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

2. 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

3. 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
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4. 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

5. Hypercomputers: High-Performance FPGA Accelerators
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6. Structure of an FPGA Processing Element
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7. Structure of a Processing Element Quad
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8. Hypercomputer Architecture
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9. 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

10. Star Bridge Systems, Inc.
Thank You
Star Bridge Systems, Inc.
6925 Union Park Center
Midvale,UT 84047
(801)