When you're seeking simulation solutions, it's not just about today, but the life cycle of the system. After all, the average obsolescence of a traditional GPU graphics card is as little as six months.

That's why we looked to longer-lasting, flexible technology for the purpose-built EP®-8000: the Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). On its own, this COTS technology offers streamlined processing, rapid customizable programming, high bandwidth, and  standard interfaces such as PCIe, and DDR memory. Combined with our hardware and software acceleration-programmed upon system boot-up-the FPGA offers you unprecedented value over the system's life cycle, with more reliability, customizability, and upgrade and expansion possibilities.

The EP®-8000 also features other COTS components, including the latest PC server technology of multi-core CPUs and high speed standard memory technologies, for maximum performance at low cost and reduced maintenance.

Benefits of this technology approach:

• The EP-8000 provides flexibility throughout the rendering pipeline. Additional features, increased performance, and corrections can be made anywhere in the system.
• Software-based rendering model allows feature and performance enhancements via firmware updates
• Design cycle time for FPGA is significantly shorter than ASIC solutions, which allows for rapid implementation of new rendering algorithms
• Incremental design and test for added features or performance can be done with significant reduction in risk and development costs.
• FPGA design provides much longer support life of product
• The long life cycles of FPGAs minimize non-recurring expenses often associated with product obsolescence management
• The EP-8000 has fewer components and a much higher Mean Time Between Failure( MTBF) and much lower  Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) translating to lower life-cycle costs