: Sebastien Maury, DSP System Analyst, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: CIPR0446@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com More information in USA: Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc. 4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664 E-mail: CIPR0446@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

About the Texas Instruments DSP Third Party Network: Sundance Multiprocessor Systems is a member of the TI DSP Third Party Network, a worldwide organization of independent companies that offer products and services supporting TI DSPs.

TI third parties provide expertise across a

variety of applications, including audio, control, telecommunications, video and imaging and wireless communications. Third party products and services include a broad range of application software, development hardware and software, and consulting services that support original equipment manufacturers’ efforts to bring differentiated products to the market quickly. For more information about the TI DSP Third Party Network, please visit www.ti.com/3p. Acronyms COTS – commercial off the shelf DSP – digital signal processing FPGA – field programmable gate array HDTV – high definition TV MIPS – million instructions per second MPEG – moving picture experts group NTSC – national transmission standards committee PAL – phase alternation line RSL – rocket serial link TIM – Texas Instruments module ZBT – zero bus transfer

PRESS RELEASE 01/10/2007

Floating Point FFT IP-Core Lands on Scalable Video Platform from Sundance London – England - 01/10/2007 The

new

Digital

Video

Infrastructure

Platform

(DVIP) from Sundance features from three to eleven fixed-point DSPs, equating to as much as 50000 MIPS (millions instructions per second). Where that is still not sufficient floating-point calculation power for the most demanding real-life application, the DVIP gets a helping hand from closelycoupled Xilinx® Virtex™-4 FX60 FPGAs. The FC100 Floating-point FFT IP-Core implemented in the FPGA is designed using a radix-32 architecture to make it flexible, portable, and use as few external memory resources as possible.

Even then it’s possible to re-

configure its complex data range from 256-point to 1M-point on-the-fly. It is ideally

suited

high-powered

Image

Processing,

Radar

Video

Encoding/Decoding systems. A single IP-Core will process 42 frames of a Video 2D transform each second on single 1024x1024 images and that will take less than 1/2 of the 128 XtremeDSP™ Slices available on a Virtex-4 FX60. The DVIP has three of these FPGAs as standard and up to four more FPGAs can be added. The easiest way to visualize the power of combined fixed-point DSP and an FPGA enabled with the FC100 is a trip down memory lane, as Flemming Christensen, CTO of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd observes: “I can vividly remember when I was given an Intel 8087 math coprocessor in the early ‘80s to increase the performance of my Workstation PC. It was awesome. The 8087 could do 50000 FLOPS (floating point operations per second) whereas the DVIP can offer 50000 Mega FLOPS and still costs less than my old PC.” The FC100 is available in either VHDL source format or can be supplied as a ‘task’ to integrate into the Xilinx’ “System Generator for DSP” or The MathWork’s “Simulink” tools. It has been verified to the IEEE-754 standard and comes with full simulation and implementation support. A bit-true model for performance evaluation is provided free of charge for evaluation purpose. “Sundance has done an exceptional job integrating high performance DSP functions with Xilinx’ FPGAs. By leveraging three high-performance Virtex-4 FX60

devices,

performance,”

the

DVIP

platform

said

Bruce

Weyer,

delivers senior

impressive marketing

transform

director

the

Programmable Solutions Group at Xilinx. “The development of the FFT IPCore as a co-processor is the perfect technology match for demanding image processing solutions”

The DVIP is available now from a starting price of USD25000.00 in single quantities with OEM prices on request The FC100 IP-Core starts at USD10000.00 for the basic version. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems.

Designers and

manufacturers of wireless infrastructures, satellite communications, industrial signal processing, sonar/radar, software defined radio (SDR), multimedia and telecommunications, all depend on the flexibility of Sundance’s mixed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their products to market – FAST! Key design and manufacturing facilities are located in the UK, and mainland Europe and our worldwide network of agents – extending as far as Asia – provides quality service and support. Web: http://www.sundance.com/dvip More information:

E-mail: DVIP@sundance.com

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FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Flemming Christensen, Managing Director, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS

Tel. +44 (0)1494 793298

Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 High-res image: ftp://ftp2.sundance.com/pub/images/Newsletters/DVIP.tiff

E-mail: e-mail@sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE

SUNDANCE’S DIGITAL VIDEO PLATFORM GETS HELPING HAND FROM SIMULINK HDL CODER FROM THE MATHWORKS

21/08/2007

The

latest

Digital

Video

Infrastructure

Platform

manufactured by Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd., London, England now supports Simulink HDL Coder from The MathWorks. This integration will enable embedded software engineers to target field-programmable gate-arrays (FPGAs) without detailed knowledge of programming such devices.

London – England

–

21st

August

2007

–

The

Digital

Video

Infrastructure Platform (DVIP) from Sundance has been developed for the highest

performance

High-Definition

Broadcast

systems

High-

Resolution Image Processing for Medical applications. Such video processing applications have become a perfect target for manufacturers like Xilinx who make re-configurable devices (FPGAs). The smallest of the family of DVIPs has no less than three Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs and sports in the region of 15 million spare gates for users to program with their own algorithms. The biggest issue in using these devices was the lack of suitable tools that were designed for software scientists, and not hardware engineers. Another issue was simulation and portability. Simulink HDL Coder and The MathWorks Model-Based Design tools have removed those barriers.

They have also been incorporated to into 3L’s

Diamond suite of multiprocessor tools, allowing ‘Tasks’ to be placed on combinations of DSPs and FPGAs. “Now, engineers can implement Digital Video applications on the Sundance FPGA/DSP using Simulink Models,” says Ken Karnofsky, marketing director, signal processing and communications, at The MathWorks and continues “The DVIP simplifies hardware implementation by providing a platform that combines Texas Instruments DSPs and Xilinx FPGA processing.” “Our customers have struggled for years with getting FPGAs to be really useful as a processing machine”, says Emmanuel Puillet, FPGA Manager of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. “Simulink HDL-Coder combined with DVIP will make porting applications much more predictable as our customers would have simulated and verified the processing using The MathWorks tools before targeting our hardware”

The ‘glue-middleware’ that combines Sundance’s hardware and The MathWorks tools is developed by the long-established Scottish company 3L Ltd. and Hendri Veldman, Software Director, 3L Ltd said: “It took one dedicated FPGA firmware engineers less than 2 days to learn all about The MathWorks’s tools and within the following day we had Simulink HDL-Coder generating applications running on Sundance’s hardware using Diamond FPGA. It was impressive” The DVIP is available now from a starting price of USD25000.00 in single quantities with OEM prices on request. About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems. Designers and manufacturers

wireless

infrastructures,

satellite

communications,

E-mail: HDL@sundance.com

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

FAR EAST & OCEANIA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: HDL@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: HDL@sundance.com High-res image: ftp://ftp2.sundance.com/pub/images/Newsletters/DVIP.tiff

PRESS RELEASE

DIGITAL VIDEO OEMS TO BENEFIT FROM SCALEABLE INFRASTRUCTURE PLATFORM FROM SUNDANCE

09/07/2007

Sundance Provides Digital Video Infrastructure Platform based on Texas Instruments’ DSPs

London – England bandwidth

surveillance

- July 9, 2007 – Responding to the need for higher

high-definition

and

compression

video

applications

technologies,

for

broadcast,

Sundance

video

Multiprocessor

Technology today announced the availability of its high-performance Digital Video

Infrastructure

Platform

(DVIP).

The

platform

offers

original

equipment manufacturers (OEM) a complete, integrated solution for digital video development. Built on Sundance’s modular and infinitely-scalable multiprocessing concept, the

DVIP

leverages

the

performance

and

flexibility

two

Texas

Instruments Incorporated (TI) TMS320C6455 digital signal processors (DSP) and a TMS320DM642 DSP-based digital media processor. The 1GHz C6455 DSPs allow multiple processors to be connected via a Serial Rapid I/O (SRIO) interface, a concept that is well suited to Sundance’s modular hardware.

Additionally, the infrastructure platform incorporates Xilinx

Virtex-4 FX60 FPGAs with the capacity to implement IP-Cores from leading compression suppliers to perform real-time encoding and decoding. The modular architecture of the DVIP allows OEM customers to increase the processing performance in the field and add one of more than 40 additional variant modules that support the Sundance TIM (Texas Instruments Module) standard.

As this standard is open-domain, it is also possible to

integrate proprietary solutions. “TI is seeing an increasing demand for commercial-off-the-shelf OEM solutions

that

use

our

leading-edge

digital

multimedia

DSPs,

and

Sundance's DVIP supports a range of demanding applications therein,” said Andy Richardson, business development manager, TI. “The TMS320C6455 DSPs add a level of scalability to the DVIP that will make it a popular development environment for OEMs.” The interface to end equipment is handled by two PowerPC 405 generalpurpose processors that can be found at the core of the Virtex-4 FPGA. The factory default options are high-speed USB 2.0 (480Mbits/sec), 1Gbit Ethernet, and Low-Voltage Differential Signals (LVDS) for display. RS485 and IP-Cores can be sourced for FireWire, SATA (hard disk interface), PCI Express, and other I/O standards or bespoke interfaces.

The DVIP is available now from a starting price of USD25000.00 in single quantities with OEM prices on request. The

DVIP

development

supported tools

from

comprehensive

leading

suppliers,

firmware including

and TI,

softwareXilinx

and

MathWorks. Optionally, the use of Diamond tools from www.3l.com will kick-start any development and provide a leading-edge Eclipse-based IDE. “The DVIP is an impressive platform and is perfect hardware for 3L's multiprocessor DSP and FPGA tools,” said Dr. Peter Robertson, Managing Director of 3L Ltd.

“Sundance has given us a perfect launch pad for the

Diamond IDE” About Sundance Sundance leads the world in the design and manufacture of mixed COTS digital signal processing and FPGA architectures. Sundance modular and customizable COTS hardware and software systems are easy to reconfigure to suit all high-speed I/O and signal processing applications, enabling the rapid prototyping and development of embedded systems. Designers and manufacturers

wireless

infrastructures,

satellite

communications,

E-mail: DVIP@sundance.com

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

CHINA Sundance Asia Ltd. Pascal Coppens 1202, 12/F, Golden Star Building, 20 Lockhart Road, HONG KONG Tel: +852 3583 4283 Fax: +852 2810 4009

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Pascal.C@sundance.com

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd, Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: DVIP@sundance.com High-res image: ftp://ftp2.sundance.com/pub/images/Newsletters/DVIP.tiff

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Develop Imaging Systems with the Right Mix of Technology You can harness the combined strengths of DSPs and FPGAs to create a powerful imaging system.

by Justin Wheatley Systems Manager Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Limited justin.wheatley@sundance.com Imaging applications demand quite a range of processes to be performed in a single application. Although you can use multiple DSPs to provide more power and design nearly any function in a large enough FPGA, this is not usually the easiest, cheapest, or most efficient approach. High-level imaging algorithms like object recognition are best suited to the agility of a modern image processing DSP, while FFTs, edge enhancement, or MPEG-4 encoding would be better left to the vast parallel power of a large highspeed FPGA. The obvious answer is to mix the two technologies (as discussed in the article, “The Benefits of FPGA Coprocessing,” from the Third Quarter 2006 issue of the Xcell Journal), but DSP and FPGA designs are quite disparate disciplines, involving very different techniques, skills, tools, and usually people. These differences create obstacles to a fluid codesign process. Thus, the idea of using both technologies together can prove rather unpalatable to a specialist in one of the two fields – and even more so to an expert of neither. Integrating the hardware itself also presents a significant amount of work that you could avoid if you stuck with just one technology. 38

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April 2007

SLB Interface Board Peripherals Camera Link, CMOS Sensor, FireWire, USB Audio, Ethernet, IDE, etc.

A Tough Act – To Follow Figure 2 shows how the image data flows through the hardware resources when configured for our person-tracking imaging system. Video is captured by the video decoder and fed to the FPGA. The decoder can handle a variety of different input formats from PAL/NTSC CVBS or separate YC. Alternatively, you can input digital video through a daughtercard digital interface module.

ZBT RAM 2M x 18 bit x 2

SLB Interface

Performance Awaits Your Command Figure 1 illustrates the hardware. The Texas Instruments Module (TIM) form-factor SMT339 is mounted on a carrier that might be PCI, PCI-X, VME, CompactPCI, or even stand-alone. The carrier provides a home and power to the module and usually an interface to a host computer. A variety of analog video formats can be connected to the system through its video decoder. Alternatively, a range of digital video sources may be connected to the appropriate I/O daughtercard. The input sources are routed to the FPGA, which is a 60,000-logic-cell Xilinx® Virtex™-4 FX60 device. The data can be preprocessed here before passing to the DSP. The FPGA has two independent 8-MB banks of ZBTRAM, which are ideal for frame stores for the various pre- and post-processing functions performed on the FPGA. The DSP is a Texas Instruments TMS320DM642 video digital signal processor. You can program it using Texas Instruments’s Code Composer Studio, which is fully software-compatible with the C64x DSP range. Clocked at 720 MHz, it is capable of 5.76 GMACs per second and is linked to the FPGA by three bidirectional video ports, with more ports for control and other data. All of the illustrated interconnections are already implemented in the FPGA, leaving you free to implement the specific functions required for your application. The DSP also comes with 128 MB of fast SDRAM. This 64-bit-wide memory holds the image buffers for the DSP and program/data space. There is an output from the FPGA to a video encoder so that a live image (raw,

part, or fully processed) can be displayed directly on a monitor – which is particularly useful when developing algorithms. Digital output may be obtained from the appropriate I/O daughtercard attached to the Sundance LVDS bus (SLB) interface or from high-speed serial links: connectivity to and from other modules is provided by 16 Xilinx RocketIO™ channels in the form of four Sundance rocket serial links (RSLs), giving the system significant expandability.

120

Video IP 2

SAA7109AE/108AE Video Decoder/ Encoder

Virtex-4 XC4VFX60 -10 FPGA

8 MB FLASH

SDRAM 128 MB

Video IP 1

Video Port 0 Video Port 1 Video Port 2

20 20 20

EMAC

8 4 8

McBSP McASP

Fixed-Point Image Processing DSP TMS320DM642 @ 720 MHz

8 8 8 4

Analogue OP 1 CVBS

Analogue OP Header RGB/CVBS 1 x 6 way 2 mm

Top RSL Header

Bottom RSL Header

LEDS

TIM ComPorts 2&3

JTAG

TIM Connector J1/J2

Figure 1 – Hardware diagram of the imaging module (SMT339)

SLB Interface Board Peripherals Camera Link, CMOS Sensor, FireWire, USB Audio, Ethernet, IDE, etc.

SLB Interface

In this article, I’ll review the SMT339 from Sundance, a powerful, off-the-shelf development system for imaging solutions created to help design teams realize competent imaging applications in a small, flexible, and highly expandable unit. A typical imaging function, such as a tracking system that highlights any person moving in a video image, suitably illustrates the features of the SMT339.

ZBT RAM 8 MB

Digital Image

Data Flow SDRAM 128 MB

Figure 2 – Person-tracking system data flow diagram DSP magazine

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The FPGA pre-processes the incoming video stream using one of the ZBTRAM banks as an image buffer. A slow-moving reference image is maintained by iterating each pixel by one bit per frame towards its value on the current image. The current image is compared with the reference image to calculate a difference image. A great feature of this system, with its large and powerful FPGA, is that it is very easy to experiment with different preprocessors – like spatial filters, edgeenhancement filters, or histogram functions – and see the results immediately on the system’s live output. The calculated difference image, together with the current image, is passed to the DSP for analysis. The DSP performs a detection algorithm on the difference image, extracting the silhouette and looking for the characteristic shape of a person in the moving parts of the image. Various properties of a person detected in the field of view can then be calculated from this, such as: • The coordinates of the corners of a region of interest around the person • The center point (calculated as the mid-point of the region’s corners) • Their center of gravity (based on the center of the area of their silhouette)

• The coordinates of their entire outline (possibly returned in a binary overlay image of the scene) The FPGA then post-processes this information, recombining it with the source image. For example, you could overlay an outline around the person, change their color, or perform other manipulations. The results of the calculations are then available on a live video output (as shown in Figure 3), but they may also be output through the daughtercard or through other interfaces for transfer to, logging, or display on digital video systems. The Software Supporting Role This all sounds great in principle, but any DSP engineer is sure to wonder what sorcery would be required to realize such a cooperative combination in practice. Fortunately, the SMT339 (as with Sundance’s many other modules) is supported by a comprehensive environment of development tools conceived to address this very problem. Besides the many VHDL cores and DSP library modules available, a coherent software model is necessary to simplify the overall application development for these mixed-processor systems. Diamond from 3L Limited provides this model by

Figure 3 – The Sundance SMT339 in a simple system

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describing multiprocessor systems as a number of independent tasks that communicate over channels. Whether these tasks are executing on DSPs or FPGAs, Diamond manages the interconnections and programming so that you can concentrate on their application. Diamond uses the FPGAs on Sundance DSP TIMs by automatically adding the engineer’s tasks to the standard Sundance firmware. These tasks are created in VHDL or tools such as Xilinx System Generator, or they can be standard netlist files, allowing you to bring proprietary cores into the system and mix them with standard and user-developed cores. Diamond automatically adds the logic to allow the tasks to communicate with other tasks; it then builds an FPGA bitstream using the standard Xilinx tools. This technique creates a hardware independence that allows you to make major changes to the underlying hardware without having to change any code. It is now possible to expand the hardware by adding DSPs or FPGAs as required, without so much as a recompilation. Repositioning a task on a different DSP reduces to only a tiny change in a single text file. Thus, when more processing power becomes necessary, you can add it at will, and none of the existing development is made redundant. Even if a task needs to be moved from a DSP to an FPGA for acceleration, the surrounding functions are not affected. Conclusion The subtle art of combining the respective strengths of FPGAs and DSPs can be simplified by starting with a scalable system whose delicate integration is already complete. Supported by a comprehensive software environment, such complex hardware can become both adaptable and accessible, allowing its collective power to be finely tuned to the desired application. After the solution is developed, with such a modular approach, you can then create a production system efficiently from offthe-shelf modules. For more information on creating FPGA and DSP systems, please contact XL1@sundance.com or visit www. sundance.com. April 2007

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HD Digital Video, Telecom and IP OEMs to Benefit from New Scaleable Twin DSP and FPGA Based Development System

06/11/2006

London – England It is often said ‘two heads are better than one’ when it comes to solving problems. The new SMT362 from Sundance Multiprocessor Technology takes this to heart. At its core are not one but two Texas Instruments TMS320C6455 DSPs and the long awaited Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA. A scaleable, modular TIM design, with a huge range of connectivity options, makes the SMT362 the ideal development platform for original equipment manufacturers to design and deliver the next generation of HD based video infrastructure, telecom and IP devices. With an operating frequency of 1GHz and 2MB on-chip level 2 cache each, the TMS320C6455 DSPs have the highest fixed-point processing power in the 'C6000 range. These, combined with the stunning Virtex-4 FPGA FX60, that boasts nearly 60,000 logic cells and 16 RocketIO serial transceivers, allow users of the SMT362 to gain breakthrough performance at the lowest cost. It never takes long for OEMs to explore the processing power limits of a new board. This is not a problem for the SMT362 – it is designed to scale-up the DSP and FPGA capability by simply connecting with additional SMT362s or other TIMs. Massive raw processing power on tap combined with an almost limitless ability to scale-up, are compelling reasons for OEMs to use the SMT362 as a more productive alternative to ASICs and ASSPs. However, Sundance did not stop there; they have integrated 256MB of DDR2-500 SDRAM for each of the DSPs giving developers an even greater ability to implement complex DSP tasks. DSP engineers developing the telecoms backbone to meet growing expectations and demand will benefit from the increased capacity and productivity the SMT362 has to offer. So too will the developers of equipment for heavy users of integrated audio/video in teleconferencing, high definition imaging in the medical world, HDTV broadcasting and so on – the very applications that place great demand on the telecommunications infrastructure. Achieving ‘fast time to market’ is all important in the highly competitive and fast paced telecoms, broadcast and IP product arena. By taking care of the highspeed digital video hardware, Sundance have allowed designers to concentrate on

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

email: Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

implementing their own algorithms using the two powerful DSPs and the cuttingedge FPGA. Comprehensive software tools are provided to make algorithm implementation easy so OEMs can quick-start their development of advanced video infrastructures, HDTV, IP and telecoms technology. Software includes TI’s Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and 3L's Diamond FPGA. “When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 and Edison the Kinetoscope in 1891, they could never have envisaged how the technologies would merge to become the audio visual experience without wires possible today. However, I am sure if they were with us now, they would love to have a piece of kit like the SMT362 to bring their applications alive in double-quick time,” commented Sebastien Maury, DSP system analyst with Sundance Multiprocessor Technology. The SMT362 is the ideal DSP and FPGA platform for developers of digital video products and follows hot on the heels of the SMT339, its analogue-video cousin, launched just a few weeks before. Sundance are happy to advise on the selection of DSP and FPGA development platforms. Designers and OEMs wanting technical specifications of the SMT362, a powerful, versatile COTS development platform, should visit www.sundance.com/smt362. More information in UK: Sebastien Maury, DSP System Analyst, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: CIPR0451@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com More information in USA: Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc. 4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664 E-mail: CIPR0451@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com High res image can be downloaded from: http://www.clickintopr.com/editors/articleDetail.asp?pjID=451

Acronyms ASIC – application-specific integrated circuit ASSP – application specific signal processor COTS – commercial off the shelf DSP – digital signal processing FPGA – field programmable gate array HDTV – high definition TV IP – internet protocol MIPS – million instructions per second MPEG – moving picture experts group NTSC – national transmission standards committee PAL – phase alternation line RSL – rocket serial link SDRAM – synchronous dynamic random access memory TIM – Texas Instruments module ZBT – zero bus transfer

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NEW BOARDS UNLEASH DSP POWER – WITH A GREEN TWIST!

21/09/2006

London – England When is enough DSP power, enough? never!

In rapid prototyping, the answer is

With this in mind, the new SMT348 and SMT368 from DSP experts,

Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, pack extreme DSP processing-power density and are designed to deliver performance like Ferraris on steroids. Based on the Xilinx Virtex4 range, the SMT348 features 16MB of blistering fast QDRII memory; ensuring ample capacity to develop today’s demanding applications. With 8MB of ZBTRAM, the lower cost SMT368 is also more than capable of reducing prototype development times. Besides raw speed, both the SMT348 and SMT368 are scalable and futureproof.

They include SHB interfaces and the SLB (Sundance LVDS Bus)

interface. These provide quick and easy connection to Sundance’s rapid ADC and DAC modules, such as the SMT390 (capable of 210MSPS) and the SMT391 (capable of 1GSPS), for data acquisition or software radio systems. Also, they are both in the Sundance TIM-compatible form-factor.

This ensures they

integrate easily with a large range of other DSP and FPGA modules. Not just impressive stats, importantly, this all adds up to a tremendously quick platform for developers of Multi-carrier/Multi-standard cellular systems, High Direct-IF infrastructures and RF Test Equipment applications.

Also SDR

development teams, scientists, satellite, Radar, WiMAX, 3G and other RF system developers, researchers, aerospace engineers and Matlab modellers, will all appreciate the capability and return on investment promised by such a rapid prototyping tool. DSP system analyst with Sundance, Sebastien Maury, explained, “The introduction of the SMT348 and SMT368 means Sundance can offer rapid prototype development teams more than 250 possible combinations of COTS DSP, FPGA and TIM boards to meet their constantly changing needs.” So what is the Green twist? The SMT348 and SMT368 are one hundred percent compliant with the RoHS (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous

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USA Sundance DSP Inc. Dr. Nory Nakhaee 4790 Caughlin Parkway 233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, U.S.A. Tel: (775) 827-3103 Fax: (775) 827-3664

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

email: mailto:Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemmig.C@sundance.com

Substances) directive. The modules are built on Sundance’s in-house vapourphase production process.

Sundance’s QA manager, Ann Rosenhagen,

commented, “From my time at the London School of Economics, I have always been interested in the impact of products on the environment. It is great to work with a company that takes the issue seriously and is taking a lead to reduce harmful waste.” Full specifications of the new DSP modules are available on the web at http://www.sundance.com/twist. The company is also happy to advise on their suitability for particular applications. In the UK call +44 (0)1494 793167 or in the US call (775) 827 3103. More information in UK: Sebastien Maury, DSP System Analyst, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: CIPR0274@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com More information in USA: Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc. 4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664 E-mail: CIPR0274@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com Acronyms 3G

– 3rd Generation wireless format

ADC

– analogue to digital converter

CDMA

– code division multiple access

COTS

– commercial off the shelf

DAC

– digital to analogue converter

DSP

– digital signal processing

FPGA

– field programmable gate array

GSPS

– giga samples per second

HDTV

– high definition TV

– intermediate frequency

MSPS

– mega samples per second

QDR

– quad data rate

– radio frequency

RoHS

– restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances

SDR

– software defined radio

ZBT

– zero bus transfer

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DSP EXPERTS LAUNCH NEW RF DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM TO HELP DEVELOPERS BRING PRODUCTS TO MARKET QUICKLY

25/05/2006

London – England Digital systems design and development continues apace, new tools to speed the process are in continual demand. With this in mind a new RF development platform, the SMT8101, has been launched by Sundance Multiprocessor Technology. Combining the technology of four boards in one PCI-(or Compact PCI) compatible board, it promises to boost rapid prototyping and help development teams to get their products into production and to market quickly. It is also available in VME and stand-alone forms. With the explosion in HDTV applications, the SMT8101 is the ideal flexible, scalable and future-proof tool to help design teams meet current demands and those yet to be discovered. Equally, it will be more than match for Multicarrier/Multi-standard cellular systems, High Direct-IF infrastructures and RF Test Equipment applications. SDR development teams, scientists, satellite, WiMAX, 3G and other RF system developers, researchers, aerospace engineers and Matlab modellers will all appreciate the capability of the SMT8101. The first of the four modules that make up the SMT8101 includes a 1GHz 64-bit TMS320C6416T DSP that offers exceptional fixed point processing and is scalable using Xilinx Virtex II Pro FPGAs. The second module is capable of sampling two analogue inputs at 1Gsps with a resolution of 8 bits. An Atmel dual channel ADC (AT84AD001) performs the analogue to digital conversion. From two signals provided by the DSP, the third module outputs two analogue signals with a resolution of 14 bits at 1Gsps. A Fujitsu dual channel DAC (MB86064) performs the digital to analogue conversion. The fourth module is a quad (4) site module carrier developed to provide access to TIM modules over the PCI bus running at 33MHz with a 32-bit data bus. The card has an ‘onboard’ JTAG ACT8990 controller. This allows Code Composer Studio and 3L Diamond applications to be used to debug/upload software to the modules. Sure to interest the Multi-carrier/Multi-standard cellular systems developers is the implementation of CDMA and UMTS. This helps make the SMT8101 an ideal tool for creating 3G and beyond applications for the telecoms market.

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USA Sundance DSP Inc. Dr. Nory Nakhaee 4790 Caughlin Parkway 233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, U.S.A. Tel: (775) 827-3103 Fax: (775) 827-3664

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

email: Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemming.C@sundance.com

This all adds up to an impressive specification, but what it really means for the developer is stunning performance combined with flexibility. The SMT8101 is a 1Gsps throughput ADC-DSP-DAC, COTS, development platform. As a modular TIM system, with Xilinx RocketIO serial I/Os for up to 1GByte/s interaction with other equipment, it is easy to set-up and connect with other TIMs and systems. The high-level development tool range includes Matlab Simulink-compatible Xilinx System Generator and 3L Diamond making it easy for users to program the SMT8101. A JTAG diagnostic port is provided to simplify and speed debugging. Full specifications of the SMT8101 area available from the Sundance web site: www.sundance.com/w.asp?p=SMT8101. The company is also happy to advise on the suitability of the SMT8101 for particular applications. In the UK call +44 (0)1494 793167 or in the US call (775) 827 3103. From the forefront of aerospace and medical device engineering, through laboratory and research, to home consumer products, the processing of digital signals has become a way of life. With the SMT8101, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology continues to make the tools that allow the developers to create the future. High res image can be downloaded from: http://www.clickintopr.com/editors/articleDetail.asp?pjID=269 Acronyms 3G

– 3rd Generation wireless format

ADC

– analogue to digital converter

CDMA

– code division multiple access

COTS

– commercial off the shelf

DAC

– digital to analogue converter

DSP

– digital signal processing

FPGA

– field programmable gate array

HDTV

– high definition TV

– intermediate frequency

PCI

– peripheral component interconnect (personal computer bus)

– radio frequency

SDR

– software defined radio

TIM

– Texas Instruments module

UMTS

– universal mobile telecommunications system

VME

– versa module Eurocard

WiMAX – worldwide interoperability for microwave access

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Sundance launches its most powerful FPGA module with parallel processing software !

Jan 11, 2006 Contact: Dr. Nory Nakhaee Nory.N@Sundancedsp.com

RENO, NEVADA, January 11, 2006 - Sundance, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable computing platforms, today announced the availability of the new and powerful SMT498 module based on the Xilinx Virtex II-Pro XC2VP100 FPGA. This module is equipped with an in-system configuration, System ACE SC, which configures FPGAs on power-up. Its main features among others are: • •

• •

SMT498 a Virtex II-Pro XC2VP100 FPGA module

• •

up to 256 MB of DDR2 SDRAM 5 Sundance High Speed Bus (SHB) or 4 SHB interfaces plus an FPDP port through a Spartan FPGA 14 Rocket IO (RSL) interfaces IEEE 1386 standard PrPMC form factor with conduction cooling 64bit / 66 MHz PCI interface Parallel processing software upport by Diamond from 3L, allowing easy use of both the FPGA and the PPCs embedded in it.

The SMT498 is designed to interface to other Sundance products including A/D, D/A, DSP, Imaging and Communications modules. “This module is a powerful addition to our extensive family of Sundance products where it can serve as a pre-processing, post-processing or as a stand alone module in any type of signal processing and conditioning applications” explains Dr. Nory Nakhaee, President and CEO of Sundance DSP in Reno, Nevada.

The SMT498 is supported by standard software packages from Sundance and 3L. Full support from 3L Diamond is a major development in FPGA software technology. Applications can now include multiple tasks targeting both the embedded PPCs and the FPGA itself. Diamond will generate a single application file containing all the PPC code and the bit stream for the FPGA; booting this file will automatically configure the FPGA, load the PPC, and start everything running.

EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES USA Sundance DSP Inc. Dr. Nory Nakhaee 4790 Caughlin Parkway 233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, U.S.A. Tel: +1 (775) 827-3103 Fax: +1 (775) 827-3664

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 1494 793298 Fax: +44 1494 793168

email: NoryN@sundance.com

email: mailto:Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemmig.C@sundance.com

“3L is responding to customer requests by providing full support for the SMT498 through our advanced FPGA and DSP interfaces. With the SMT498 package, customers finally have means and tools to implement their performancedemanding applications within a simple yet powerful and well-defined environment", adds Dr. Peter Robertson, Managing Director of 3L." “The new SMT498 module builds on a strong track record of delivering reconfigurable computing platforms based on Xilinx DSP-based devices", said Narinder Lall, Senior DSP Marketing Manager, Xilinx. "The module helps customers to leverage the platform capabilities of Xilinx FPGA-based reconfigurable DSPs and get to market faster.”

About Sundance Sundance is a UK-based, ISO 9000 Compliant, independent company headquartered Chesham, U.K., and with offices in the United States and Italy. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as, Data Acquisition, I/O, Communication, and interconnectivity products that are so essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are important. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a Xilinx Xperts and MathWorks’ Connection program member. About 3L 3L Limited is an independent Scottish software company that has been providing multiprocessor development systems worldwide since 1987. 3L concentrates on modular systems built from the C6000 family of DSPs from Texas Instruments and FPGAs from Xilinx, and has supported applications running on from one to over a thousand processors. www.3L.com 3L@3L.com

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LEADING DSP INDUSTRY FIGURES HEADLINE TI DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE

06/03/2006

Buckinghamshire – England A ‘must see’ interactive workshop on how to deploy powerful DSP and FPGA system solutions using C-based and model-based design will take place at the Texas Instruments Developers Conference. Presented by Flemming Christensen, managing director of Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, and Dr Steve Chappell, director of applications engineering at Celoxica, the workshop is sure to interest researchers, scientists, DSP project managers, engineers and developers, system designers and integrators and developers of high performance embedded systems. The TI event hits Birmingham on March 30 and the European series also rolls into Paris, Munich and Tel Aviv. The UK event takes place at the National Motorcycle Museum and gives attendees a rare opportunity to see two experienced and talented individuals with such different perspectives combining their expertise to aid developers in solving very complex design problems. The presentation by Flemming and Steve will show how traditional work-flow barriers have been removed so designers no longer need to choose between either DSP or FPGAs to implement complex algorithms and signal processing systems. “Our technical workshop will present real-time DSP-FPGA design examples from image and video processing to software defined radio (SDR). These will target TI DSPs and Xilinx FPGAs,” explained Flemming. “Our real-time example will show the development flow from algorithm to implementation using C-based hardware design, integrated with model based design using Simulink. It will guide developers through the complete design flow process highlighting complementary use of DSP and FPGAs,” added Steve. The TI Developers Conference covers six DSP/FPGA application themes in parallel: video, audio, industrial control, analogue hardware, digital hardware and systems, software and tools. Beginners through to experts can spend a day gaining the latest insights and knowledge from the industry’s leading players such as Sundance and Celoxica. To register for the conference or find out more visit www.ti.com/europe/devcon

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USA Sundance DSP Inc. Dr. Nory Nakhaee 4790 Caughlin Parkway 233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, U.S.A. Tel: (775) 827-3103 Fax: (775) 827-3664

MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

email: Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemmig.C@sundance.com

More information: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: CIPR0242@sundance.com Web: http://www.sundance.com High res image can be downloaded from: www.clickintopr.com/editors/articleDetail.asp?pjID=242 Editor Notes Flemming Christensen founded Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd in 1989 and is the creator of the 'Lego™-style’ modular concept that is behind the success of Sundance's COTS products. Hardly surprising when you consider Flemming was born and educated in Denmark from where Lego™ originates. Steve Chappell is experienced in the application of electronic system level design techniques for FPGA, SoC and DSP systems. He is responsible for consulting and also manages projects in both embedded and high performance reconfigurable computing. His expertise is in the design of signal and image processing systems using FPGAs with both hands-on design and management experience. Before joining Celoxica, Steve was a Research Fellow in Physics at the Universities of Oxford and York, where he developed data acquisition, associated control and analysis systems. He holds a Doctorate in Physics. Acronyms DSP – digital signal processing FPGA – field programmable gate Array SDR – software defined radio COTS – commercial off the shelf SoC – system on a chip TI – Texas Instruments

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Sundance Launches Development Platform for Software Defined Radio Powered by TI DSPs

14/11/2005

New Development Platform Gives OEMs the Hardware and the tools Needed to Maximize the Potential of Software Defined Radio Garden Grove, Calif. (November 14, 2005) - Today at the Software Defined Radio (SDR) Technical Conference and Product Exposition, Sundance announced the availability of its new SDR development platform to facilitate the design and development of two-way communication radios. Based on Texas Instruments Incorporated's (TI) (NYSE: TXN) TMS320C6416T digital signal processor (DSP), Sundance’s SMT8096 platform offers developers the flexibility to produce a broad range of radio and waveform applications including wireless base stations, military and public safety radios and high-speed data acquisition systems.

Capitalising on TI’s DSP performance, low power and compatibility

with industry standard hardware and software, Sundance’s SMT8096 serves as a rapid-prototyping solution package that empowers software developers to produce a broader range of wireless communication applications at reduced time to market and development costs. For more information, see http://www.ti.com/sundancesdr. “The demand for software defined radio continues to rapidly grow as operators become aware of its great advantages over traditional hardware radios,” said Ram Sathappan, DSP Solutions Marketing Manager for TI. “Sundance’s new development platform will enable more rapid development of software defined radio systems, enabling the manufacture of radio products that are easily upgradeable and reconfigurable to adjust to varying protocols.” Sundance greatly improves the possibilities of software defined radio by leveraging the programmable nature of the DSP and its ability to handle multiple software standards on a single hardware platform, providing greater flexibility, speed and accuracy. “By leveraging TI’s high-performance DSP and analogue chips, we were able to produce a flexible, powerful and fast hardware architecture that complements several software environments, making a development platform that is attractive to developers with or without traditional coding experience,” said Dr. Nory Nakhaee C.E.O. of Sundance DSP. Sundance’s development platform uses TI’s TMS320C6416T fixed-point DSP to enable high-performance data pre-processing. Beyond the sheer performance of its 1GHz clock speed and 64-bit external bus, TI's C6416T is tailored for

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

email: mailto:Nory.N@sundance.com

email: Fabio.A@sundance.com

email: Flemmig.C@sundance.com

wireless infrastructure applications, making it an ideal component in Sundance’s SMT8096 platform. The SMT350 module in the platform uses two TI ADS5500 14-bit, 25MSPS analogue-to-digital converters, designed for applications demanding low power consumption, the highest speed and highest dynamic performance in a very small space.

The TI analogue-to-digital

converters are then complemented by a Xilinx FPGA and a TI DAC5686 dual 16bit, 500MSPS digital-to-analogue converter, which provides three modes of operation: dual-channel, single-sideband and quadrature modulation. At the software level, developers can custom code their systems to reconfigure the flexible hardware. The system’s SMT310Q PCI carrier was specifically developed to provide access to a TI Module over the PCI bus running at 33 MHz with a 32-bit data bus. Because of the onboard XDS510 compatible JTAG controller, developers can use TI's Code Composer Studio™ integrated development environment and 3L Diamond software development environments to easily complete code generation, debugging and uploading. For more demanding SDR applications, the SMT145 carrier with 64 bits data and 66 MHz PCI interface could be used, while a carrier like the SMT148 can be chosen in support of an embedded system. With the modular approach adopted by Sundance, multi-DSP power could be easily harnessed to provide greater number crunching capability when needed, and Sundance provides software to demonstrate these potential capabilities. Traditional system software development “coding” can be circumvented through the use of MathWorks Simulink, which is fully compatible with the SMT8096. The kit supports Windows® , QNX and Linux environments. “This sophisticated SDR development platform, based on MathWorks MATLAB and Simulink for Model-Based Design and a powerful TI-based DSP chip by Sundance, is an exciting development that MathWorks encourages in the market place," said Amnon Gai, partner marketing manager at the MathWorks. Pricing and Availability The SMT8096 is available now at the single unit price of $8395 (US dollars). Delivery time is between two and four weeks from the purchase order. For purchasing please write to sales@sundance.com or phone (775) 827-3103. ### About Sundance Sundance designs, develops, manufactures and markets high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEMs with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O,

communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are vital. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and stand-alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. The company was founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a member of the TI Third Party Network, Xilinx Xperts and MathWorks' Connection programs. For more information visit: http://www.sundance.com/. About Texas Instruments, Inc Texas Instruments Incorporated provides innovative DSP and analog technologies to meet our customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; real-world signal processing requirements. In addition to Semiconductors, the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s businesses include Sensors & Controls, and Educational & Productivity Solutions. TI is headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and has manufacturing, design or sales operations in more than 25 countries. Texas Instruments is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol TXN. More information is located on the World Wide Web at www.ti.com.

Trademarks Code Composer Studio is a trademark of Texas Instruments. All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

More information in UK: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 793293 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: jw8096@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com More information in USA: Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc. 4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664 E-mail: nn8096@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

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VAST DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING POWER PROMISED BY NEW COMPACT CIRCUIT BOARD FOR DSP DEVELOPERS

25/10/2005

London – England A new compact DSP TIM, the SMT368, from Sundance Multiprocessor Technology, pushes the boundaries for performance. The board features the new Xilinx Virtex-4 SX35 FPGA with 192 XtremeDSP slices, each capable of operating at 500 MHz throughput. The SMT368 promises DSP professionals, system integrators, ASIC designers, digital design and prototyping engineers the ideal platform for their work and to help speed their products to market. A copious 35,000 logic cells are available for customer designs, allowing them to create complex functions such as hundreds of intermediate frequency (IF) to baseband down conversions in radio applications. A 128X chip rate greatly enhances the design process of digital systems using spread spectrum techniques. The SMT368 is also highly capable for high definition H.264 and MPEG-4 encode/decode algorithms. Measuring only 105mm by 65mm and weighing in at a measly 58g the board is easy to integrate in any application. In a modular TIM system, the SMT368 integrates with a large range of other DSP/FPGA modules and it is easy to connect to and interface with a host computer. In addition, the SLB (Sundance LVDS Bus) interface provides connection for Sundance mezzanine boards such as ADC and DAC modules for data acquisition or software radio systems. Commenting for Sundance, Flemming Christensen, Sundance managing director said, “Time to market is a key concern for all developers. The SMT368 is made for high productivity and to shorten development times.” Sundance Multiprocessor Technology is based in the UK, and has offices in the USA and Italy. They specialise in providing design, manufacture and sales of DSP products and systems using the latest technology. Full specifications and diagrams of the SMT368 are available on the company’s website at www.sundance.com/w.asp?p=SMT368 and further advice on selecting the right equipment for DSP projects is available on (0)1494 793167 in the UK or (775) 827 3103 in the USA.

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More information in UK: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS Tel. +44 (0)1494 793293 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168 E-mail: jw0914@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com More information in USA: Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc. 4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664 E-mail: nn0914@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

PRESS RELEASE

Sundance Unveils One Giga Sample per Second Digital Down Converter

May 20, 2005 Contact: Flemming Christensen Flemming.C@Sundance.com

RENO, NEVADA (May 20, 2005) – Sundance Digital Processing Inc, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) systems, reconfigurable computing platforms, and FPGA-based intellectual property (IP) cores and a member of Xilinx® XPERTS Program, today announced the availability of the FC104, a new and powerful Digital Down Converter (DDC) IP core. Specifically developed for Xilinx' FPGAs, this fully configurable core combines flexibility and speed to address the demanding performance requirements of complex DSP applications such as SDR-Software Defined Radio, Wireless IP development, hardware testing, radar and electronic warfare applications. Twice as fast as any DDC core on the market today, the FC104 can be fully implemented on Sundance's SMT398, SMT338, and SMT368 FPGAbased reconfigurable computing platforms. This combination makes for a high performance, flexible and fully integrated programmable off-the-shelf digital receiver. With its ultra-high performance generated by its quad DDC architecture, the FC104 accepts 16-bit complex data and can process data flows up to 1 Giga samples per second (GSPS) continuously. "The year 2005 is going be an important year for the wireless industry and 3G wireless products. Communications OEMs are always seeking costeffective, high-performance IP core and reconfigurable computing platforms to implement and test their new designs," said Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance." To support its OEM customers in meeting this challenge, Sundance has leveraged its IP development, signal processing, and complex hardware development expertise to offer one stop shop solutions such as the FC104 and the SMT platforms." Handcrafted and optimized by VHDL experts, the FC104 is particularly well suited for Xilinx' FPGA family of products such as Virtex™II™, Virtex-4 and Spartan™-3. All four stages of this DDC are fully programmable and four 16-bit complex samples can be loaded in parallel at a rate of 250MHz. The DDC core is comprised of four NCO and mixers in parallel and the output can be decimated by factors power of two. The input gain is user programmable, while the Numerically Controlled Oscillator (NCO) is comprised of four sets of sine and cosine. At the mixer stage the core implements four mixers in parallel and its output can be decimated over by factors. The output stage is also user programmable. "Increasing wireless infrastructure requirements are driving the proliferation of 3G wireless technologies," said Robert Bielby, Xilinx Senior Director of Vertical Marketing and Partnerships. "We are pleased that our XPERTS partner Sundance is enabling accelerated industry deployments

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NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 1494 793298 Fax: +44 1494 793168

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by offering a fully-verified Digital Down Converter IP core that leverages the integrated DSP blocks of our Virtex-4 device to deliver a highperformance, low-power solution." The FC104 leverages Xilinx' Virtex-4 high speed dedicated arithmetic resources to reduce the number of inputs, NCO, and mixer block. The design reduced number of resources needed by almost half while the performance of the core is sustained at 1 GSPS. The FC104 can also be customized for higher performances for customer specific design solutions. Pricing for the FC104 can start at $8,000 (US$). However, costs will depend on implementation specifics, such as the platform selected and the DDC parameters.

About Sundance Sundance is a UK-based, ISO 9000 Compliant, independent company headquartered in Chesham, U.K., with offices in the United States and Italy. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a Xilinx Xperts and MathWorksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Connection program member.

About the Xilinx XPERTS Program Xilinx established the XPERTS Program (www.xilinx.com/xperts) to provide its customers with access to a worldwide network of certified design consultants. XPERTS members are certified and have extensive expertise and experience with Xilinx technology in various vertical applications, such as DSP, communications and networking, video and image processing, system I/O interfaces, and home networking. XPERTS members are an integral part of the Xilinx strategy to provide its customers with cost-efficient design solutions, while speeding time-to-market.

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PRESS RELEASE

Sundance Unveils Floating-Point Library for TI Fixed-Point TMS320™ DSP Family

Mar 28, 2005 Contact: Flemming Christensen Flemming.C@Sundance.com

RENO, NEVADA (March 28, 2005) – Sundance Digital Processing Inc,, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced digital signal processing (DSP) and reconfigurable computing platforms, today announced the availability of the GDD600, a new and powerful library of floating-point DSP vectors and functions. Offering a broad range of callable functions, the GDD600 library significantly reduces the development time of many DSP applications targeting Texas Instruments' (TI) TMS320 DSP-based platforms. In addition to the hand-coded and optimized functions, the GDD600 includes a data conversion unit that facilitates the conversion of fixed-point and integer formats into floating-point units, as well as the conversion of floating-point units into integer formats. “Encompassing over one hundred different functions and transforms, the GDD600 is remarkably beneficial for DSP applications written in either Ccode or variants of C-code, enabling programmers to encode DSP and image-processing algorithms in an efficient and timely manner,” said Thomas Brooks, C6000 product marketing manager, TI. With the ability to interchange between a fixed-point and a floating-point DSP processor, the GDD600 is a very helpful tool in the development of DSP real-time applications based on a variety of TI floating and fixed-point processors such as the TMS320C64x™ and TMS320C67x™ DSP generations. "DSP applications are often coded modularly, which means the applications are divided into functions that are then called from the application. Most major DSP vendors have spent considerable time developing compilers that streamline these application developments," said Flemming Christensen, general manager, Sundance. "By providing application designers with the powerful GDD600 library of pre-optimized DSP functions, Sundance makes it possible for DSP programmers to maximize the benefits offered by compilers while reducing and simplifying application developments." The GDD600 library comprises over 100 functions and macros that perform common DSP operations like Fast Fourier Transform, Fast Hartley Transform, Discrete Cosine Transform, FIR/IIR filters, coordinate transformations, vector operations, complex number arithmetic operations, pseudo-random numbers generation and data conditioning (spectral windows) operations. These operations are executed on the IEEE-754 floating-point format numbers, which are then implemented on a larger dynamic range that uniformly distributes relative errors, making it unnecessary for developers to scale accumulators, a common practice for fixed-point arithmetic.

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 1494 793298 Fax: +44 1494 793168

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The hand-coded and optimized library includes various features such as interruptibility, which is essential for programming asynchronous systems. The GDD600 also has the ability for re-entrance, thus enabling the same code to be shared between tasks and threads. This makes the code useable in multitasking systems. Fast and accurate floating-point math simulation routines also allow the user to benefit from a faster processing floating-point array and scalar data. Pricing for the GDD600 starts at $5,500. For more information about the GDD600 library, visit www.sundance.com

About Sundance Sundance is a UK-based, ISO 9000 Compliant, independent company headquartered Chesham, U.K., with offices in the United States and Italy. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as data acquisition, I/O, communication and interconnectivity products that are essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are essential. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a Xilinx Xperts and MathWorksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Connection program member. About the Texas Instruments Third Party Program Sundance is a member of the TI TMS320â&#x201E;˘ third party network, the most extensive collection of DSP development support in the world. With more than 650 independent companies and consultants, TI's customers have easy access to a broad range of application software, development hardware/software and consulting services. For more information on the TI third party network, please visit: http://www.ti.com/3p.

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PRESS RELEASE

Sundance goes Rocket Serial Links with Xilinx I/Os

Feb 07, 2005 Contact: Flemming Christensen Flemming.C@Sundance.com

RENO, NEVADA – February 07, 2005 - Sundance, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of advanced signal processing and reconfigurable computing systems, today announced the availability of a new series of embedded OEM products, the SMT351, SMT-338-VP, and the SMT398VP. Based on Xilinx® Virtex-II Pro™ field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), these small form–factor embedded reconfigurable computing modules address the growing need for standards-based reconfigurable computing and signal processing systems. Compatible with Sundance wide range of embedded modular systems, this new series of products leverages the power of Xilinx® Virtex-II Pro™ as an embedded processor as well as Xilinx's Rocket IO™ multi-gigabit serial transceivers as high-speed connections and inter-module communications. Targeting customers who are required to design custom embedded systems and applications, this group of products provides OEMs with the basic elements to build custom systems and include memory, communication controller, and a reconfigurable computing modules. "Many of our customers’ systems include specialized IP core that they have to design themselves. Rather than wasting their precious design resources on hardware development, this product line provides them with an integrated flexible system and hardware architecture which they can customize to meet their specifications," said Flemming Christensen, Managing Director of Sundance." The Xilinx Rocket IO transceivers offers the ultimate in programmable, fast intersystem communications, and the embedded IBM PowerPC™ in Virtex-II Pro provides them with the general purpose processor which allows developers to focus strictly on applications and FPGA IP core issues." All of the three modules use Rocket IO™ as the main serial communication link in addition to other resources such as Sundance High speed Bus (SHB) or LVDS for parallel connections. The data flows in and out of the modules are controlled by a Xilinx® Virtex-II Pro™ and through user defined pins. The memory module, SMT351, supports a throughput of up 400MB/second and has 1Gbyte of DDR-SDRAM The SMT398, provide an integrated DSP communication platform with on-module high-speed QDRSRAM between the Virtex-II Pro™, and the SMT338 is the main I/O module with it’s own microcontroller, ADC/DAC and 120 pins of LVDS input/output through the Sundance LVDS Bus

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 1494 793298 Fax: +44 1494 793168

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"We are impressed by the way Sundance has used our latest RocketIO technologies to develop an effective and modular FPGA standard-based product line," said Per Holmberg, Director of Virtex Marketing at Xilinx. "The interoperability of Sundance's module provided by the Xilinx RocketIO and high bandwidth programmable interfaces has allowed Sundance's to design compatible Virtex-based reconfigurable systems that leverage high-speed serial links and provide a solution to an increasing number of signal and image processing applications."

These highly integrated, compact, and reconfigurable modules can be cascaded with other compatible modules through Sundance high-speed bus or through Rocket IOâ&#x201E;˘ links, and create a larger, parallel and scalable embedded system. "This Sundance new release further enhances the ability of their product line to address a variety of different and very demanding signal and image processing problems," said Pierre Popovic, President of Cadre Codesign Inc. " the interchangeability and flexibility that Sundance's reconfigurable computing system provides is key to our development environment." The SMT351, SMT-338-VP, and the SMT398-VP are available for delivery and their pricing in US $ starts at $2,995, $1,985, and $6,295, respectively. Evaluation units and volume pricing are also available

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PRESS RELEASE Jan 07, 2005

Sundance Joins Xilinx XPERTS Program RENO, NEVADA – January 07, 2005 - Sundance, a worldwide supplier and manufacturer of signal processing and reconfigurable computing systems for an extensive range of embedded designs and applications, today announced it has joined the Xilinx® XPERTS Program. For the past fifteen years Sundance has been developing advanced systems for high performance signal processing applications that have provided and continues to provide the industry with some of the most adaptive reconfigurable system solutions on the market. These fully compatible solutions include a large product line of Xilinx FPGA-based configurable coprocessor modules, data acquisition, and several other signal and parallel processing architectures.

Capitalizing on its FPGA expertise, Sundance is uniquely positioned to provide OEMs comprehensive, reconfigurable core architectures and solutions tailored to meet their application needs. With its multi-disciplinary engineering resources, its diverse products, its wealth of intellectual properties, and now a member of Xilinx XPERTS Program, Sundance is the ideal development partner for OEMs that need to implement complex and reconfigurable embedded system designs.

"Joining Xilinx XPERTS Program is a natural fit for us," said Flemming Christensen, general manger of Sundance. "Allaying ourselves with the major FPGA supplier would provide us with the opportunity to significantly enhance our time to market, competitive advantage, and access a wider customer audience allowing them to benefit from our experienced and dedicated development and integration engineering team.”

Sundance’s Xilinx FPGA-based platforms provide a complete solution from design to manufacture and end use. Central to its embedded system and PowerPC core implementations are the Xilinx Virtex-II Pro™ and the Xilinx Virtex-4™ FPGA which are the processing hubs for a wide range of EDITORIAL ENQUIRIES

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

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Sundance’s system carrier boards, daughter boards as well as data acquisition system. Specifically designed to address the complex application requirements and intensive computational bottlenecks frequently found in high-end signal processing applications, these systems are compliant to established standards such as PCI, CPCI, and VME. With the availability of higher capacity Virtex-4 FPGAs in the Xilinx product line, the inherent architecture flexibility in Sundance’s reconfigurable platforms make it easier for OEMs and designers to meet complex algorithmic FPGA designs delivery schedules.

“We are delighted to have Sundance as our newest XPERTS Program member,” said Jasbinder Bhoot, senior manager of Strategic Partnerships at Xilinx. “"Sundance clearly demonstrates it is qualified to respond to our customer design needs and increase the large portfolio of skills, products and services that are centered around the Virtex architecture, and currently available to developers worldwide.”

About the Xilinx XPERTS Program

Xilinx established the XPERTS Program (www.xilinx.com/xperts) to provide its customers with access to a worldwide network of certified design consultants. XPERTS members are certified and have extensive expertise and experience with Xilinx technology in various vertical applications, such as DSP, communications and networking, video and image processing, system I/O interfaces, and home networking. XPERTS members are an integral part of the Xilinx strategy to provide its customers with cost-efficient design solutions, while speeding time-to-market. About Sundance Sundance is a UK-based, ISO 9000 Compliant, independent company headquartered Chesham, U.K., and with offices in the United States and Italy. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets high performance signal processing and reconfigurable systems for original equipment manufacturers in the wireless and signal processing markets. Leveraging its multiprocessor expertise and experience, Sundance provides OEM with modular DSP and FPGA-based systems as well as, Data Acquisition, I/O, Communication, and interconnectivity products that are so essential to multiprocessor systems where scalability and performance are important. With over fifty different modules and carriers for PCI, cPCI VME and Stand Alone platforms, Sundance is a solution provider to semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and factory automation industries. Sundance, founded in 1989 by the current directors, is a Xilinx Xperts and MathWorks’ Connection program member.

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What's New

New Optimised PCs Promise Quick Start for DSP Projects

3rd March 2005 Contact: Justin Wheatley, Systems Manager, Tel. +44 (0)1494 793293 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168

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Original equipment manufacturers and embedded system designers can give their digital signal processing projects a jump-start thanks to the innovative Sundance SMTPC range of optimised PCs. Sundance Multiprocessor Technology is an internationally renowned supplier of high-performance processor and I/O modules for use in single and multiprocessor DSP equipment. Their equipment is found in demanding applications including imaging, sonar, simulation and industrial control. A range of PCs customised to bring the best out of this world-class technology was seen as essential. “Powerful DSP systems demand robust power supplies, adequate cooling, and space for all the hardware. Off-the-shelf PCs are rarely up to the job. Ordering our cutting-edge DSP hardware with a PC built for the job avoids any risks and saves projects leaders valuable time by providing configured, tested and ready to run systems,” explained Flemming Christensen, Sundance managing director. The SMTPC range of optimised PCs is available in desktop, tower and standard portable platforms depending on need and user preference. Build quality is exceptional and there is even a ruggedised portable version for heavy-duty use in harsh environments. All share the same integration with Sundance’s hardware and are delivered configured to customer order requirements. Though customised for best performance of DSP applications, the PCs are based on well-specified components throughout. They include Intel processors, DDR2400 RAM, S-ATA hard disks, DVD read/writers and come complete with Microsoft Windows XP Professional. Added features include more robust power supplies to ensure stable operation with power hungry processing systems. Multi-fan flow through cooling prevents overheating while a front panel two-channel LCD temperature display with two internal probes gives a visual assurance that all is running well. To help users start their DSP projects immediately, all Sundance hardware and software is preinstalled to guarantee a hundred percent compatibility. This allows the company to provide whole system support.

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MIDDLE, SOUTH, EAST EUROPE Sundance Italia S.R.L. Dr. Fabio Ancona Corso XXV Aprile 55/3 16040 S. Salvatore di Cogorno (GE), Italy Tel: +39 0185 385193 Fax: +39 0185 385370

NORTH EUROPE & REST OF THE WORLD Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. Mr. Flemming Christensen Chiltern House, Waterside, Chesham Bucks, HP5 1PS, England Tel: +44 1494 793298 Fax: +44 1494 793168

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