VAutomation

Partner Profile

Partner Overview AllianceCORE Products Areas of Technical Expertise Contact VAutomation

Overview VAutomation was one of the first companies to recognize the need for re-usable intellectual property (IP) ÐÐ or cores ÐÐ when designing with ASICs and FPGAs. Since 1994, it has provided synthesizable HDL-based cores for microprocessors and serial communications controllers. VAutomation pre-designed and verified cores allow microprocessors and serial communications controllers, the 8086 and Universal Serial Bus for example, to be implemented within an ASIC or FPGA for true system-on-chip design. Our cores are strictly synchronous making them easy to synthesize to any technology. Synthesis and timing analysis are simple, push-button operations with the sample scripts provided with each core. A comprehensive testbench is also provided for design verification and functional test vector extraction. All of our cores have been thoroughly verified in silicon using Xilinx FPGA technology. Evaluation silicon is available for evaluating our cores and to enable early software/hardware integration. The V8-uRISC 8-bit RISC microprocessor and VUSB Universal Serial Bus Microcontroller cores are supported via the IntelliCore Prototyping System. This system, based on one to four XC4028 FPGAS, allows our cores and user logic to be easily prototyped and debugged. VAutomation is exclusively focused on providing synthesizable cores. We market and sell our products through a direct sales and support operation headquartered in Nashua, N.H. The company is privately held with seed funding provided by its founders. The AllianceCORE Products Table shows AllianceCORE products available from VAutomation. Adobe Acrobat versions of the datasheets for these can be downloaded from the table. Contact VAutomation for pricing. AllianceCORE Products to view the pdf files below.

Product	Functional Description
Processor Products
V8 uRISC	V8 uRISC 8-Bit FPGA-Based RISC Microprocessor
Supporting Development Tools
IntelliCore System	Xilinx FPGA-based core prototyping system for VAutomation cores.

Additional Areas of Technical Expertise The following table of products demonstrates additional areas of VAutomation technical expertise. Xilinx and VAutomation are in the process of evaluating these to determine which are suitable as AllianceCORE products. If you have a need for a specific product then contact VAutomation for information or availability.

Product	Functional Description	Gates
Processor Products
V6502	65C02 8-bit microprocessor	4,000
VZ80	Z80 8-bit microprocessor	8,000
V8086	I8086 16-bit microprocessor	18,000
V186	I80186 16-bit microcontroller	28,000
Communications and Networking
V960	AM79C960 10 Mbps Ethernet LAN	17,000
V526	82526 HDLC controller	5,000
VUSB	USB Device Microcontroller	8,000

Contact VAutomation 20 Trafalgar Square Suite 443 (4th Floor) Nashua NH 03063 USA Phone: +1 603-882-2282 Fax: +1 603-882-1587 E-mail: sales@vautomation.com URL: www.vautomation.com Use the following form to contact VAutomation.To help us better answer your request for information please list the product(s) you are interested in and describe the project(s) in the comment field. When complete, press SUBMIT to send your message. All fields, except Fax, are required.

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