CSPI, a supplier of rugged embedded clusters, announced its new FastCluster FPGA development platform.

The company said that the new development platform includes a Virtex-5 FPGA XMC development board, a board support package and the CoreFire design suite on a window based PC providing all the components necessary to develop and debug computational intensive DSP applications.

This development platform is expected to deliver an efficient solution for engineers to start prototyping their FPGA applications targeted for deployment on the FastCluster XL-Gate architecture.

Bernard Pelon, director of product research at CSP, said: “The FastCluster FPGA development platform integrates Annapolis Micro System’s development tools and DSP libraries with FastCluster FPGA XMC modules. The GUI and dataflow model offer the hardware abstraction required to accelerate the programming of the 1000’s of Xilinx DSP48E slices available on the FastCluster platform.”