Pico Communications E-15 Computer Hardware User Manual


 
Pico E-15 Hardware Reference
www.picocomputing.com
Pico Computing
(206) 283-2178
150 Nickerson Street. Suite 311
Seattle, WA 98109
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Product Overview:
The Pico family of products are revolutionary FPGA based embedded acceleration platforms.
With performance that often exceeds modern microcomputers, a shockingly small form factor,
and nominal power consumption that is less than one watt, the Pico family of products take
computing to a whole new level.
The Pico E-15 is based on the high-performance Virtex-4 FPGA chip. This device has the
performance and power consumption of a custom chip (ASIC), but is completely
reconfigurable! The E-15 features four high speed converters and direct video capture.
Advanced users will enjoy the open source development kits which allow absolute control over
the hardware. For those who desire a more high level approach to firmware, Viva provides a
graphical development model. Impulse C™ support is also included for rapid firmware
development in the C programming language. Board support packages are available for
operating systems such as Linux,
µC/OS, Green Hills Integrity OS™ and VX Works.