New Product Highlights
Hitek Systems Brings a Strong High-End Portfolio of Intel® Agilex® and Stratix®10 FPGA-based Boards, SOMs, IP, and Solutions To Macnica Customers
Hitek Systems is a welcome new supplier to the Macnica line card. As an Intel® Titanium partner, Hitek has been producing early FPGA boards, kits, and IP for customers engaged in high-end product development since 2007.
Strengths
  • Deep broad design expertise
  • Time to market – efficient customization
  • Flexible business models
Product Focus
  • High end FPGA’s: Agilex, Stratix 10, SOC’s
  • Hardware, Networking & FEC IP Cores
  • Robust full packages with Drivers, API’s
Applications
  • Networking & Communications
  • Compute & Storage
  • Satcom & Wireless
  • Test & Measurement
Introducing the i-Chips IP00C251
Open 3 x 3 Cross Point Switch LSI for 4k60Hz

The IP00C251 is a versatile 4K 3-channel Cross Point Switch LSI designed for efficient high-speed image signal routing. It integrates V-by-One®HS/LVDS Tx and Rx interfaces in a single chip, making it ideal for connecting high-speed image signals among multiple chips, including FPGAs. It supports conversion between V-by-One®HS and LVDS, split/select image signals, and overlay/chromakey processing on synchronized 3-channel input images, synthesizing them into one channel. The device handles 4K60Hz input/output on three ports, employs a 3x3 Cross Point Switch for seamless signal routing, and offers genlock synchronization. Its resolution conversion, image correction, and CPU interface enhance flexibility. Operating on 3.3V/2.5V/1.1V, the compact BGA package ensures integration ease. The IP00C251 finds applications in advanced signal routing, FPGA-based systems, and image synthesis for video production and broadcasting.
20GB/s and 40GB/s Intel® Agilex™ 7 PCIe Gen5 NVMe RAID0 IP
Intel’s Agilex™ 7 I-series Field Programmable Gate Array’s (FPGA) R-tile supports bifurcation to enable various high-performance configurations of PCIe Gen5 Endpoints and Root Ports (1x16, 2x8, 4x4). With four 4-lane (4x4) bifurcated PCIe channels, up to four high-end PCIe Gen5 Nonvolatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSDs can accessed by a single R-tile.
Design Gateway’s PCIe Gen5 NVMe RAID0 Controller IP integrates with the R-tile’s four bifurcated Root Port hard IP channels to connect two or four PCIe Gen5 SSDs. For the 2-channel RAID0 controller IP and two PCIe Gen5 SSDs (write performance > 10GB/s), the measured aggregate peak write performance is over 20GB/s.  With four PCIe Gen5 SSDs (10GB/s+), the total peak write performance will be over 40GB/s for the 4-channel RAID0 controller IP to be released later this year. 
 
The Design Gateway NVMe RAID0 IP does not require a processor to manage the data transfers and only needs 256K bytes (up to 1M bytes) of on-FPGA memory per channel. Using Design Gateway’s NVMe RAID0 controller IP core is low risk since it leverages the R-tile’s proven hard PCIe Gen5 IP. 

Key Features:
  • Direct access to one to four PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs from a single R-tile with no CPU needed
  • No external DDR memory is required; up to 1MB of on-FPGA memory for each NVMe SSD channel
  • Avalon-ST interface to easily connect with the R-tile and other FPGA IP blocks
  • Low FPGA resource utilization, less than 11K ALMs per channel
  • 17GB/s data reads and 20GB/s data writes with the dual-channel RAID0 IP
  • 40GB/s+ data writes with the quad-channel RAID0 IP
  • Proven compatibility with Intel® Agilex™ 7 I-series FPGAs
Macnica’s mPression Team Develops Versatile and Powerful Dev Kit for Intel® Agilex® 5E FPGA Developers

This kit, configured as an Agilex 5E-based SOM mounted on a baseboard, offers abundant high-end connectivity for industrial, robotics, video/vision, acceleration, and networking or edge applications.

The production-grade SOM includes the largest capacity Agilex® 5E part with 656K LE’s, multiple powerful dual-core ARM® Cortex® processors, DDR4, PCIe Gen4, 24 transceivers, and a host of high-speed interfaces along with GPIO.

Macnica plans to make the kit available in late Q1/early Q2 – 2024.
Intel's highly anticipated Agilex 5 FPGA's
Contact Macnica for more information on the Macnica kit and Intel®’s Agilex® 5 FPGA’s
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