On Demand Content
Virtex-6HXT Lab Demo (VIDEO)
This video shows a quick lab demo of the Virtex-6HXT, the industry's highest bandwidth FPGA, featuring 24GTH transceivers (11+Gb/s) AND GTX transceivers (6.6Gb/s) for a total of 72 Transceivers. This FPGA combines the world's highest performance FPGA fabric with the world's highest performance serial transceivers, sampling now! Please subscribe and stay tuned for future demos of our superior performance and exclusive compliance to a variety of optical specs.
Sponsored by: Xilinx
Simpler, Smarter Platform for Differentiated Digital TVs (VIDEO)
The Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video kit provides a simpler way to update and modify video algorithms, and incorporate new video standards such as DisplayPort and V-by-One-HS. The advanced integrated design environment allows designers to efficiently develop and test high speed serial interfaces like LVDS and TMDS and debug HDMI or DVI-based solutions. The Spartan-6 FPGA Consumer Video Kit offers everything designers need to implement features for today and tomorrow's market. Watch this short video to learn more.
Sponsored by: Xilinx
Single-Event Effect Mitigation in RTAX-DSP Space-Flight FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)
When high-energy ions present in space strike the substrate of an IC, their impact can cause momentary current/voltage pulses in the IC’s circuitry. When these pulses are sufficient to change the data on the circuit, they are referred to collectively as single-event effects (SEEs).
Sponsored by: Actel
Guaranteeing Silicon Performance with FPGA Timing Models (WHITE PAPER)
Altera® timing models provide a simple and easy way to verify the timing of FPGA designs without the need to perform full physical electrical extractions and simulations. The three different operating corners available for 65-nm and newer FPGAs provide a thorough coverage of the time delays within the recommended operating conditions.
Sponsored by: Altera
Providing Battery-Free, FPGA-Based RAID Cache Solutions (WHITE PAPER)
RAID adapter cards are critical data-center subsystem components that ensure data storage and recovery during power outages. Battery-backed designs have hazardous waste disposal, shelf life, and maintenance issues, but recent advances in FPGA and flash-memory technologies support lower power memory backup designs that are powered by ultra capacitors. This paper provides an overview of the supporting component technologies that support such environmentally-friendly data recovery solutions.
Sponsored by: Altera
Accelerate Your Video Processing Application Using Reference Designs (VIDEO)
Wouldn´t you like an integrated solution that makes developing broadcast infrastructure equipment easier and faster? Watch this new 9-minute video to learn about two development kits and reference designs that do just this.
Sponsored by: Altera
Board Design Guidelines for LVDS Systems (WHITE PAPER)
This white paper explains PCB layout guidelines for designing LVDS boards using Altera FPGAs. LVDS is a high-speed, low-voltage, low-power, and low-noise general-purpose I/O interface standard. The low-voltage swing and differential current mode outputs significantly reduce EMI and have fast edge rates that cause signal paths to act as transmission lines. Therefore, ultra-high-speed board design and differential signal theory knowledge is especially useful for designing an FPGA-based LVDS board.
Sponsored by: Altera
Enhancing Robust SEU Mitigation with 28-nm FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)
Systems designed with FPGAs benefit from significant improvements over ASICS, which permit the use of FPGAs in high-availability, high-reliability, and safety-critical systems, but also have increased susceptibility to soft errors that previously could be ignored. These soft errors, caused by SEUs, are nondestructive and can be corrected without system downtime. The SEU mitigation enhancements developed for Altera Stratix V FPGAs provide a strong roadmap to address soft-error system challenges.
Sponsored by: Altera
Designing with SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs (VIDEO)
Watch this short video introducing the software tools and design flows for implementing SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal flash FPGA designs, including devices, hardware kits and ecosystem to get you started.
Sponsored by: Actel
Intelligent Power Management with SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGA (WEBCAST)
The Mixed Signal Power Manager (MPM) reference design delivers flexible power management configured using the standalone MPM PC GUI tool to bear on power sequencing and management.
Sponsored by: Actel
SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs in Motor Control Applications (VIDEO)
This video provides an exploration of Motor Control applications using Actel's SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal flash FPGAs for field-oriented closed-loop motor control for brushless DC (PMSM) motors, with a closer look at your challenges and a look into the Actel motor control development kit currently in development.
Sponsored by: Actel
Reducing Power and Cost of 6G Transceiver-Based Applications (WEBCAST)
Need to strike the right balance between FPGA density, transceiver speed, cost, and power? Altera has enhanced its Arria® II FPGAs, giving you more cost-optimized, low- power options to meet your 6G transceiver-based application requirements.The Arria II GX FPGA now has 6.375 transceivers. And a new Arria II GZ device also provides 6.375-Gbps transceivers, along with more density, memory, and digital signal processing (DSP) capabilities.
Sponsored by: Altera
FPGA Design Flow and Development Tools (VIDEO)
Learn about the Actel tools that are available for creating your FPGA design, whether it be for the ultra low power IGOO®, high performance ProASIC®3, mixed signal Fusion, or Actel's new SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal flash FPGA with hard embedded ARM® Cortex™-M3 microcontroller subsystem.
Sponsored by: Actel
Medical Imaging Implementation Using FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)
Medical imaging equipment is taking on an increasingly critical role in healthcare as the industry strives to lower patient costs and achieve earlier disease prediction using noninvasive means. To provide the functionality needed to meet these industry goals, equipment developers are turning to programmable logic devices such as Altera’s FPGAs.
Sponsored by: Altera
Introduction to SmartFusion Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs (VIDEO)
This short video gives an overview of the SmartFusion™ intelligent mixed signal FPGAs introduced, including the microcontroller subsystem (MSS), analog compute engine (ACE) and FPGA.
Sponsored by: Actel