Linear Technology announces the LTC6802®, a highly integrated multicell battery monitoring IC capable of measuring up to 12 individual battery cells. Using a novel stacking technique, multiple LTC6802s can be stacked in series without opto-couplers or isolators, allowing precision voltage monitoring of every cell in long strings of series connected batteries. … Read More → "High Voltage, Precision, Battery Stack Monitor"
Delivering unrivaled levels of system performance, flexibility, scalability, and integration to developers, Xilinx’s architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform is optimized for system power, cost, and size.
Based on ARM’s dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore processors and Xilinx’s 28 nm programmable logic, Read More → "Extensible Processing Platform Ideal Solution for a Wide Range of Embedded Systems"
In addition to the anticipated performance improvements commensurate with the production release of a Xilinx tool suite, the release of ISE v12 software unveils significant innovations with far-reaching potential. A new power-optimization capability called intelligent clock gating can reduce dynamic power by up to 30%. An innovation called … Read More → "Unlock New Levels of Productivity for Your Design Using ISE Design Suite 12"
The silicon DSP architecture of the FPGA can make a big difference when implementing complex signal-processing algorithms. Altera’s Stratix V FPGAs, with the variable-precision DSP block architecture, are the only programmable devices that efficiently support many different precision levels, including floating-point implementations. Also, with a 64-bit cascade bus and accumulator, the designer does not have to sacrifice precision when the algorithm implementation requires multiple DSP blocks.
Author: Suhel … Read More → "Enabling High-Precision DSP Applications with the FPGA Industry’s First Variable-Precision Architecture"
High-performance signal-processing designs increasingly require higher than 18-bit precision and even a range of precisions across the datapath. You’re probably seeing these requirements in traditional digital signal processing (DSP) functions such as finite impulse response (FIR) filters, fast Fourier transforms (FFTs), emerging matrix functions, and in custom signal-processing datapaths.
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< … Read More → "Enabling High-Precision, High-Performance DSP With Variable-Precision DSP Architecture"Before embarking on the development of a next-generation electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) system, it is important to not only understand the power and performance characteristics of the FPGA, but also the various functions developed both as IP and reference designs. Altera’s VIP Suite of MegaCore®functions provide sensor control and various image-processing capabilities, including buffering, scaling, filtering, and combining video streams … Read More → "Enabling Low-Power EO/IR System Development with FPGAs and Image- and Sensor-Processing IP"
Over 70% of designs on Altera® FPGAs require some type of external memory in the design, but the needs vary depending on the individual application. This white paper addresses all aspects of building external memory solutions with Altera FPGAs, including application needs, memory capabilities of Altera FPGAs, and device and IP selection. Also discussed is the modular style of the memory components, comprised of Altera’s controller and PHY offerings with circuit and calibration features.
Read More → "Boosting System Performance with External Memory Solutions"
Current market trends in video surveillance present a number of challenges to be addressed, including the move from analog to digital cameras, conversion to high-definition (HD) video, adoption of wide dynamic range (WDR) sensors, and Internet Protocol (IP) connectivity for control and data streams. This white paper describes the IP Surveillance Camera Reference Design and shows how the entire system is built using a low-cost Altera® Cyclone® III FPGA.
… Read More → "Building an IP Surveillance Camera System with a Low-Cost FPGA (REVISED)"Three new Xilinx product families leverage the unprecedented power, performance, and capacity enabled by TSMC’s 28 nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high performance,low power (HPL) process technology and the unparalleled scalability afforded by the FPGA industry’s first unified silicon architecture to provide a comprehensive platform base for next-generation systems.
Today, thanks in large part to … Read More → "Xilinx Redefines Power, Performance, and Design Productivity with Three New 28 nm FPGA Families:Virtex-7, Kintex-7, and Artix-7 Devices"
