Summary:
FPGA and ASIC design complexity is becoming an issue for many safety-critical industries. What was once a discrete component is now merely a block in a bigger system, but all within a single chip. Each block has its own ... [read more]

White Paper

White Paper: FPGAs Replace Legacy VME

Staff (Acromag, Inc.)

Summary:
FPGAs Replace Legacy VME

VME and Critical SystemsJune 2007

FPGAs: Are they really worth it?

Rodger Hosking (Pentek, Inc.)

Summary:
As the popularity of FPGAs continues to grow, understanding the shifting trends in navigating FPGA hardware and software development is vital.

VME and Critical SystemsJune 2007

I never said the SHARC was better than the PowerPC, But FPGAs enable hybrid DSP architectures best

Jeff Milrod (Bittware)

Summary:
An interview with Jeff Milrod, president and CEO of BittWare, Inc. Topics include hybrid signal processing, the Cell BE processor, market trends, and VME's future.

VME and Critical SystemsApril 2007

The right stuff: FPGAs fit EW and ISR system needs

Dave Barker (VMETRO, Inc.)

Summary:
Electronic Warfare (EW) and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications must reach increasingly tight Size, Weight, and Power (SWAP) budgets while achieving escalating performance demands. FPGAs are... [read more]

VME and Critical SystemsApril 2007

Integrating FPGAs and switched fabrics for application acceleration

Mark Littlefield (Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing)

Summary:
Many military applications are living proof of Moore's Law, as computational requirements continue to climb faster than processor performance increases. Now FPGAs are coming to the rescue and meeting Size, Weight, and Po... [read more]

VMEbus SystemsDecember 2006

Solving the obsolescence puzzle

Philip Grunow (GD California)

Summary:
The author elucidates on how a "sunset" supplier and other technology companies collaborated to substitute an obsolete ASIC with a newly designed FPGA in a respun VME board.

VMEbus SystemsAugust 2006

The Xilinx high-performance DSP roadmap

David Squires (Xilinx)

Summary:
Xilinx's DSP/FPGA history and technology growth.

VMEbus SystemsJune 2006

Implementing FPGA clusters and mesh architectures

Bob Walsh (TEK Microsystems)

Summary:
Many signal processing experts agree: FPGAs, with their inherent parallel processing architectures and high-speed off-chip serial interconnects, make ideal DSP engines when coupled into mesh architectures and installed o... [read more]

VMEbus SystemsJune 2005

FPGAs are the best choice to ride the PCI Express wave

Abhijit Athavale (Xilinx)

Summary:
As the desktop and embedded worlds move beyond PCI and PCI-X to PCI Express, FPGAs can bridge between legacy buses and PCI Express. Additionally, since FPGAs are flexible enough to realize all kinds of logic elements ñ i... [read more]

VMEbus SystemsDecember 2004

Cognitive radio: An evolution from software radio

Angsuman Rudra (Interactive Circuits and Systems Ltd.)

Summary:
This article describes how high speed FPGAs may be used to implement functionality that would enable practical implementation of a basic cognitive radio using todayís software radio technology.

White Paper

White Paper: DSP on FPGAS

Jane Donaldson (Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc.)

Summary:
This article describes the implementation of a common DSP application, Spectrum Analysis, on the COTS WILDSTAR II for VME FPGA-based processing board with a 1.5 GHz A/D I/O card, using the CoreFire FPGA Design Suite.

VMEbus SystemsOctober 2001

Working with embedded FPGAs

Theodore Vaida (LSI Logic Corp.)

Summary:
This article is intended for ASIC design engineers making the transition to the mixed ASIC/FPGA environment. It is based on the use of Hardware Description Languages (HDL) such as Verilog for developing the design.

VMEbus SystemsAugust 2001

Design and implementation of high-performance FPGA signal processing datapaths for software-defined radios

Chris H. Dick (Xilinx, Inc.)

Summary:
This article describes how some of the functions required in a software radio system can be realized in an FPGA. It discusses adaptive channel equalizers and channelization functions. Channel equalization is one of the... [read more]

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