ARM® developers looking to enhance their applications on Texas Instrument’s heterogeneous multicore embedded processors can utilize the new C6Run open-source development tool.
Author: Daniel Allred, Applications Engineer, Texas Instruments
… Read More → "C6Run DSP Software Development Tool"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.
… Read More → "MSP430x5xx/MSP430x6xx Family"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"
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:
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:
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.
… Read More → "Introducing the Avnet TI OMAP/Spartan-6 FPGA Co-Processing Kit"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.
… Read More → "Enabling FPGA Plug-and-Play Design with the AXI-4 Common Interconnect"As industrial system complexity increases, FPGAs offer the ability to integrate an entire system on a chip (SoC), at a lower cost compared to discrete MCU, DSP, ASSP, or ASIC solutions. This document describes using an Altera industrial-grade FPGA as a coprocessor or SoC to bring flexibility to industrial applications. Providing a single, highly integrated platform for multiple industrial products, Altera FPGAs can substantially reduce development time and risk.
Read More → "Five Ways to Build Flexibility into Industrial Applications with FPGAs"
Sr. Defense Architect Jim Anderson shows how Xilinx defense-grade Virtex FPGAs enable the highest level of information assurance with Type-1 Single-chip Cryptography in a UAV application.
Jim Anderson, Sr. Defense Architect, Xilinx
… Read More → "UAV-to-Basestation Encryption"Liam Madden, Vice President of Silicon Technology takes you through the characterization lab at Xilinx discussing 28nm technology.
