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

by Bryon Moyer
November 17, 2009

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

by Bryon Moyer
November 17, 2009

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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Five Ways to Build Flexibility into Industrial Applications with FPGAs

by Bryon Moyer
November 17, 2009

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.


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The Power Management IC for the Intel® AtomTM Processor E6xx Series and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T

by Amelia Dalton
November 17, 2009

Time to market, cost, board size constraints, reliability and design capabilities are among the motivating factors in choosing Power Management IC versus a discrete solution. However, a discrete solution allows design optimization, offers higher power efficiency, flexibility and is easy to debug. Often, it is not possible to determine which choice will be better without understanding the details of design requirement.

This paper aims to discuss both the advantages and disadvantages of using Power … Read More → "The Power Management IC for the Intel® AtomTM Processor E6xx Series and Intel® Platform Controller Hub EG20T"

Hardware Accelerated H.264 Video Encoding using VAAPI on the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series

by Amelia Dalton
November 17, 2009

The Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series for the embedded devices market includes the POWERVR* VXE core that provides video encoding capabilities, allowing to encode high definition video streams in the highly compressed H.264 format with a very low main CPU utilization, releasing the general purpose processor for other parallel workloads. This processor feature is available to application developers by means of the open Video Acceleration API (VAAPI [1]). This … Read More → "Hardware Accelerated H.264 Video Encoding using VAAPI on the Intel® Atom™ Processor E6xx Series"

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