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Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G–100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare

November 17, 2009

With the tremendous success of commercial Internet and wireless technologies, the DoD has sought to implement a similarly interconnected infrastructure to enable NCOW information sharing and interoperability functions. The fragmented nature of the existing DoD IT infrastructure has measurable impacts on the pace of operations and the duplicative costs of redundant infrastructure.

Much as the current Internet integrates and connects multiple networks and data types,</ … Read More → "Fulfilling Technology Needs for 40G–100G Network-Centric Operations and Warfare"

High Performance Computing Using FPGAs

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

For over a quarter of a century, Xilinx® FPGAs continue to be the platform of choice for designing programmable systems. Due to their inherent flexibility, Xilinx FPGAs have been used in programmable solutions such as serving as a prototype vehicle as well as being a highly flexible alternative to application-specific integrated circuits.

Advancements in silicon, software, and IP have proven Xilinx FPGAs to be the ideal solution for accelerating applications on high-performance embedded … Read More → "High Performance Computing Using FPGAs"

5 Reasons to Put Your Processor on an FPGA

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

Did you know that soft-core FPGA processors provide unique benefits that you can’t achieve with commercial off-the-shelf systems?

Learn five reasons why you should put your processor on an FPGA.

Watch this 9-minute video to get more details on:

Design flexibility, with a customizable peripheral set
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Implementing Next-Generation Passive Optical Network Designs with FPGAs (REVISED)

by Jim Turley

November 17, 2009

FPGAs play a key role for early adopters of next-generation passive optical network (PON) systems due to their flexibility to allow development of future proof designs and implementation of unique features to differentiate against competitors versus standard products. Altera® Stratix® V FPGAs’ abundant resources, robust transceivers with native PON burst mode support, and fast external memory interfaces bring an unprecedented level of system integration. Altera further helps to lower system cost and power consumption via its seamless migration path from FPGAs to its HardCopy® series ASICs.

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A Flexible Solution for Industrial Ethernet

by Jim Turley

November 17, 2009

This white paper describes the use of Altera® FPGAs to deliver a multistandard Industrial Ethernet capability from a single PCB implementation. The benefits of FPGA implementation are described and an overview of the FPGA development flow, tools, and technology used to create a universal but easy-to-maintain solution is given.

Author: Stefano J. Zammattio, Product Manager, Altera Corporation

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Virtex-6 FPGA Routing Optimization Design Techniques

by Jim Turley

November 17, 2009

With the ever-increasing need for high bandwidth, system designers continue to increase resource utilization when designing with Virtex®-6 devices.

This can sometimes lead to routing challenges and congestion that can impact design closure. This white paper provides recommendations to help customers mitigate routing challenges in their Virtex-6 FPGA designs.

Xilinx continues to refine the place and route algorithms in … Read More → "Virtex-6 FPGA Routing Optimization Design Techniques"

Test Vehicle Demonstration Of Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technology

by Jim Turley

November 17, 2009

This video features a hardware setup of a test vehicle of stacked silicon interconnect technology. Liam Madden, VP of Silicon Technology at Xilinx explains…

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Stacked Silicon Interconnect Technology Implemented in ISE Design Suite

by Jim Turley

November 17, 2009

This video features stacked silicon interconnect technology and how it is implemented in the ISE design suite. Liam Madden, VP of Silicon Technology explains…

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Everything You Wanted to Know About SOC Memory*

* But Were Afraid to Ask

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

If you are a member of an SOC design team, or if you manage one, then memory is critically important to you. On today’s multicore SOC designs, more on-chip silicon is devoted to memory than to anything else on the chip and yet memory is often added as an afterthought. Don’t let that happen to your team.

This white paper discusses the many alternatives for on-chip and off-chip memory usage … Read More → "Everything You Wanted to Know About SOC Memory*"

Put Low-Power, Low-Overhead, High-Fidelity Digital Sound in Your Next ASIC or SOC

by Kevin Morris

November 17, 2009

Nearly all new ASIC and SOC designs incorporating digital audio employ some form of programmable DSP to run the audio codecs. General-purpose control processors can implement audio codecs with a sufficiently fast clock. However, they are not the most efficient engines for running audio codecs, and almost always use more energy to deliver real-time, multi-channel audio.

DSPs generally run audio codecs more efficiently than do general-purpose processors because they have features that accelerate the … Read More → "Put Low-Power, Low-Overhead, High-Fidelity Digital Sound in Your Next ASIC or SOC"