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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist

February 21st, 2008 by Dave

It does not take a rocket scientist to use a RocketDrive!

I think the recent launch of the three-stage RIM-161 SM-3 missile that destroyed the bus sized spy satellite last evening required rocket scientists. I have trouble throwing a football to my boys and accurately leading them so the ball meets them in their route and I can’t imagine how difficult it must have been to accomplish this satellite busting task.

The team that shot down the satellite had to deal with an object the size of a yellow school bus (those of you with children may now have vivid memories of The Magic School Bus TV series where they often traveled into space in a magic bus), traveling at 17,000 MPH at 153 miles above the earth’s surface. No, it was not the Magic School Bus, it was indeed a satellite. It took some very smart people to execute the mission successfully. Thanks to go out to those rocket scientists that removed the risk of the 1,000 pounds of hazardous hydrazine that could have been raining down on an unsuspecting population.

Of course there is a thankless DeviceNative plug side to this story…

GateRocket’s product is called a RocketDrive and it does NOT require a rocket scientist to operate it. You just need to know a few parameters about your FPGA design and the tools automatically integrate it in-silicon and into your favorite simulator. It provides you with a fast and accurate verification solution with advanced debugging capabilities. The science is in the algorithms that make the product easy to use.

If your not a rocket scientist and need help verifying and debugging your FPGA, contact GateRocket and they will be happy to help you.

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FPGAs - Modern Day Systems On Chips (SoCs)

August 9th, 2007 by Dave

I am getting a little late in my reading with all of the customer activity that resulted from the recent Design Automation Conference in June. I finally had a chance to read the May Embedded System Design magazine and I saw a great article about the use of 32 bit processors in FPGAs. The article references Gartner Dataquest data regarding the FPGA design starts and overlays the percentage that have embedded processors. They believe that by 2010, 40% of all FPGAs will have embedded processors (see the chart below).

More FPGAs have embedded processors
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Design Automation Conference wakes up to FPGAs

June 16th, 2007 by Dave

I am sure that you have heard about Rip Van Winkle, the Dutch villager living in America who, trying to escape his nagging wife by wandering into the forest with his dog and rifle. After drinking elves brew, he falls asleep for 20 years. Years ago, the design automation industry had similarly fallen asleep regarding the move to FPGA devices, see my earlier post about the designers marching to FPGAs. Well, at this years Design Automation Conference, if by only judging by the attention paid to GateRocket, the industry and analysts have awoken to the needs of the FPGA design engineer.
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