Development kit accelerates 3PLD creation

Tabula's Stylus cloud computing environment

The ABAX 3PLD development kit claims to be the first platform available to feature ABAX A1EC04 3PLD and provide 390k LUTs, 5.5MBytes of RAM blocks, and 48 channels of 6.5Gbit/s SerDes. The kit is equipped with x36 72 MB of QDRII RAM and x72 1GB DDR3 RAM via an LP-DIMM socket. This product aims to address designs for next generation communications infrastructure, industrial, medical, test, and military/aerospace applications.

The development kit also comes with access to Tabula's Stylus software cloud computing environment. This cloud computing environment claims to be the first integrated, synthesis and place-and-route package supporting 3PLDs devices. Stylus enables designers to access Tabula's Spacetime architecture where they can manage underlying reconfigurations transparently, automatically mapping standard RTL into Spacetime. The Stylus environment also combines synthesis technology with 3D, timing-driven, place-and-route within a flow and methodology that are familiar to FPGA and ASIC designers.

The ABAX 3PLD development kit is available in the market and is priced at $7,500.