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Newtouch Delivers 4th Gen Large-Scale Prototyping System with Xilinx FPGA

Newtouch’s PHINEDesign Platform Uses Xilinx® Virtex® UltraScale+™ FPGA to Deliver Highest Logic Density for Device Prototyping and Simulation

[CASE STUDY]

SUMMARY:

In recent years, China’s domestic chip market has developed rapidly, and demand for verification, simulation, and testing in the chip design process has also increased sharply. Newtouch Electronics was looking to update its PHINEDesign FPGA prototyping platform with the latest FPGA technology available. The company’s two most-recent platform generations were built on Xilinx’s Virtex-7 2000T FPGA and Virtex UltraScale VU440 FPGA devices, respectively.

When Xilinx extended its world largest-capacity FPGA record with the launch of its Virtex UltraScale+ VU19P FPGA in August 2019, Newtouch jumped on the opportunity to incorporate this technology into its 4th generation PHINEDesign platform - NE-VU19P-LSI. The result is improved verification efficiency, shorter verification cycles, and faster customer time-to-market.

CHALLENGE:

Since 2014, Newtouch has been providing high-quality FPGA prototyping platforms, named PHINEDesign, that are all based on Xilinx’s most-advanced FPGA technologies. The company’s two most-recent platform generations were built on Xilinx’s Virtex-7 2000T and Virtex  UltraScale VU440 FPGA devices, respectively. 

Demand for verification, simulation, and testing in the chip design process has increased sharply in China in recent years, so Newtouch turned to Xilinx technology for its next-generation, high-volume PHINEDesign platform.

RESULT:

Newtouch’s fourth-generation PHINEDesign NE-VU19P-LSI platform has improved verification efficiency of up to 30% for some ASIC prototypes or large-scale SoC developments. For customers who need larger scale verification, the new platform can save almost 50% of the workload on resource partitioning, which significantly shortens the verification cycle, and accelerates the customers’time-to-market.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: 

More about this CASE: Xilinx-Newtouch-Case-Study- FINAL.pdf

Learn More About Xilinx’s Virtex® UltraScale™ VU19P FPGA

Newtouch Electronics (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in 2004 as one of the first generation of enterprises using FPGA chips in the world. It now has more than 10 years of hardware IC and FPGA design experience. In 2014, Newtouch launched its own FPGA prototype platform, PHINEDesign, which has continued to evolve over

three generations of innovation.