BittWare Introduces Brand New Arria 10 Family of FPGA Boards

Author - Laura Biddiscombe

Arria® FPGAs and SoCs from Altera deliver optimal performance, power, and cost efficiency in the midrange.

Built on 20 nm process technology, the Arria 10 FPGAs feature industry-leading programmable logic that integrates a rich feature set of embedded peripherals, embedded high-speed transceivers, hard memory controllers, and protocol IP controllers. In addition, Arria 10 FPGAs and SoCs are the industry’s first FPGA to integrate hardened floating-point (IEEE 754-compliant) DSP blocks that deliver breakthrough floating-point performance of up to 1.5 TFLOPS. Arria 10 SoCs are also the industry’s only 20nm FPGA to integrate a dual-core ARM® Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ hard processor system (HPS).

The brand new A10 board family from BittWare leverages the Arria 10 FPGAs exciting capabilities to build solid platforms in a variety of formats that support a wide range of challenging applications, such as network processing & security, compute & storage, instrumentation, test & measurement, broadcast, medical imaging, wireless infrastructure, and signals intelligence.

The A10 board family features flexible memory configurations, sophisticated clocking and timing options, QSFP28 cages that support 100Gbps (including 100GigE) optical transceivers, FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), and support for the network-enabled Altera® SDK for OpenCL™.

BittWare’s Arria 10 GX-based boards will begin shipping in Q4 2014. Arria 10 GT and SoC versions will be available in Q1 2015. Contact Sarsen Technology for pricing and details.

BittWare to Exhibit at SIFMA 2012

June 19-20, 2012         Hilton New York

The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) Tech Expo draws the top technology exhibitors providing services to the financial services industry. It brings together the shared interests of hundreds of securities firms, banks and asset managers. These companies are engaged in communities across the country to raise capital for businesses, promote job creation and lead economic growth.

BittWare has designed and developed a family of PCIe format Altera Stratix V FPGA hardware optimised for the financial trading market.  Ron Huizen, Darren Taylor and Chad Hamilton from BittWare will be exhibiting at SIFMA next week on booth #1823, showcasing their (growing) Stratix V family of PCIe cards.  

More than 70 senior regulators and industry experts will participate in 29 educational sessions on the foremost issues facing financial technologists, and the event is expected to bring together more than 4,000 industry-leading professionals to discover the latest trends and solutions.

If you would like to visit BittWare at the SIFMA Tech Expo please give us a call on +44 1672 511166 to arrange a time.

Please contact Sarsen Technology for full details of the full range of PCIe format Altera Stratix V FPGA hardware and software developed for this market. E - info@sarsen.net 

http://www.sarsen.net/dept/financial-trading_d0145.htm

Sarsen Technology DSEi Competition Winner

If you visited the Sarsen Technology Ltd stand at the Defence Security and Equipment International (DSEi) exhibition last September, you would have had the opportunity to add your business card to the hat and enter a prize draw to win a brand new iPad 3.

Sarsen had hundreds of visitors to the stand at the exhibition at ExCeL, many with a keen interest in the embedded computing and data acquisition COTS hardware, software & systems supplied by Sarsen to the world’s leading defence & aerospace OEMs. The BittWare embedded COTS hardware featuring the Altera Stratix FPGA is a key technology solution supported by Sarsen Technology. Steve Dodsworth of Altera drew the winning card from the hat.

The lucky recipient of the iPad 3 was Julien Loyer of Esterel Technologies. Julien had to wait until Apple released the iPad 3 until he could receive his prize at the Altera European HQ in High Wycombe.

Steve Dodsworth of Altera is pictured presenting the prize to Julien Loyer of Esterel Technologies. 



Left to right:
Bob Blake - Product & Corporate Marketing Manager, Altera Europe Ltd
iPad 3 Price draw winner: Julien Loyer - Sales Manager Northern Europe, Esterel Technologies
Steve Dodsworth - EMEA North Area Sales Director, Altera Europe Ltd
Nigel Norman - Managing Director, Sarsen Technology Limited

Low-Latency Summit London 2012

Tim Norris, Robbie Burns & Nigel Norman participated in the Low-Latency Summit for High Frequency Financial Trading yesterday. Altera showcased a BittWare S5-PCIe Altera Stratix V FPGA PCIe format board on their booth. Burkhard Jour represented BittWare at the event organised the by the A-Team Group. The event was held at America Square Conference Centre and highlighted the issues around implementing new technologies such as large FPGAs in the HFT market space. There was a good and informed attendance. There was also a nice contrast between high technology such as the Altera Stratix V FPGA with 3.9 billion gates and the 2000 year old Roman wall next to the exhibition space.

Link to the Low-Latency Summit web site:

Low-Latency Summit 2012

Automated Trader: BittWare delivers FPGA Boards for High Frequency Trading

Bittware's high performance Altera FPGA solutions for high frequency financial trading are featured in Automated Trader. BittWare, a provider of fully-validated, deployable Altera-based off-the-shelf FPGA and signal processing boards, has announced the First Customer Shipment (FCS) of the S5-PCIe to a technology leader in the finance and trading industry. The S5-PCIe is the first of a family of PCI Express slot-cards that BittWare is offering to the financial acceleration/HFT (High Frequency Trading) market. Providing CPU offload, high performance transceivers, and optional TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), the S5-PCIe is a PCIe-compliant deployable slot-card based on FPGA - Altera's Stratix® V.

Link to the Automated Trader web site: Automated Trader.

December 2011 News Bytes from Sarsen Technology

The December 2011 edition of the Sarsen Technology News Bytes is now available online. This month we are featuring new embedded technology solutions based on Altera Stratix V FPGAs, rugged convection cooled systems for COM Express & XMC modules and high performance AMD Radeon 6760 GPU Graphics XMC hardware. December 2011 News Bytes The image is a reproduction of an original watercolour by Pat Thuysbaert, showing a Christmas scene in Avebury, Wiltshire. Website: www.patsartbox.co.uk

FPGA Solutions for Automated Financial Trading Market

Busy with lots of new opportunities for the BittWare S5-PCIe Altera Stratix V FPGA board in the automated financial trading market http://bit.ly/vL8e2v

Altera Stratix V FPGA Board for Automated Financial Trading Applications

The BittWare S5-PCIe is the industry's first Altera Stratix® V FPGA-based COTS board and is optimised for high performance computing military, telecommunications test equipment and financial trading applications. The Altera Stratix V FPGA has 3.8 billion transistors and is optimised for demanding computing applications. New project opportunities in the automated financial trading market is keeping us very busy this month.

BittWare International Sales Conference 2011

Nigel, Robbie & Tim travelled to Concord, NH at the end of September for BittWare's 2011 International Distributor Sales & Traing Conference. We learnt about lots of new exciting technology including the Altera Stratix V COTS hardware & the new Anemone FPGA Co-Processor. We also travelled one evening to the Castle in the Clouds in the White Mountains in New Hampshire where the photo above was taken.

News Bytes - June Issue Of Our Newsletter Now Available

The June 2011 issue of the Sarsen Technology News Bytes includes:

• Commercial & Rugged Altera Stratix® IV GX 3U VPX Board


• Game Changing Technology from Matrox/Trenton Partnership


• 4-port, CAN bus interface board from UEI


• Intel® Atom™ Z530P PC/104-Plus SBC

Also included are two white papers:

• Intel® Signage Goes Super-Size with Video Walls: Jim Renehan, Director of Marketing, Trenton Technology discusses the latest video wall technologies


• Laser-based Security System Relies on VersaLogic for Processing Power in Extreme Weather Conditions: Effective night time security is a critical deterrent to crime and terrorist activity around the world. Often the rugged environmental conditions prove to be a challenge for security systems

Industry Record - Transistors on an Integrated Circuit

Altera Breaks Semiconductor Industry Record for Most Transistors on an Integrated Circuit

Industry's Highest-Bandwidth, Highest-Performance FPGA Features a Record-Setting 3.9 Billion Transistors.

San Jose, Calif., April 18, 2011 – Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) today announced it set an industry milestone in semiconductor technology by delivering the most transistors ever packed onto an integrated circuit. Altera's 28-nm V FPGAs are the semiconductor industry's first devices to feature 3.9 billion transistors. This level of functionality delivers unparalleled performance to system designers.

http://bit.ly/i2wLH1

ATLANTiS™ FrameWork Overview "What is BittWare's ATLANTiS FrameWork and how can it help your FPGA development?"

New from BittWare is a series of online videos detailing the features and benefits of the ATLANTiS FPGA Framework software. The first in the series is entitled "What is BittWare's ATLANTiS FrameWork and how can it help your FPGA development process?"

In this video, you will learn more about BittWare's ATLANTiS FrameWork which provides reconfigurable FPGA components and the necessary infrastructure to implement, simulate, synthesize, validate, and deploy a complete FPGA application on BittWare's Altera-based FPGA products. BittWare's own Chad Hamilton, Director of Applications Engineering, presents. BittWare Video Library.

Sarsen Technology Update - May 2010

The May 2010 Sarsen Technology Update newsletter is now on line at Sarsen Technology Update. This month's newsletter features new stories of new product introductions from BittWare, EVOC, Extreme Engineering Solutions and General Standards.

European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow 2009

Sarsen Technology is one of twenty companies participating in the 2009 European Defence & Aerospace Manufacturing Technology Roadshow. The roadshow takes place this year between 21st September - 16th October on a one month tour across the UK and Europe visiting many of the industry's major design, development and research facilities along the way. Included on the itinerary are visits to Selex Galileo in Luton, Goodrich Actuation Systems in Wolverhampton, Rolls-Royce in Derby, Lockheed-Martin in Ampthill, Goodrich Power Systems in Pitstone, Siemens Roke Manor in Romsey, BAE Systems in Farnborough and GE Aviation in Cheltenham.

On board the exhibition vehicle is a group of twenty suppliers demonstrating leading edge technologies for the defence and aerospace markets directly to customers on it's premises, meeting directly with many of the engineers and developers who don't always manage to get to more traditional trade shows.

We are currently in Derby meeting with Rolls-Royce and Sarsen Technology is discussing new Altera Stratix IV GX COTS hardware from BittWare, Oxygen Electronics component sourcing services, high-performance PICMG 1.3 computing solutions from Trenton Technology and rugged, embedded single board computing solutions from VersaLogic. There is a good mix of technology solutions on the roadshow and customers are keen to discuss new project opportunities. Tomorrow is Thursday so it must be Lockheed-Martin (INSYS) in Ampthill!