fpgas:: is acromag the best?
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FPGAs:: Is Acromag the Best?. By: Rowland S. Demko Date: Sept’2011. What Does Best Mean?. Experience Scalability & Flexibility Re-Useable Knowledge Base Software Support Availability Price. Experience. Think: ACROMAG…. Established 1957… Great Reputation… Made in-house… - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
FPGAs:: Is Acromag the Best?
By: Rowland S. Demko
Date: Sept’2011
What Does Best Mean?
• Experience• Scalability & Flexibility• Re-Useable Knowledge Base• Software Support• Availability• Price
Experience
FPGA Module with Integrated I/O
When you think about FPGAs….
Think:
ACROMAG….
Established 1957…Great Reputation…Made in-house…Made in the USA…Best Support…FPGAs since 2001…Quick Delivery…
Acromag has been around a long time….longer than most of our competition.
We know how to Keep Customers and Grow with them.
Family Concept: Scalability & Flexibility
Continuum of FPGA Sizes
PMC-LX60
PMC-SLC150
IP-EP200
PMC-SX35
PMC-LX40
PMC-VLX110
PMC-VSX95
PMC-VLX85
PMC-VLX155
PMC-VFX70
XMC-SLX150
Purchase only the needed capabilities rather than….
Spending more for what you will not use…
XMC-VLX155
XMC-VLX110
XMC-VLX85 Most of Acromag’s Competitors have fewer choices driving the price up ….
ALSO, for similar capabilities, they may be charging 2X, 3X…
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I/O Flexibility: Mezzanine Modules – AXM-D02 30 Differential – AXM-D03 22 Differential 16 CMOS– AXM-D04 30 LVDS– AXM-A30 2 x 105MHz ADC– AXM-EDK JTAG & LVTTL– CUSTOM
Family Concept: Scalability & Flexibility
Same FPGA supports Wide Variety of COTS I/O
Open Spec Interface enables ANYONE to build a Custom I/O Interface.
Re-Useable Knowledge Base
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Do you mean I can Re-Use my FPGA and I/O Experience ?
With Acromag:
YES YOU CAN !!!
Save Development Cost (Tools & Learning), Reduce Scheduled Development Time (Re-Use Knowledge Base)
Software Support - EDK
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Engineering Design KitAcromag The Competition
Generalized Approach Application Specific
Keeps the Cost Low Charge $10K or More per specialty
Comprehensive but leaves the Application Design to the Customer.
Comprehensive to the Application.
Coupled inexpensively to Board Support Sample Design
Coupled to Board Support by Application with More to Pay
Board Support
Target Hardware
LINUX
Windows
Other
VxWorks
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Demonstrates all functions in FPGA Sample Design.
Enables Customer to Prove within 15 minutes that Acromag Provided a Working Solution:
1. Acromag HW Interfaces to System2. Acromag HW Interfaces to Application
Software Support – Warm Body
• The Acromag FPGA EDK and OS Support packages work perfectly 95% of the time
• Should any issues arise…. Call
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We Will Help
Availability
Product Lead Times can mean the difference between your Customer getting the Project and watching the opportunity go….
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STOCK to THREE WEEKS
Price
• Have you ever had an Acromag Customer complain about Price?
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Performance
Cost
• Acromag’s Bottom Up Strategy Keeps the Cost Low and the on the rise.
So What Does the Best Mean?
• If it means having the latest of everything, very high end Analog Interfaces, and working with the Bleeding Edge….it’s probably not Acromag.
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• If, however, it means High MTBF, Great Support, Lots of Re-Useable Knowledge and Product Experience, Low Customer Frustration, Product On-the-Shelf or Quickly Shipped, and all that with Reasonable Prices (Lowest Cost of Ownership around)……then by far, Acromag is the Best.
That’s US !
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ACROMAG
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