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FPGA, SDR and Data Acquisition News from KCL
A number of FPGA related products have recently been announced including C Libraries, SDR RF Transceivers, Altera Cyclone IV boards and 400Msample per second data capture card.


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PROCSparkIV - Cyclone IV PCIe x 4 computation accelerator |
The PROCSparkIV™ is targetted for low cost high volume applications. If offers high performance PCIe x 4 lanes interface with Cyclone IV 40 or115, 512MB DDR II on board and 4GB DDR II on SODIMM as well as optional PSDB daughter boards as standard in all GiDEL platform.
The ProcSparkIV™ system is an FPGA-based
platform founded on Altera’s next-generation
Cyclone IV devices. Powerful FPGA devices
conjoined with GiDEL’s innovative architecture
and IPs, at an unprecedented cost-performance,
makes the ProcSparkIV ideal for OEM production
requirements. The board’s unique architecture is
comprised of large multi-level memories, flexible
and massive connectivity and a variety of daughter
board interface possibilities (SDI, DVI, Camera
Link, HDMI, user proprietary, etc.) enabling the
user to build complex designs and seamlessly
integrate with peripheral I/Os. Abundant memory
(512MB on-board + 4GB SODIMM) coupled with
fast 4-Lane PCIe connection enable strong coprocessing
between a standard PC operating system
and the FPGA acceleration.
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X6-400M - Virtex 4 XMC module with 2x400 MSPS ADCs and DACs |
The X6-400M provides dual 400MSPS, 14-bit ADCs and 500 MSPS 16-bit DACs combined with the latest Virtex 6 FPGA and 6GB DRAM on an XMC module for high end SDR, RADAR and medical imaging. Complete chassis embedded PC solutions and XMC carriers are also available to support PCI-Express 64-bit PCI and Compact PCI based systems.
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RADIO420X - Multi-mode SDR RF Transceiver, 300MHz to 3GHz |
The Radio420X FPGA mezzanine card
(FMC) is a powerful multimode SDR RF
transceiver module designed around the
state-of-the-art, multistandard, multiband
Lime Microsystems LMS6002D
RF transceiver IC, which supports
broadband coverage, as well as TDD and
FDD full duplex modes of operation.
The product provides SISO, dual band and 2x2 MIMO RF Transceiver for RF frequencies between 300MHz and 3GHz with selectable bandwidths between 1.5 and 28MHz.
The Radio420X is also completely integrated to the Lyrtech
μTCA Perseus AMCs, but it can as easily be used on any
FMC carrier on the market. It is compatible with low-pincount
(one RF transceiver) RADIO420S and high-pin-count (two RF
transceivers) FMC interfaces RADIO420M. |
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Impulse C FPGA Image Processing Library |
The Impulse C™ Image Processing Library accelerates your image
processing development and reduces project risk. Library components
are provided with standard C-language function prototypes allowing
them to be easily connected together, and combined with other C
code, to create complex image processing systems. These C-callable
functions and C-language processes represent optimized image
processing filters that are instantiated, through the use of synthesis
and place-and-route tools, in the target FPGA. |
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Impulse C FPGA Fast Fourier Transfer (FFT) reference design |
The Impulse Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) reference design uses two
Radix 4 butterflies, pipelining and special indexing for eight way
memory bank access to double the throughput over a simpler single
Radix 4 algorithm. You can use this starter code and add elements of
your own processing logic, in-line, in the actual transform. This
can speed up your scaling process and equip you to try multiple
iterations involving coefficient changes and in determining optimal
configurations much more quickly. The example also allows you to
customize the module and optimize data or coefficient sizes to
control for precision or resource usage. Finally, you can change the
datapath to efficiently implement functionality and create real
FFTs, 2-dimensional FFTs or perform autocorrelation. Impulse software users report they can iterate programming cycles 80%
faster as compared to Verilog.
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