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FPGAs:: Is Acromag the Best?. By: Rowland S. Demko Date: Sept’2011. What Does Best Mean?. Experience Scalability & Flexibility Re-Useable Knowledge Base Software Support Availability Price. Experience. Think: ACROMAG…. Established 1957… Great Reputation… Made in-house…
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FPGAs:: Is Acromag the Best? By: Rowland S. Demko Date: Sept’2011
What Does Best Mean? • Experience • Scalability & Flexibility • Re-Useable Knowledge Base • Software Support • Availability • Price
Experience Think: ACROMAG…. Established 1957… Great Reputation… Made in-house… Made in the USA… Best Support… FPGAs since 2001… Quick Delivery… When you think about FPGAs…. FPGA Module with Integrated I/O Acromag has been around a long time….longer than most of our competition. We know how to Keep Customers and Grow with them.
PMC-VFX70 PMC-SX35 PMC-LX40 PMC-SLC150 IP-EP200 Family Concept: Scalability & Flexibility XMC-VLX155 Continuum of FPGA Sizes PMC-VLX155 • Purchase only the needed capabilities rather than…. • Spending more for what you will not use… PMC-VSX95 XMC-VLX110 XMC-VLX85 PMC-VLX110 • Most of Acromag’s Competitors have fewer choices driving the price up …. • ALSO, for similar capabilities, they may be charging 2X, 3X… Prerformance PMC-VLX85 PMC-LX60 XMC-SLX150 Price
Family Concept: Scalability & Flexibility I/O Flexibility: Mezzanine Modules • AXM-D02 30 Differential • AXM-D03 22 Differential 16 CMOS • AXM-D04 30 LVDS • AXM-A30 2 x 105MHz ADC • AXM-EDK JTAG & LVTTL • CUSTOM • Same FPGA supports Wide Variety of COTS I/O • Open Spec Interface enables ANYONE to build a Custom I/O Interface.
Re-Useable Knowledge Base With Acromag: YES YOU CAN !!! Do you mean I can Re-Use my FPGA and I/O Experience ? Save Development Cost (Tools & Learning), Reduce Scheduled Development Time (Re-Use Knowledge Base)
Software Support - EDK Engineering Design Kit
Board Support Enables Customer to Prove within 15 minutes that Acromag Provided a Working Solution: Demonstrates all functions in FPGA Sample Design. Acromag HW Interfaces to System Acromag HW Interfaces to Application
Software Support – Warm Body • The Acromag FPGA EDK and OS Support packages work perfectly 95% of the time • Should any issues arise…. Call We Will Help
Availability Product Lead Times can mean the difference between your Customer getting the Project and watching the opportunity go…. STOCK to THREE WEEKS
Price • Have you ever had an Acromag Customer complain about Price? • Acromag’s Bottom Up Strategy Keeps the Cost Low and the on the rise. Performance Cost
So What Does the Best Mean? • If it means having the latest of everything, very high end Analog Interfaces, and working with the Bleeding Edge….it’s probably not Acromag. • If, however, it means High MTBF, Great Support, Lots of Re-Useable Knowledge and Product Experience, Low Customer Frustration, Product On-the-Shelf or Quickly Shipped, and all that with Reasonable Prices (Lowest Cost of Ownership around)……then by far, Acromag is the Best. That’s US !
ACROMAG THE END