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Get to Work in 10 Minutes

Complete kits, popular software, and meaningful examples speed the evaluation and development of Stellaris 32-bit Microcontrollers for real applications.

Author:  Jean Ann Booth, Director of WW Stellaris Marketing and Customer-Facing Engineering, Texas Instruments

Sue Cozart, Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments

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AM1810 ARM Microprocessor For PROFIBUS

AM1810 is a Low-power industrial applications processor based on ARM926EJ-S™ that is specifically targeted for Profibus applications.

The device enables OEMs and ODMs to quickly bring to market devices featuring robust operating systems support, rich user interfaces, and high processing performance life through the maximum flexibility of a fully integrated mixed processor solution.

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MSP430x5xx/MSP430x6xx Family

Meet TI’s latest addition to the embedded systems microcontroller portfolio — the MSP430F5xx generation of microcontrollers. These ultra-low-power devices will provide designers with enhanced performance and increased design options with new and innovative peripherals on chips, which have more memory and integrated capabilities, while using less power than ever before. 

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Modeling System Signal Integrity Uncertainty Considerations

This white paper describes signal integrity mechanisms that cause system-level timing uncertainty and how these mechanisms are modeled in the Quartus II TimeQuest Timing Analyzer for timing closure for external memory interface designs. By using the Quartus II development software v.9.1 and later to achieve timing closure for external memory interfaces, a designer does not need to allocate a separate SI timing budget to account for simultaneous switching output, simultaneous switching input, intersymbol interference, and board-level crosstalk for Altera flip-chip device families such as Stratix IV and Arria … Read More → "Modeling System Signal Integrity Uncertainty Considerations"

3 Ways to Quickly Adapt to Changing Ethernet Protocols

Can you quickly adapt your designs to changing Industrial Ethernet protocols? Are you meeting growing performance needs? Watch this video to see how the Industrial Networking Kit and flexible, low-power FPGAs can help you meet these challenges in embedded industrial applications.

In this 10-minute video, you’ll discover three ways to quickly adapt to evolving Ethernet protocols:

3 Reasons to Use FPGAs in Industrial Applications

Gone are the days when FPGAs were used for glue logic or simple I/O expansion. Today’s industrial applications are reaping benefits with FPGAs integrated into the designs as coprocessors or even system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions.

Watch this 18-minute webcast to learn three reasons why Altera® FPGAs are beneficial in industrial designs:

Introducing the Avnet TI OMAP/Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing Kit

FPGA-based co-processing is 15X faster than traditional processor/DSP systems. Conventional system design methods face stiff challenges to meet the requirements of today’s ultra-high performance applications. This video explains how the TI OMAP/Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing Kit delivers breakthrough system performance by integrating and optimizing the key strengths of high performance FPGAs, system control processing, and digital signal processing, all within one single environment.

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Enabling FPGA Plug-and-Play Design with the AXI-4 Common Interconnect

This video offers details of Xilinx support for the AXI-4 Common Interconnect and highlights the benefits of increased designer productivity, greater IP availability, and extended flexibility to achieve performance and system goals. Using the Xilinx Targeted Design Platforms to illustrate these benefits, Xilinx technical experts describe how support for the AXI-4 Common Interconnect is the cornerstone for the move to FPGA Plug-and-Play design.

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