Pico Computing: FPGA Board
Modular FPGA board offers accelerated computing with lower power consumption compared to CPUs and GPUs.
Pico Computing, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, specializes in highly integrated development and deployment platforms based on field programmable gate array (FPGA) technologies. Applications for Pico Computing technologies include cryptography, networking, signal processing, bioinformatics, and scientific computing. Pico Computing products are used in embedded systems as well as in military, national security and high performance computing (HPC) applications.
Pico Computing offers the M-505 module, the first board released with the Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA. The M-505 is used in conjunction with Pico’s EX-500 PCIe backplane, giving users an easy upgrade path. By pairing the Kintex-7 with their scalable FPGA board architecture, Pico offers a low-power, high-density, high-performance solution that outperforms many other HPC solutions including multi-core systems for integer applications that involve search and pattern matching operations.
Additional Information
- Read the press release, “Pico Computing Develops Xilinx Kintex-7 Module,” in Pico Computing’s Newsroom
- Read more in the article, “Are FPGAs the future or password cracking and supercomputing?” in ExtremeTech