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Platform Manager Overview

November 17, 2009

Platform Manager simplifies board management design significantly by integrating programmable analog and logic to support many common functions, such as power management, digital housekeeping and glue logic. By integrating these support functions, Platform Manager devices not only reduce the cost of these functions compared to traditional approaches, but also improve system reliability and provide a high degree of design flexibility that minimizes the risk of circuit board re-spins.

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ispMACH 4000ZE for Consumer Electronics

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

This video addresses the special needs of the consumer electronics designer who requires low price, low power, and small package PLDs. Lattice recommends the ispMACH 4000ZE CPLD family meet the demands of battery operated and space constrained designs.

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FPGA Power Management and Modeling Techniques

by Bryon Moyer

November 17, 2009

This white paper discusses the major challenges associated with accurately predicting power consumption in FPGAs, namely, obtaining accurate signal activities, static power modeling, and dynamic power modeling, as well as how Altera addresses these challenges through the PowerPlay early power estimator and the Quartus® II PowerPlay power analyzer. This paper also presents the accuracy of the model by comparing predicted power consumption with actual silicon measurements using an extensive suite of real-world customer designs. Using these best-in-class power analysis tools, a designer can … Read More → "FPGA Power Management and Modeling Techniques"

FPGA Design Methods for Fast Turnaround (REVISED)

by Bryon Moyer

November 17, 2009

This paper takes an in depth look at a variety of techniques to help you speed up your synthesis iterations. Whether the goal is aggressive performance or to get a working initial design or prototype on the board as quickly as possible, this paper provides information on traditional and new techniques that accelerate design and debug iterations.

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Applying the Benefits of Network on a Chip Architecture to FPGA System Design

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

NoC interconnect architectures provide a number of significant advantages over traditional, non-NoC interconnects, such as allowing independent layer design and optimization. Altera’s Qsys system integration tool, included with the Quartus® II software, generates a flexible FPGA-optimized NoC implementation automatically, based on the requirements of the application.

Author: Kent Orthner, Sr. Manager, Software & IP, Altera Corporation

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High-Efficiency DC/DC Converter Reference Design for LM3S MCUs

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

This document helps the user create a design-in a Stellaris® ARM® Cortex™-M3 MCU into a system requiring a wide-input voltage range and is concerned about maintaining high efficiency and long battery life.

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Power Management for Altera® Cyclone® FPGAs

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

TI’s DC/DC converter solutions best support the power requirements for the Cyclone family, providing costeffective, high-performance and board space minimized power solutions.

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Power for Xilinx Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 Guide

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

Power management solutions for the new Xilinx® Virtex®-6 FPGA ML605 evaluation kit. Download this user guide to view recommended power management products to support Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 designs.

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Get to Work in 10 Minutes

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

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

by Amelia Dalton

November 17, 2009

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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