Company History

Alpha Data was established in 1993 to provide state of the art solutions targeted at compute intensive applications.

Alpha Data are now at the leading edge of the new wave of reconfigurable computing. The advent of high density, high speed Field Programmable Gate Arrays has allowed creative designers to redefine system performance. Alpha Data provides the hardware, software and expertise to enable this technology and to ensure rapid time to market and extended time in market.

Hardware is built on industry standard platforms such as PMC, PCI, CompactPCI, PCI Express and VME with popular OS such as Windows 2000, NT, XP, Linux and VxWorks. Supported by application designs in Verilog, VHDL, Simulink and Handel-C.

Customers include Boeing, Rockwell Collins, JPL, Lockheed Martin, Motorola and BAE.

Alpha Data are committed to providing leading-edge solutions which enable our customers to be first to market with state-of-the-art silicon.


    

"In my opinion Alpha Data is, by far, the best COTS board vendor I've dealt with (and I've been in this business for 35 years) and I would wholeheartedly recommend you to other customers."

John Drover - MIT

 

 

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Company Strategy

Goals
At Alpha Data, our goal is to be best in reconfigurable solutions:

  • Best for performance
  • Best for system flexibility
  • Best for system scaleability

Today, see our commitment to performance leadership in systems based on Xilinx Virtex-5.

Tomorrow, hardware may be different, but Alpha Data will still be providing leading-edge systems.

Like all successful companies, Alpha Data has a strong corporate culture. Ours is based on creativity and commitment:

creativity
in design, and in overcoming all obstacles to mutually rewarding business relationships with our customers.

commitment
to engineering excellence in both design and manufacture, commitment to getting the job done, and, above all, commitment to building a good relationship with the customer.

In all our dealings with you, we will never forget the vital importance of timing. All of Alpha Data's people, from top to bottom, know that the right time is now, and tomorrow may be too late.

    

 

 

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Technology Strategy

Alpha Data's technology strategy involves ensuring that our customers are first to market, with extended time in that market. In order to achieve this Alpha Data provide:

  • The largest and fastest FPGAs available
  • Support for industry standard OS and application software
  • Choice of industry standard platforms
  • Seamless migration from development to embedded environments
  • High performance flexible I/O
    
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