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Scalability

Delivering Competitive Advantage

Aspex’s scalable, software-programmable solutions provide our customers with key business benefits.

Faster time-to-market
Aspex’s Linedancer chips are 100% software programmable, giving significantly faster time-to-market than hardware oriented design approaches such as FPGA and ASIC.

With Linedancer’s software based design flow, the debug cycle is measured in minutes, not days, allowing designers to significantly accelerate the system integration phase.

Reduced risk
Linedancer’s flexible, software defined platforms can significantly reduce risk in product development.

Hardware design can start before the specification is fully defined, giving significant benefits for standards based developments where it can take months or years to fully define the standard.

“With Linedancer, we were able to implement our image processing pipeline in half the time compared to an FPGA-based flow.
As an additional benefit, we estimate that the Linedancer platform would deliver 3x the performance of our FPGA solution, giving us plenty of headroom to add new features and improve the quality of our algorithms.”

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Reduced development cost
The fast time-to-market of software defined platforms translates directly into lower development cost, and more efficient use of your R&D resources.

Linedancer is programmed in extended C, facilitating IP re-use across projects and divisions.

Reduced component cost
Linedancer can deliver the performance levels traditionally associated with expensive, high-end FPGAs and multiple DSPs.

By replacing these components with Linedancer, you can save thousands of dollars on your bill-of-materials costs.

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Scalable price:performance
Linedancer’s unique scalability allows you to deliver multiple products around the same platform, simply by adding or subtracting Linedancer chips to achieve the desired price:performance, with no complex software re-engineering.

And because memory bandwidth scales alongside processing power, you can achieve performance gains that are close to linear with the number of Linedancer chips in the system.

Unlimited features and functionality
With a software defined architecture, the only limit to features and functionality is your imagination. You can add new features to your product after it’s been designed and delivered to your customer – even after it’s deployed in the field.

Unlike FPGAs, where you pay an area and cost penalty for laying down new features even when they are not used, with Linedancer’s software based approach you can enable new features with a simple software branch – the only cost is memory.


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