Seattle, WA – September 27, 2011 – Pico Computing today announces the release of a new M-Series Module, the M-504. An adaptation of the M-503, this new module addresses the ever-increasing demands for memory and I/O bandwidth in embedded systems. With the inclusion of 128MB NOR FLASH, the Virtex-6 FPGA can now be configured independently of a host system. This enables the M-504 to be a stand-alone module for embedded applications such as medical imaging, signal processing, machine vision, and robotics.
The M-504 features a Xilinx Virtex-6 LX240T FPGA with two independent banks of DDR3 SODIMM providing 17GB/s of local memory bandwidth to the FPGA. In addition to the DDR3, there are 3 independent banks of QDRII SRAM capable of 10.8GB/s of sustained random access memory bandwidth. There is a single x8 Gen2 PCIe link, sixty-three (63) LVDS, and eight (8) GTX transceivers available via the Samtec QTH series connectors. The M-504 will also be available with Virtex-6 LX365T, LX550T, SX315T or SX475T FPGAs.
Like the M-503 before it, the M-504 can be used in conjunction with the EX-500 PCIe backplane as an HPC system. Thus Pico is able to “cluster” three M-504s per PCIe slot, or up to 24 in their SC5 SuperCluster 4U Chassis. As an embedded module the M-504 can be ruggedized for harsh environments and industrial temperature ranges.
Pico Computing will demonstrate its M-504 module at the International Conference for High Performance Computing 2010 (SC11) November 12 – 18, 2010 in Seattle, Washington.
Pico Computing M-504 module, top and bottom (left to right). The M-504 has 27MB of QDRII SRAM and receives two DDR3 SODIMMs for up to 8GB of RAM. These modules can be used in a stand-alone embedded application, or can be mounted on an EX-500 system board and clustered to create a high-performance computing system.
About Pico Computing
Pico Computing, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, specializes in highly integrated hardware accelerators based on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) technologies. Application for Pico Computing technologies include cryptography, networking, signal processing, bioinformatics, and scientific computing. Pico Computing products are used in embedded systems as well as in military, national security and high performance computing applications. For more information about Pico Computing products and services, visit www.picocomputing.com.
