On Demand Content
Targeting and Retargeting Guide for Spartan-6 FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)
When targeting or retargeting code from a prior design, some considerations should be made to achieve a quicker and more optimal design when selecting a Spartan®-6 FPGA. This white paper identifies and details the appropriate targeting guidelines and other considerations needed to achieve an improved result for these devices.
Sponsored by: Xilinx
Xilinx FPGA Embedded Memory Advantages (WHITE PAPER)
The Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 architectures feature flexible internal memory resources that can be configured in a variety of different sizes. This white paper details the available features, illustrating the wide array of memory sizes available and shows the trade-off of using different resources to perform memory functions of different sizes.
Sponsored by: Xilinx
Improving Performance in Spartan-6 FPGA Designs (WHITE PAPER)
Several considerations need to be taken into account to improve the performance of Spartan-6 FPGA designs. This white paper discusses how synthesis and implementation can help to optimize design performance.
Sponsored by: Xilinx
Actel SmartFusion: Intelligent, Innovative Integration (WHITE PAPER)
Actel SmartFusion™ Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs – Innovative, Intelligent, Integration. Introducing the only device that integrates a flash FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analog into a complete, integrated solution. Don’t compromise your embedded design. Build the system you want, with all the features you need, on a single-chip solution. Read the White Paper to learn more.
Sponsored by: Actel
Developing Functional Safety Systems with TÜV-Qualified FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)
Market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA design methodology is changing the paradigms of safety designs and will greatly reduce development effort, system complexity, and time to market. This allows FPGA users to design their own customized safety controllers and provides a significant competitive advantage over traditional microcontroller or ASIC-based designs.
Sponsored by: Altera
Lowering The Total Cost of Ownership for Industrial Applications (WHITE PAPER)
Approximately one-third of embedded designers surveyed on the adoption and use of FPGAs for embedded applications responded that they perceived FPGAs as too expensive to use in their designs. However, a look at the total cost of ownership (TCO) at the system level (as measured by development, enhancement, replacement, and maintenance costs over the lifetime of the product) reveals that Altera FPGAs offer competitive and flexible alternatives to discrete MCU/DSP/ASSP products.
Sponsored by: Altera
Simplify Video Processing with IP Cores and Low-Power FPGAs (VIDEO)
Need to get your video processing systems up and running faster? Developing these applications typically requires implementing and connecting several complex functions. Watch this 5-minute video to learn about pre-verified, configurable building blocks that simplify and accelerate the process for building a complex video chain.
Sponsored by: Altera
FPGA Coprocessing Evolution: Sustained Performance Approaches Peak Performance (WHITE PAPER)
FPGA architecture allows for many algorithm implementations where the sustained performance is much closer to the device’s peak performance when compared to quad-core CPUs or GPGPUs. The strong benchmarking results from FPGA accelerators will continue to improve with appropriate focus on the silicon, arithmetic, and library foundations. As even the largest FPGAs currently consume less than 30W of power, FPGA roadmaps are well below datacenter power and cooling limitations.
Sponsored by: Altera
Enabling Ethernet-Over-NG-SONET/SDH Solutions for MSPP Linecards (WHITEPAPER)
The combination of Altera’s Arria II GX family and TPACK’s 2.5-Gbps/10-Gbps Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH and 10-Gbps/20-Gbps switch/NPU solutions meet the requirements of next-generation MSPP linecards and maintain existing infrastructure. Like ASSPs, FPGAs are based on the traditional manufacturing process, either in-house or via commercial foundries, but due to their broader and more generic application, the production volume that FPGAs attain justifies investment in the latest manufacturing processes and technology.
Sponsored by: Altera
Automating DSP Simulation and Implementation of Military Sensor Systems (WHITE PAPER)
Military sensor-driven systems normally use FPGAs to interface with the ADCs that digitize sensor inputs. Because ADCs operate at rates of up to 3 MSPS, they require very high-performance DSP circuitry. In most cases, this functionality is implemented using FPGAs optimized for DSP applications.
Sponsored by: Altera
Generating Panoramic Views by Stitching Multiple Fisheye Images (WHITEPAPER)
This white paper discusses an innovative architecture developed by Altera and Manipal Dot Net to generate panoramic views by stitching multiple fisheye images on an FPGA. This architecture provides a complete view of a vehicle’s surroundings to the driver and makes it easier to control and navigate the vehicle.s.
Sponsored by: Altera
Support Multiple Industrial Ethernet Protocols With a Single FPGA (VIDEO)
Need to support multiple Industrial Ethernet protocols in your factory or process automation system? This 10-minute video features three demos integrating motor control and Industrial Ethernet into a single FPGA. You'll learn how you can easily change protocols on the same FPGA platform and add any Industrial Ethernet communication to existing industrial equipment.
Sponsored by: Altera
FPGA Reliability and the Sunspot Cycle (WHITE PAPER)
What if your design had to go close to the sun? Would you be comfortable? Engineers design for system-level reliability when creating complex electronic systems. System reliability is dependent on a number of factors, including the reliability of the individual semiconductor devices selected for each design. Radiation effects impact device reliability in terrestrial as well as space applications. By choosing FPGA components judiciously, designers can significantly enhance the operational reliability and stability of any system.
Sponsored by: Actel
Mixed-Signal Power Manager (MPM) (WEBCAST)
Actel's Mixed-signal Power Manager (MPM) enables designers to control and reduce power at the system level, offering fully-verified, timing-closed, proven-in-hardware power supervision and management capabilities, while utilizing Actel Fusion mixed-signal FPGA. Watch the short webcast to learn more.
Sponsored by: Actel
Mixed-Signal Power Management: Bridging the Analog-Digital Divide with Mixed-Signal FPGA Graphical Design Configuration Methodology (WHITE PAPER)
The management of power at the system level is a challenge faced by all system designers, but designers face a daunting divide between digital and analog when considering tools, practices, and methodologies. A new methodology developed by Actel, implemented in a new design tool, addresses the challenges, and eliminates barriers to delivering user-configurable mixed-signal power management without the need to reprogram circuit design changes to implement configuration changes.
Sponsored by: Actel