The BEE3 hardware platform is the ideal emulation and validation engine for designers who are interested in developing hardware or software applications based on the OpenSPARC T1 core, the world's first freely-available 64-bit CMT microprocessor. As part of a joint development effort with Sun Microsystems and Xilinx, BEEcube is proud to offer official support for the BEE3 platform as of the 1.7 OpenSPARC T1 hardware release.

OpenSPARC development on BEE3 enables designers to reach significantly higher levels of performance and memory capacity than were previously available using single-FPGA evaluation boards alone. A single BEE3 module is capable of emulating a SPARC multi-core CMT system featuring:

• Quad-core OpenSPARC T1 processor
• 4 concurrent threads per core
• Binary-compatible OpenSolaris or Ubuntu Linux operating system
• Self-contained, high-performance inter-core crossbar
• Full hardware emulation of T1 Niagara components (such as L2 cache)
• 64GB ECC DRAM
• PCI Express x8 and 10Gigabit Ethernet external I/O

For BEE3 purchasing information, including pricing and build options, please contact sales@beecube.com. Academic discounts are available.

For more information on the OpenSPARC project, please visit http://www.opensparc.net.

For more information on Xilinx and the Xilinx University Program, please visit http://www.xilinx.com/univ.

For current OpenSPARC on BEE3 developers, the latest Xilinx EDK IP cores and drivers for BEE3 can be downloaded here: edk_bee3.1.7.tar.gz