These announcements support the company’s continuing commitment to enabling industry-leading data acceleration in heterogeneous compute environments, and the Speedster 7t product family provides FPGA-based performance for data acceleration applications.
According to Steve Mensor, VP of Marketing and Business Development at Achronix, "The release of the AC7t1500 to production along with the addition of the AC7t800 in our ACE design tools gives customers multiple options from this high-performance family that offers FPGA programmability with ASIC-level performance. These advancements give customers confidence that they can design on a robust, validated FPGA product family that meets their high-performance and high-bandwidth needs."
Speedster7t high-end FPGAs are built on TSMC's 7nm process technology and deliver high performance for networking, storage and compute acceleration applications.
The device’s architecture includes a innovative 2D network on chip (2D NoC) that offers 20 Tbps of total bandwidth. The 2D NoC offers high-speed connectivity between the FPGA fabric and the high-speed interfaces including 400G Ethernet, PCIe Gen5, GDDR6 and DDR4/5.
In addition, the Speedster7t FPGAs have machine learning processors (MLPs) distributed across the FPGA fabric. Each MLP is a highly configurable, compute-intensive block, with up to 32 multipliers, that support integer formats from 4 to 24 bits and various floating-point modes including direct support for Tensorflow's bfloat16 format and block floating-point (BFP) format.
The Achronix Tool Suite is used to design with Achronix FPGAs and eFPGA IP solutions and comes with ACE design tools from Achronix and Synplify-Pro from Synopsys for the synthesis of FPGA designs.
Achronix simulation libraries are supported by ModelSim from Mentor Graphics, VCS from Synopsys, and Riviera-PRO from Aldec. Standard RTL (VHDL and Verilog) input together with industry-standard simulation ensures that the Achronix design flow is straightforward for existing FPGA designers. Also included is Snapshot Debugger, a real-time design debugging tool for Achronix devices.
