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Tabula, a privately held fabless semiconductor company that developed the Spacetime 3-D architecture, has announced the launch of the ABAX family of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLD). Based on Spacetime architecture that delivers 3-D by using time as a third dimension, ABAX enables high-performance, compute-intensive applications on a programmable platform but at volume price points.
According to the company by providing programmability in applications historically served only by ASICs or ASSPs, ABAX represents a new category of programmable logic device. Designed for a wide range of applications, ABAX devices will initially target the telecom, enterprise, and wireless infrastructure markets.
Deployed on TSMC’s 40nm process, ABAX devices integrate a rich mixture of fully configurable, high-performance I/Os, including 920 general-purpose parallel I/Os, and 48 6.5Gbps serial transceivers. To improve time to market and productivity, the ABAX family’s design flow closely resembles those for FPGAs and ASICs, using synthesis, placement, and routing to compile designs from RTL into silicon. In addition, ABAX devices support a broad portfolio of soft IP cores, including DDR2 and DDR3 memory controllers, PCI Express, Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, soft CPUs, sRIO, CPRI, and OBSAI.
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Commenting on the announcement Richard Wawrzyniak, Senior Market Analyst at Semico Research Corp. said, “For decades, the ‘Holy Grail’ for electronic system manufacturers has been a logic platform that combines programmability and flexibility with large capacity and cost effectiveness. We believe that the approach to how Tabula accomplishes this is innovative and is something the entire semiconductor industry should take note of.” He goes on, “Tabula’s benchmark results for ABAX show significant advantages in both density and capability for logic, memory and signal processing when compared with 40 nm FPGAs, enabling ABAX devices to offer programmability both in traditional FPGA applications and beyond.”
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