Dream Stream: Getting around what would have been an arduous learning curve by using Simulink for streaming access to the Universal Software Radio Peripheral 2 (USRP2)
Philip Giordano, Analog Devices, Inc. —
One thing that many designers get wrong is designing a security system without first identifying and understanding real threats that are likely to be encountered and represent significant risk to their end products.
Andrew Dauman, Synopsysí Synplicity Business Group —
Assessing which ASIC tool technologies will prove useful to FPGA tool flows
David Trainor, Audio Processing Technology —
The promotion of “digital lifestyles” over recent years has significantly raised consumer expectations in relation to video definition and audio fidelity.
While a significant amount of time and effort has been dedicated to solving the run-time reconfiguration challenge in FPGAs, the resolution can come from two very different approaches.
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) vendors have begun adding advanced features to their products such as specialized out-of-band control and maintenance interfaces and embedded debugging features.
This article explores the considerations that make migrating legacy embedded code better or worse candidates for FPGA deployment.
Fortunately, modeling technologies such as the Unified Modeling Language (UML) help software engineers understand applications by clearly showing structure and behavior; unfortunately, many DSP developers believe that they cannot use UML to design their applications.
This article highlights the benefits of Acceleration Abstraction Layers and discusses how military systems designers can now leverage a new class of COTS board and accelerator modules to solve some of their most demanding tasks.
Many advanced surveillance, intelligence, and reconnaissance sensors support multimode operation to respond to unique situational demands, but these needs are outstripping ordinary CPU and DSP processor capabilities. As these systems must become more multimodal, flexible, and dynamically reconfigurable, the new Massively Parallel Processor Array (MPPA) is now stepping in to meet these challenges.
Dr. Malachy Devlin, Forasach —
The flexibility of the FPGA means it can be used to run a dynamically configurable measurement application that measures the effect of the ‘uncontrollable’ parameters.
David Pointer, SRC Computers —
An FPGA contributes to a reconfigurable system’s performance by allowing a programmer to explicitly and completely dedicate a device to the solution of the regular, uninterrupted streaming aspects of a program
Today’s real-time image processing hardware is feeling the pinch. Traditional reprogrammable devices are straining to keep pace across a range of automated inspection, security/surveillance, and professional video applications.
Voice over IP (VolP) has become a primary focus of attention because it lies at the heart of the trend toward the convergence of data and voice communications. This new technology offers great promise in the more efficient use of scarce bandwidth for ...
