SOC/ASIC Prototyping

BEEcube hardware platforms provide real world, real time, cycle accurate prototyping and functional verification and validation of RTL based chipsets, including multi-core SoC’s and software bring up. They are designed to target new SoC and multi-core CPU architecture exploration and high-speed SoC or IP ASIC RTL gate level prototyping and verification.

The BEE for ASIC/SoC RTL prototyping was a joint effort between Sun OpenSPARC group, Xilinx and BEEcube. It has been established as the standard platform for SPARC-based multi-core system development.

Wireless Communication

BEEcube’s BEE3-W platform excels at real time development and deployment, targeting wireless and digital communications design. With combined ADC and DAC modules and the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA based BEE3 hardware platform, BEE3-W enables a wide range of high-performance implementations, including wireless communications.

Simultaneous capture of the analog output signal allows data to be directly presented to the user via standard low-cost algorithm display tools (like Matlab) in real time, without the need for additional equipment. The ADC reference design can sample at rates up to 3GHz, which provides true direct RF (radio frequency) sampling capability.

Aerospace & Defense

BEEcube’s hardware platforms enable a wide range of high-performance, real time implementations in multiple military and defense applications including signal intelligence, signal warfare, software defined radio, MIMO communications, radar applications, and many more.

Advanced signal processing algorithms can be rapidly prototyped, running at hundreds or MHz clock rates, which directly interface to multi-GHz A/D and D/A converters. When it comes to deployment, the same design can be easily retargeted in the BEEcube Platform Studio (BPS) design environment to fit into various hardware platforms with different form factors, capabilities, and FPGA technologies.

High-Speed Networking

Our platforms are ideal for network prototyping and I/O performance testing. It allows for verification and prototyping of real packet data at real loads of networks chipsets, including PHYs, at Gbps+ interface speeds.

BEEcube’s Sting I/O allow for:

• High speed inter FPGA and module interface
• Aurora compatability
• High speeds -20Gbps (full duplex)
• Streaming
• Unlimited virtual pin structure

Computer Architecture

The BEE platforms unique technology makes it an ideal platform for computer architecture development and prototyping. Its symmetrical Honeycomb Architecture removes all system bottlenecks and provides design flexibility while its high-speed Sting I/O allows you to challenge your algorithm design to interact with the real world at real time speeds.

The BEE platforms also provide reliable scaling, making them very popular with multi-core computer architect developers.

HD Video Imaging

BEE platforms are ideal for HD video processing. They support high definition video processing with multiple real time 1080p video data streams.

One of BEEcube’s demonstrations includes a live HD video processor based prototype, highlighting the BEE platforms Sting I/O full-speed streaming capability and on-the-fly DRAM capture.  Captured data streams are downloaded via Gigabit Ethernet, and analyzed on a remote workstation using industry-standard waveform viewers for low-level, RTL signal debugging. And within the same design remote-access of dual 2GB frame buffers in native frame format, which allows live video to be delayed, paused, or manipulated in real-time, highlighting the BEE platform’s uniquely simultaneous “full speed” RTL level and application level debug features.

Research

BEEcube’s boards are currently being used as a research platform by over 100 leading universities worldwide for a variety of applications. In addition, there are over 50 published papers highlighting BEEcube technology for a wide range of applications including: multi-core computer architecture, wireless communications, 100Gbps+ networking solutions, HD video processing, signal intelligence, radar/sonar array, bioinformatics, data mining, medical imaging, and more. For a complete list of published papers, e-mail us.