Pico Communications E-14 - Manual (Page 3)

E‐14 Hardware Reference Manual www.picocomputing.com Pico Computing, Inc.
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Product Overview:
The Pico families of product are revolutionary embedded platforms. With performance that often
exceeds modern microcomputers, a shockingly small form factor, and nominal power consumption
that is less than one watt, the Pico family of products takes computing to a whole new level.
The Pico E‐14 is based on the revolutionary Virtex‐4 chip. This device has the performance and power
consumption of a custom chip (ASIC), but is completely reconfigurable! The Pico E‐14 EP (Embedded
Processor) can be configured with either the FX20 FX40 or FX60 Virtex 4 FPGA.
Advanced users will enjoy the open source development kits that allow absolute control over the
hardware. Those who desire a high level programming environment can use Simulink® to implement
custom algorithms in hardware with just the click of a button. Impulse C™ support is also included for
rapid firmware development in the C programming language. Board support packages are available for
operating systems such as Linux or
μC/OS.