Value Proposition

Traditionally, FPGA development has required the use of low-level, text-based design languages, such as VHDL and Verilog that were originally designed for circuitry layout rather than for high-performance and embedded computing. Research institutions and government agencies need a way to get faster turnaround at a lower cost when solving complex problems. As such, they need a way to rapidly accelerate large, computationally intensive applications or algorithms in order to decrease the time and expense required.

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are recognized in the industry for their ability to handle millions of instructions per second in parallel. Viva™ development software from Starbridge Systems, Inc., is a new high-level, graphical, object-oriented programming tool that brings FPGA programming to a new level of ease and power. Viva simplifies hardware design for complex, supercomputer-realm and embedded systems applications, providing a platform for creating reusable and expandable library objects written for numerical methods.