HAPS, our ASIC prototyping solution, is a modular system with multi-FPGA motherboards and standard or custom-made daughter boards, which can be stacked together in a variety of ways. Our new Virtex-5 based HAPS-54 has four LX330 devices in FF1760 packages. A single board can hold up to 8 million ASIC gates. For bigger designs, connect several boards together. Stack them on top of each other or use some of the interconnect boards

Among the functions available on standard daughter boards are video processing, various memory types, and interfaces to Ethernet, USB, PCI Express, PCI-X and ARM.

The robust and reliable hardware, together with the modular approach, allows the designer to concentrate on the actual ASIC design, which will shorten the verification time by months. All HAPS products use connectors that conform to the HapsTrak or HapsTrak II standard, a set of rules for pinout and mechanical characteristics, which guarantees compatibility with previous and future generation of HAPS motherboards and daughter boards.