SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 30, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Altera
Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) is demonstrating how its field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) can enable system acceleration in
trading and regulatory environments at the FIA Futures &
Options Expo taking place November 3-5,
2015, at the Chicago Hilton (Green Hall, Booth #107). This
industry event focuses on the technology requirements and critical
issues associated with the financial derivatives market. Altera,
along with partner REFLEX CES, is showcasing ultra-low latency
networking and acceleration of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) using an
Arria® 10 FPGA, which enables tremendous performance
potential.
Demonstrations at the Altera booth include the following:
- An ultra-low latency networking demonstration from REFLEX CES,
a provider of networking accelerator cards, featuring an Arria 10
FPGA driving two Quad Small Form-factor Pluggable (QSFP)
hot-pluggable transceiver connections demonstrating:
- Real-time 10GbE communication with a COTS NIC
(commercial-off-the-shelf network interface card)
- Real-time measurement of 10GbE ultra low latency in a
system
- Demonstration of an OpenCL™ flow on an Arria 10 FPGA using the
Altera SDK for OpenCL™ design tool running a Mandelbrot algorithm,
video downscaling, and other applications.
Altera FPGAs Serve as Coprocessors
Altera FPGAs
support pipeline structures of variable depth and provide parallel
compute resources numbering in the thousands, allowing even highly
complex functions to be implemented with single-clock execution.
The programmability of FPGAs ensures they can be tuned to meet the
specific needs of an application without the cost or delay of
designing a custom coprocessor. FPGAs are reprogrammable and
therefore can provide highly customized coprocessing in a single
chip for a wide range of applications.
Altera also offers the industry's first implementation of
IEEE 754 single-precision hardened floating point operators
in the DSP (digital signal processing) blocks in its Arria 10
FPGAs, enabling a processing rate of up to 1.5 TFLOPS (Tera
floating point operations per second) offering greater energy
efficiency and productivity for financial, big data, search and
other applications. With this innovation, Altera FPGAs and SoCs
offer a performance and power efficiency advantage over
microprocessors and GPUs (graphics processing units) in an expanded
range of applications.
REFLEX CES provides ultra-low latency FPGA network accelerator
cards delivered with a comprehensive firmware/software design
environment and designed to enable easy implementation of ultra-low
latency network data processing and high-performance computing
inside the FPGA. REFLEX CES also provides OpenCL board support
packages (BSPs) optimized for Arria10 FPGAs.
About Altera Computer and Storage Solutions
Altera
FPGAs can be used to accelerate the performance of large-scale data
systems. Altera FPGAs enable higher speed data processing by
providing customized high-bandwidth, low-latency connections to
network and storage systems. In addition, Altera FPGAs provide
compression, data filtering, and algorithmic
acceleration.
With the Altera SDK for OpenCL, system designers can rapidly
develop acceleration solutions for computer and storage systems.
The Altera SDK for OpenCL enables even software developers to
easily design with FPGAs by allowing them to utilize a high-level
programming language for developing acceleration functions.
About Altera
Altera® programmable solutions enable designers of electronic
systems to rapidly and cost effectively innovate, differentiate and
win in their markets. Altera offers FPGA, SoC, CPLD, and
complementary technologies, such as power solutions to
provide high-value solutions to customers worldwide. Visit Altera
at www.altera.com.
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Editor Contact:
Karin
Taylor
Altera Corporation
(408) 544-8207
newsroom@altera.com
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