Star Bridge Systems, Inc. The Hypercomputing Company Presentation to MAPLD September 2004 Rebecca Krull, Director of Sales Brad Alston, Director of Customer Service

The Starbridge Solution: Hypercomputing General Purpose Object-Oriented Hardware Design Tool For large, complex algorithms For embedded systems High Performance Computing (HPC) Reconfigurable Accelerator Board Accelerating complex, data-intensive or compute-intensive algorithms

Viva Development Platform FPGA-Programming Environment Viva Graphical Language Capture native parallelism Tune algorithms for speed or space Interactively debug code running in hardware Prototype Viva on X86 machine Libraries Basic math, File I/O, Memory Objects Library Objects are Polymorphic Integer, Fixed Point, Floating Point, Complex, Vector Compiler/Synthesizer Compile multimillion gate designs, multi-FPGA designs Bridges to Traditional Environments EDIF to Viva/ Viva to EDIF Translator API calls from C, C++ in Windows or Linux environments System Descriptions ‘Device Drivers’ for hardware platforms Page 8

Viva Development Platform New Benefits and Improvements Compiler Significant Speed Increase Library Memory Objects File I/O Objects Overloading of data types, including floating point Object Attribute Inheritance Pipelining of math objects (in progress) C API Program Hypercomputer with pre-compiled Viva bit streams Transfer data to Hypercomputer from a C program Uses standard POSIX calls Algorithms Smith-Waterman, Kirchoff Time Migration

Hypercomputers: High-Performance FPGA Accelerators Page 9

Structure of an FPGA Processing Element Page 10

Structure of a Processing Element Quad Page 11

Hypercomputer Architecture Page 12

Hypercomputer New Benefits and Improvements Increased PCI-X Bus Speed DMA Implementation Linux Drivers Hypercomputer runs in both Windows and Linux environments System Descriptions Smiths Aerospace Honeywell HRSC XESS XSV Air Force GMIP SGI Open Architecture SGI server accommodates the HC-62 accelerator board

Star Bridge Systems, Inc. Thank You Star Bridge Systems, Inc. 6925 Union Park Center Midvale,UT 84047 (801) 984-4444 www.starbridgesystems.com