Xilinx System Module Platforms
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Crossfire is a Shooter where you can't shoot! Instead, you'll have to run straight into the enemy's crossfire in an attempt to get them to shoot themselves! I know this sounds difficult but don't worry, you can slow down time! Use that to your advantage while in their crossfire. The potential for CrossFire on Apple's Macs Apple's OS X doesn't support currently CrossFire, however, as the technology requires firmware and driver support that AMD currently only supplies for.
The CrossFire System Module Platform is architected as a “concept to production” answer to the challenges of engineering, prototyping and releasing to production a miniaturized System on Module (SoM) based on the Xilinx MPSoC family of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).
CrossFire’s ultraminiature system modules are designed to fit within smaller packaged FPGA footprints. Custom implementations are available.
CrossFire’s platform solution efficiently enables engineering teams to meet their system requirements.
| Requirement | CrossFire's Solution |
|---|---|
| A customizable and readily available hardware and software “evaluation platform” that satisfies the base requirements of a particular use case or market and facilitates a proof of concept (PoC) prototype. | Customers can begin their “proof of concept” (PoC) development utilizing the currently existing ecosystem of Xilinx evaluation boards. CrossFire recommends either the Xilinx “ZCU” family of evaluation kits or the “UltraZed” family of MPSoC-based carrier cards as starting points. |
| A seamless path from PoC to engineering prototype, pre-production, and then production-qualified devices. | Once the proof of concept is finalized, it is on to the engineering prototype. With CrossFire, the typical path is to start with one of our existing modules. Some applications will be able to utilize a module as is, while others will need tweaking to meet the PoC requirements. This process typically takes 3 – 12 months, depending on the degree of customization required. |
| A comprehensive ecosystem (including software, prototyping resources, intellectual property, validation, and certification) to support the device development throughout its lifecycle. | Through its partnership with Xilinx, CrossFire customers have access to their extensive design ecosystem which enables the use of complex FPGAs in various applications. CrossFire’s modules are compatible with Xilinx’s Vivado platform, providing a seamless transition from proof of concept to volume production |
| MPSoC | Footprint (mm x mm) | DRAM (DDR4) | Boot Flash (Quad SPI) | NOR FLASH (eMMC) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZU9-EG | 23 x 23 | 1GB, 2GB, 4GB | 512Mb | 4GB, 8GB |
| ZU7-EV | 23 x 23 | 1GB, 2GB, 4GB | 512Mb | 4GB, 8GB |
| ZU5-EV | 21 x 21 | 1GB, 2GB, 4GB | 512Mb | 4GB, 8GB |
| ZU3-EG | 19 x 19 | 1GB, 2GB, 4GB | 512Mb | 4GB, 8GB |
| ZU28 | TBD | TBD | TBD | TBD |
Customized Platform Modules and Application-Specific Standard Products (ASSPs)
As design engineers attempt to cover as many use cases as possible within the definition of a standard product, the tradeoffs can sometimes turn “one size fits all” into “one size fits none.” As an alternative, CrossFire can easily customize a module or ASSP to better fit a given use case. For example, a module footprint could be changed to better fit system requirements. Functionality can be added or subtracted (doubling or removing DRAM, for example); resources can be substituted (replace DRAM with Flash), or virtually any design modification required.
Full Custom Solutions
To design a fully optimized system often requires starting with a blank sheet of paper, and CrossFire’s technology excels in this space. On average, CrossFire’s design platform can deliver most of the functionality of a System on Chip (SoC) with our Heterogeneous System on Chip (HSoC) offering – in less than 25% of the time with significantly lower cost. This HSoC can then be combined with standard ASSP and FPGA die into a die-based module to yield the maximum benefit in performance, power, size, and weight for the particular application. Full custom designs can even become the basis for a “company specific standard product,” which can then be tuned for different applications.
CROSSFIRE CHIPLET SYSTEM
The typical design process for System-on-Chip (SoC) designs involve a combination of internal, third party, and foundry intellectual property (IP) blocks. Often these ICs are built on a bulk CMOS process, which may result in non-optimal characteristics for circuitry other than standard digital logic. Achieving target specifications for these blocks is becoming increasingly difficult as semiconductor geometries approach single digits in nanometers.
A better approach would select the optimum technology for each functional block of the IC and stitch these heterogeneous chiplets together into a “System of Chiplets.” However, the design challenge using this approach is that conventional interconnect density is limited by the accuracy of the pick-and-place equipment used to reconstitute the SoC from its component chiplets – typically about ±5 microns. Thus, connections can only be made in 10-micron increments.
Crossfire’s patented technology has broken this barrier with Interconnect densities tighter than previously implementable, delivering a significant advantage for design engineers using high pin count interfaces, such as high bandwidth memory (HBM).
CrossFire’s semiconductor interconnect is characterized in two classes:
CrossFire Connected
CrossFire Connected refers to the process of connecting ICs or chiplets using standard Input/Output (I/O) circuitry. In this case, the CrossFire process simply interconnects standard ICs to achieve higher density interconnections.
CrossFire Architected
Conventional semiconductor I/Os include ESD protection and are designed to drive high capacitance package interconnect traces. However, when connecting chiplets, this type of circuitry is not optimized for the use case, resulting in higher power consumption and taking up more area than required.
CrossFire Architected interconnect uses a unique approach to interconnect two standard devices with higher density. By integrating the desired functionality into the chiplet I/Os, even greater density is available.
Fixed it!
So, not only would Crossfire not enable under Windows 8.1 on my Mac Pro in Boot Camp... But Windows started crashing massively. I was about to wipe Boot Camp entirely and try a clean install (even though the only three things I'd installed were Windows itself using Apple's exact instructions, Steam, and Skyrim), but decided in a last ditch effort to try disconnecting and reconnecting peripherals.
Turns out the culprit was my Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock.
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Disconnecting the Belkin Thunderbolt dock not only stopped Windows from crashing, but now I can enable Crossfire, as well!
Now, this is especially strange since I have read elsewhere that people have no problems using the Belkin dock under Boot Camp with other Macs... This issue is probably isolated to using it in Boot Camp with the new Mac Pro. But disconnecting the dock from my Mac Pro has solved not just one but all of my Boot Camp issues. (Of course, using the Belkin dock under OSX on my Mac Pro is no problem.)
Long story short, if you have a new Mac Pro and plan on using Windows 8.1 under Boot Camp, don't have the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock attached.
I'm going to contact Belkin and tell them what I've discovered.
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Hope that helps y'all.
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Mar 16, 2014 9:24 AM