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FPGA enhances digital photo album functionality

By David Auyeung (Altera)
In an example using an FPGA development kit to try out innovative designs, a student team explores the possibilities for going beyond the basic digital picture frame.

Case study: Using VME to build an FPGA-based data acquisition system

By Fred Joerger (Joerger Enterprises, Inc.)
While many have turned away from VME in favor of VXS, VPX, and even PC-based “computer motherboard” modules, among other iterations, this case study shows that VME is still a viable candidate in FPGA-based data acquisition systems. The primary reasons: Its high pin counts and additional P0 connector – plusses that came in handy when Joerger Enterprises designed its new module’s basecards and daughtercards.

GPUs lend key flexibility in high-performance military computing systems

By Leslee Schneider (Quantum3D, Inc.)
With changing political and even social environments driving demand for the latest “run-faster, jump-higher” processing wares, GPUs – combined with GPPs, DSPs, and/or FPGAs – just might make the “miracle” supercomputing system a reality. Variables to consider include power consumption, compute power, life-cycle extension, and physical environment.

IP tag technology identifies stolen FPGA designs, tracks the security leak

By Paul Dillien (High Tech Marketing)
Theft of sensitive military designs is not a new problem, but new technology development is providing a novel way to identify IP ownership and trace FPGA design theft with a noninvasive, nondestructive test. This is accomplished via an IP tag that emits coded thermal signals. The thermal signals can only be detected by authorized users to provide a discrete way of signaling internal conditions from a working chip. In addition, it can be adapted to help fight the growing problem of fake devices and monitor system status more effectively than RF tags or electrical signaling.

Releasing the full potential of FPGA-based designs

By Rob Evans (Altium Limited)
For all the power and flexibility FPGAs bring to embedded designs, the additional development process injects new levels of complexity and constraint into the design workflow. Unifying the conventional hardware-FPGA-software design processes to make full use of FPGA reprogrammability is one way forward.

Joint FPGA-DSP grab, squeeze, and send effort sees video compression success

By Tim Klassen (GE Intelligent Platforms)
Adding an FPGA to a team that includes a hybrid DSP device with a general-purpose CPU and DSP engine makes for a productive take on interfacing with numerous dissimilar video standards, compressing them to a common standard, and transmitting the result over an Ethernet link.

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DC-HSPA+, MediaTek's rise, and training wheels

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Will examines several reasons MediaTek looks to be more of a contender as 2010 Q1 begins.

Taming Software-Defined Radio: A graphical user interface for digital communication system prototyping

By Michael J. Leferman (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)) and Alexander M. Wyglinski (Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI))
Dream Stream: Getting around what would have been an arduous learning curve by using Simulink for streaming access to the Universal Software Radio Peripheral 2 (USRP2)

For floating-point processing, new choice arrives with the new decade

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Rob outlines several reasons developers addressing COTS military signal processing have reason to consider the Intel Core i7 micro-architecture.

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White Paper: High performance PSK demodulator in FPGA for wireless communication receivers

By Dr. Chun-Mei Kang (Innovative Integration)
Innovative Integration has developed a high performance baseband B/Q/8PSK demodulator that works at symbol rate up to 1.4MSPS and locks within 50 msec.

Achieving flexible power management for embedded systems

By Palani Subbiah (Cypress Semiconductor)
Programmable SoCs allow users to build their own custom peripherals using a highly configurable system.

FPGAs, IP, platforms on target

By Vin Ratford (Xilinx)
Innovation in embedded applications will require new levels of programmability and high computational performance.

OpenVPX and high-speed interconnects usher in a new era of highly scalable DSP systems

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Hinderances to building large-scale DSP systems are falling by the wayside.

Intel tries DSP again...using a "soft" approach

By Chris A. Ciufo, Editor
Software is key to Intel's DSP plans.

Q4 sees buys, mergers, and a niche player worth watching

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Insights from Will on the cell phone chip market. lossless signal compression, and more

Unraveling debug and design verification snags

By Paul Bradley (DAFCA)
Growing FPGA complexity need not equal a corresponding growth in costs or time to market.

Performance, flexibility, and efficiency make the case for market-specific DSPs

By Eran Briman (CEVA)
4G wireless communications processing and HD video/audio processing are among the challenges market-specific DSPs are gearing up to handle.

Tackling Linux size, modularity, and GPL issues

By Kim Rowe (Rowebots)
Kim outlines options for developers facing proprietary kernels and OSs that can substantially limit future architectural choices, driving up costs and reducing profits.

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Enabling better testing: Reprogrammable on-chip instrumentation

By Paul Bradley (DAFCA)
This extensive look underneath the hood at on-chip instrumentation shows how at-speed validation for SoCs can be greatly improved with the right visibility inside.

Portrait of a power miser: Open-architecture DSP core teams with a number-crunching accelerator for audio apps

By David Coode (ON Semiconductor)
Embedded DSP-based solutions are stepping to the plate for a squeeze play. Digital audio processing solutions must fit into less space and consume less power than ever.

Why 3U VPX has an edge over CompactPCI for FPGA/DSP military applications

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Making the case for a form factor that the mil-aero COTS community can rely on for high-speed fabric support

White Paper: Using the NAG Toolbox for MATLAB®

Numerical Algorithms Group
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) developed the first mathematical software library, now the largest commercially available collection of mathematical and statistical algorithms. Here you will find demonstrated how to call some popular NAG routines and how to use MATLAB's plotting facilities to view the results.

Green in: MIPS32 on FPGA, dam data distributed, G.hn gains ground

By Don Dingee
In our Deep Green Editor's Choice section, we look at technology helping design green into today's new products.

White Paper: ISE Design Suite 11.1: Creating the First User-Specific FPGA Design Environments

By Mark Goosman (Xilinx, Inc.)
Taking on the designer productivity, time to market, and results quality trifecta

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Designing SONAR systems for Harbor Surveillance

GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, Inc.
Designing SONAR systems for littoral and horbor environments poses unique challenges that depart from traditional blue-water applications.

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Reality: The new simulation frontier

By Rob Irwin (Altium Limited)
FPGAs allow designers to prototype systems without having to build the underlying hardware, bringing the flexibility of software to the creation of hardware.

Ensuring data security in logic non-volatile memory applications: Floating-gate versus oxide rupture

By Todd Humes (Virage Logic)
Since high-security and military applications require uncompromising data storage impervious to reverse-engineering techniques, a comparison of two types of memory is presented: Oxide rupture versus floating gate.

Everything you ever wanted to know about the cellular chip market - 2009

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
This article details market forecasts for virtually all cell phone integrated circuits, including digital basebands, RF transceivers and PAs, ap... (continues)

Cell phones: The next great software driver

By Chris Ciufo (Editor)
Operating system companies targeting cell phones and mobile internet devices provide software that'll drive the greater embedded market.

Quantifying the cost savings of using open source in software development

By Eran Strod (Black Duck Software)
Managing open source software

FMC modules deliver high-speed I/O from ADCs to FPGAs

By Mark Littlefield (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Overcoming the difficulty of designing an FPGA with I/O that suits a variety of applications.

Samsung rolls out fastest Cortex-A8 chip

By Will Strauss (Forward Concepts)
Could it be a contender? Will thinks yes with regard to Samsung's beefier 45nm low-leakage CMOS edition of its ARM Cortex-A8 implementation.

White Paper: Xilinx Tailors Four Tool Flows to Customer Design Disciplines in ISE Design Suite 11.1

By Michael Santarini (Xilinx, Inc.)
Different strokes for different folks: What to expect regarding the versatility of new tool flow solutions.

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Advanced power management: The next step in DSP board design

By Rob Hoyecki (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)
Filling an information gap when it comes to power use

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White Paper: New, Fast and Efficient DO-254 Verification Methodology

By Zbyszek Zalewski, General Manger of Hardware Products Division (Aldec, Inc.)
Achieve DO-254 compliant functional verification. Test designs at-speed in real hardware and reuse RTL test vectors with full visibility, traceability, and 100% coverage.

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White Paper: Bridge100 — A Powerful 100G Processing Platform

By Achronix Semiconductor (Achronix Semiconductor Corporation)
Bridge100 is a high-capacity, high-performance reconfigurable platform for networking and computing applications requiring 100 Gbps throughput.

COTS vendors speed FPGA development cycle

By John Wemekamp (Contributor)
FPGAs' complexity and inherent flexibility necessitate prequalified tools, IP components, and a coherent development framework to keep tight project control. Consequently, COTS vendors are rising to the challenge of developers' maturing expectations by continuously improving toolsets and product integration.

Adopting VITA 57 (FMC): Reducing FPGA I/O headaches

By Ron Huizen (BittWare)
No longer just a "sea of gates," FPGAs are now used in just about every type of application you can think of, giving COTS designers the ability to solve myriad problems by using the same board in various systems. The solution isn't always a simple one though, as FPGA I/O requirements vary from system to system. However, the VITA 57 (FMC) standard comes to the rescue with its unprecedented mechanical and electrical flexibility. Meanwhile, IP and interoperability are also vital considerations.

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White Paper: Critical Techniques for High Speed A/D Converters in Real-Time Systems

By Rodger Hosking (Pentek, Inc.)
Now in its 4th Edition, this handbook focuses primarily on A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz. Sampling techniques are reviewed, as well as FPGA technology and high-speed serial fabrics. The latest Pentek high-speed A/D products and applications based on such products are also presented.

Why that cornerstone for the NextGen building reads: “Deep Packet Inspection”

By Curt Schwaderer (Technology Editor)
Capitalizing on fast, programmable data plane components to tackle application-level processing.

 

Vendors and Products
 

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. CoreFire FPGA Development Tool Suite
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. 24 GSPS A/D CPD System
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR 4 for VME
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR 5  for IBM Blade
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Quad Fibre Channel 2 I/O
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR 5 for PCI Express with Xilinx Virtex 5
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR II Pro for VME
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR II Pro for PCI
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Universal 3Gbit IO
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR 5 for PCI Express
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Quad 16 Bit I/O
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Dual 1.5 GHz A/D Board
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. WILDSTAR 4 VXS
Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. Tri XFP I/O Card
GE Fanuc Intelligent Platforms, Inc. Tsunami PC104
Mercury Computer Systems, Inc. PowerStream 7000 FCN
3L Ltd Diamond FPGA
Hunt Engineering RTG002
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