Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR) announced the availability of a broad range of JESD204B solutions designed to simplify the integration of Altera FPGAs and SoCs and high-speed data converters in systems using the latest JEDEC JESD204B standard. The interface standard is used across many applications, including radar, wireless radioheads, medical imaging equipment, software defined radios and […]
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Altera Brings FPGA-based Acceleration to IBM Power Systems
Altera Corporation (NASDAQ: ALTR) announced the latest release of the Altera SDK for OpenCL supports IBM Power Systems servers as an OpenCL system host. Customers are now able to develop OpenCL code that targets IBM Power Systems CPUs and accelerator boards with Altera FPGAs as a high-performance compute solution. FPGA accelerated systems can achieve a […]
USB Plug and Play Comes to the NI LabVIEW RIO Architecture
National Instruments (Nasdaq: NATI) announced four new R Series boards (USB-7855R, USB-7856R, USB-7855R OEM and USB-7856R OEM) with USB connectivity, which help engineers add FPGA technology to any PC-based system using one of the most widely adopted buses on the market. These products, based on the LabVIEW RIO architecture, are a result of the companys […]
System Builder Design Tool for ARM-based SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA Designs
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA users can now benefit from its newly released design tool, System Builder. System Builder is a powerful new design tool within the Libero System-on-Chip (SoC) Design Environment version 11.0 and is specifically targeted at accelerating user definition and implementation of ARM-based systems using SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs. The output from System Builder is […]
ARM Processor-based Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs
The Zynq-7000 All Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) offers Smarter Vision solutions for biomedical sensing and industrial applications. Biomedical Sensors – A biomedical sensing platform that uses a Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC to connect a compact display and small add-on card to the sensor. Motor/Motion Control – The Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC Intelligent Drives Platform. This platform […]
Altera Opens the world of FPGAs to software programmers
Availability of the SDK for OpenCL enables software programmers to access the high-performance capabilities of programmable logic devices. Altera announced a Preferred Board Partner Program, allowing third-party board vendors to work closely with Altera to design optimized production boards based on Altera’s programmable devices. The availability of supported third-party boards through the Preferred Board Partner […]
Sensor Extender Enables Longer Distances Between Image Sensor and ISP
The SensorExtender offers a low-cost approach to remotely locate image sensors up to eight meters away from the image signal processor (ISP) and transmit and receive video signals at resolutions that range up to 720p60 and 1080p30. The reference design uses inexpensive low-cost Cat5E cable to carry high-definition video and to send I2C sensor control […]
World’s Smallest FPGA for Miniature Systems
The iCE40 LP384 FPGA, is the smallest member of its expanding iCE40 family of ultra-low density FPGAs. Enabling designers to rapidly add new features and differentiate cost-sensitive, space-constrained, low-power products, the new small footprint FPGA is ideal for applications such as portable medical monitors, smartphones, digital cameras, eReaders, and compact embedded systems. The tiny, low […]
Metrics to consider when choosing a PAN or WAN interface for telehealth applications
Telehealth is becoming a new way of helping people achieve a better quality of life, but the proliferation of wireless technologies has also introduced a personal health and medical device interoperability challenge that has not been seen before. The challenge rests in the need to have several wirelessly equipped devices and end equipments communicate adequately […]
