BittWare Introduces New Multiprocessor Operating Environment

Concord, NH - BittWare, Inc., a supplier of hybrid (DSP and FPGA) board-level solutions based on Altera's FPGAs and Analog Devices' TigerSHARC® technology, announced recently the release of Trident™, their new multiprocessor operating environment. According to the company:

• Supporting distributed multiprocessor application development on Analog Devices TigerSHARC processors, Trident provides system designers a complete operating environment to code, debug, and optimize applications on multiprocessor, multi-board, and multi-system platforms. Its efficient distributed framework, optimized for low-latency and high-throughput, can support up to 65,000 processors.

"The complexities of designing an efficient, multiprocessor-based system are becoming increasingly difficult for system designers to handle, especially when merging two technologies such as DSPs and FPGAs," says Jeff Milrod, BittWare's President and CEO. "Trident was developed to reduce the complexities of multiprocessor systems making them more accessible and easier to implement."

Further:

• Trident consists of a suite of embedded libraries and host tools that seamlessly integrate with Analog Devices Visual DSP++ development tool-chain. Its modular design supports multiprocessor synchronization for threads on different processors, large-scale messaging capabilities with point-to-point and broadcast APIs, and high-speed data transfers. The underlying inter-process communication supporting each Trident module occurs across high-performance LVDS link ports either directly connected or configured via BittWare's FPGA ATLANTiS framework. Optimized for low-latency and high-throughput, Trident's performance will not decrease even as the number of processors increases.
• Trident, coupled with BittWare's FPGA and DSP product families, provides an unparalleled development environment for large-scale Defense/Aerospace, High End Instrumentation, Life Sciences, and Communications applications.

For more information on BittWare and its DSP and FPGA solutions, you can visit www.bittware.com.

SOURCE: BittWare