Nallatech is a computer hardware and software firm based in Camarillo, California, United States.[1] The company specializes in field-programmable gate array (FPGA) integrated circuit technology applied in computing. As of 2007 the company's primary markets include defense and high-performance computing.[2] Nallatech was acquired by Interconnect Systems, Inc. in 2008,[3] which in turn was bought by Molex in 2016.[4]
Background
The company was founded by Allan Cantle ('Nalla' comes from 'Allan' spelled backwards) in 1993 and was backed by over £4 million of equity finance provided by Scottish Equity Partners and 3i. Cantle was the CEO for the firm,[5] later moving into president and CTO roles.
In 2005 Nallatech announced a Scottish group known as the FPGA High Performance Computing Alliance, to work on a supercomputer.[6]
Nallatech's direct sales team operates in two main geographic areas, one in the US and one in UK covering UK, Europe and rest of the world. The team in the USA[rdp-wiki-embed url='https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ameerika_%C3%9Chendriigid'] More (Nallatech, Inc.) sales office in Eldersburg, Maryland and headquartered in Camarillo, California.[7]
Nallatech is a member of the OpenPOWER Foundation.[8]
Products
Nallatech was promoted for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGA technology applied in computing.[5][7] According to David R. Martinez, Robert A. Bond, and M. Michael Vai, Nallatech systems are "based on a modular design concept in which the designer chooses the number of FPGAs, amount and type of memory, and other expansion cards to include in a system."[9]
Nallatech is also known for its motherboards with PCI cards which provide a "high throughput connection over which a host PC can provide and receive data and monitor system performance."[10][11][12]
On June 17, 2015, it released the 385A FPGA Accelerator Card, which includes the Altera Arria 10 / 1150 FPGA, PCI-Express form factor and works with most major servers, including IBM, HP and Dell.[citation needed]
In March 2011 the company announced a miniaturization service for its FPGAs.[13]
In 2012, Nallatech has partnered with Altera, and integrated its PCI Express card with Stratix V FPGAs.[14]
Xilinx's Xtreme DSP kit was developed with Nallatech, and like Xilinx, Nallatech uses "floating-point cores" in its FPGAs.[15][16]
References
- ↑ Baker, David (2004). Jane's Space Directory. Jane's Information Group. p. 278. ISBN 9780710626387.
- ↑ "Powerful Partners Helping Drive FPGA System Supplier Nallatech's Success" (PDF). Clabby Analytics. June 2007. Retrieved 2013-08-21.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Company Overview" (PDF). Interconnect Systems, Inc. February 2012. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ↑ "Molex buys ISI, gets Nallatech in the process". 13 April 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- 1 2 Aerospace Engineering. Society of Automotive Engineers. 2006. p. 6.
- ↑ "Nallatech Helps Forge Alliance to Advance FPGA-Based High-Performance Computing". Press release. 25 May 2006. Archived from the original on 22 June 2015. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
- 1 2 Boogar, Steve. Directory of Electronics Technologies. BoogarLists. p. 64. GGKEY:6PUKR52C2TJ.
- ↑ "Current Members". OpenPOWER Foundation. Retrieved 2017-03-28.
- ↑ Martinez, David R.; Bond, Robert A.; Vai, M. Michael (20 June 2008). High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective. Taylor & Francis. p. 250. ISBN 978-1-4200-0666-7.
- ↑ Cantoni, V. (2000). Proceedings: Computer Architectures for Machine Perception. IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, IEEE Computer Society Press,. p. 300. ISBN 9780769507408.
- ↑ Grayver, Eugene (20 July 2012). Implementing Software Defined Radio. Springer. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-4419-9332-8.
- ↑ Agha, Khaldoun Al; Omidyar, Cambyse Guy (1 January 2003). The Proceedings of the Fifth IFIP-TC6 International Conference on Mobile and Wireless Communications Networks: Singapore, 27-29 October 2003. World Scientific. p. 246. ISBN 978-981-279-114-6.
- ↑ Clive Maxfield (2011-03-15). "Nallatech offers FPGA miniaturization services for commercial and military applications". EE Times. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ↑ Loring Wirbel (April 6, 2012). "Two new Stratix milestones from NovaSparks and Nallatech". EDN Network. Retrieved 2013-08-21.
- ↑ Cheung, Peter Y. K.; Constantinides, George A.; Sousa, Josâe T. de (1 January 2003). Field-Programmable Logic and Applications: 13th International Conference, FPL 2003, Lisbon, Portugal, September 1-3, 2003, Proceedings. Springer. p. 980. ISBN 978-3-540-40822-2.
- ↑ Zhuo, Ling (2007). High-performance Linear Algebra on Reconfigurable Computing Systems. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-549-25111-8.