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BIOS AP: Server Appliances

FPGAs simplify design and reduce costs for surveillance and storage applications.

BIOS AP Taiwan, an alliance partner of RAID (redundant array of independent disks) controller and system company BIOS Corp. Japan, designed Xilinx FPGAs into its ROMB miniITX ATOM motherboard for leading surveillance server and network-attached storage system applications.

The FPGAs are being embedded into a RAID motherboard to enable system integrators to build highly reliable server appliances, such as surveillance video recorders and network-attached storage. This particular ROMB appliance supports high sustained throughput and reliable data storage for new digital surveillance video recorders. Xilinx FPGAs have enabled designers to simplify the design of hardware and reduce production costs. Additionally, the inherent flexibility of FPGAs provides a highly programmable configuration and compact design that can be adapted to incorporate new features without changing the hardware.

Our partnering company, BIOS Corp. Japan, has a long history of success working with Xilinx for over 10 years now, so it made sense to continue the accomplished relationship. The Xilinx FPGAs played a key role as we introduce the first single chip RAID 6 ATOM motherboard in the world with dual Gigabit Ethernet and six hard drive interface which will be available in March 2012. We are looking forward to the next generation of Xilinx FPGAs, including the integration of CPU cores. We believe an all-in-one solution will deliver better cost performance in the future. 

- Dennis Lin, President of BIOS AP

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