Pairing new FPGA-based IP from partner companies with BittWare’s compute, network, storage and sensor processing accelerator products, the BittWare Partner Program intends to reduce risk while accelerating time to market.
As FPGAs increase in size, complexity and performance, the development of customized IP and board level capabilities can prove time-consuming, expensive and resource-intensive. The BittWare Partner Program is designed to simplify and streamline customer deployments of these high performance, data intensive applications. According to BittWare it removes major time-to-market and technology hurdles by facilitating an ecosystem of FPGA-based enablement IP and full solutions that use BittWare’s proven FPGA accelerator technology.
The programme empowers FPGA designers to access a robust ecosystem of proven IP cores, tools, frameworks and solutions from a central source, explains Craig Petrie, vice president of sales and marketing at BittWare. “In doing so, we are uniquely positioned to close critical gaps in the FPGA design process while reducing risk and accelerating commercialisation of innovative, high-performance applications.”
The partner programme aligns products from industry-leading and emerging IP providers with BittWare’s compute, network, storage and sensor processing accelerator technologies. In addition to achieving faster out-of-the-box functionality, the ability to combine critical components of the FPGA design process reduces engineering and programming requirements, points out the company. This enables customers to focus in-demand resources on developing other capabilities.
Customers have the opportunity to collaborate much earlier in the design process to meet the varying demands of powerful next-generation applications, such as AI, machine learning inference, database acceleration, computational storage, 5G, test and measurement and security.
The inaugural list of ten partners includes Intel – BittWare leverages the Intel Agilex FPGA technology and oneAPI toolkits to simplify development of high performance computing (HPC) applications; EdgeCortix (an edge AI-focused fabless semiconductor company) and Megh Computing, provider of real-time, AI-based video analytics. For network development, Atomic Rules provides mission-critical, enterprise-grade IP cores and solutions from the data centre to the edge; Enyx specialises in low latency, FPGA-enabled technologies for the financial, telecomms and HPC sectors; Grovf develops application acceleration and network offload solutions using FPGA chips; Siama Systems specialises in Ethernet/IP network infrastructure test for 5G RAN, MEC and data centres and Xiphera develops cryptographic IP cores, designed directly for FPGAs.
Other partners address storage, namely Eideticom (computational storage for cloud, HPC and enterprise data centres) and IntelliProp, which provides IP cores, ASIC design and verification services for the storage industry.
BittWare, a Molex company, designs and manufactures enterprise-class FPGA hardware.
Molex has a presence in more than 40 countries, and enables technology innovation in the automotive, data centre, industrial automation, healthcare, 5G, cloud and consumer device industries.
