1300mW per Antenna Remote Radio Head Solution with LatticeECP3-150 FPGA
Lattice Semiconductor and Affarii Technologies teamed together to create a Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution at 1300mW per antenna. The integration of all RRH processing has been achieved on a single LatticeECP3-150 FPGA device. The single chip solution supports 2×2 MIMO configurations for WCDMA, LTE and WiMAX applications and is part of an overall RRH [...]
Altera High Definition WDR Video Surveillance Camera Reference Design
Altera introduced a high-definition (HD), intellectual property (IP) reference design for surveillance cameras on a single FPGA. The reference design features Altera’s Cyclone III or Cyclone IV FPGAs and IP from Eyelytics and Apical supporting AltaSens’ 1080p60 A3372E3-4T and Aptina’s 720p60 MT9M033 HD Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) CMOS image sensors. The solution reduces board space, [...]
Actel Mixed Signal Power Manager Solution for SmartFusion FPGA
Actel introduced their Mixed Signal Power Manager (MPM) Solution for the SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. The power management solution includes a complete reference design with graphical configurator to enter power sequencing and trimming requirements. The design is targeted to the MPM Daughter Card, which can be used with either the SmartFusion Evaluation Kit or [...]
Xilinx Spartan-6 PCIe I/O Reference Design
Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas introduced the Xilinx Spartan-6 FPGA PCIe I/O Reference Design for embedded applications. The reference design includes a complete set of software drivers connecting Kontron’s nanoETXexpress-SP module (features the Intel Atom Z510 processor, 1.1 GHz) with the Xilinx Spartan-6 SP605 development board via the PCI Express bus. The evaluation carrier board also [...]
LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit and Reference Designs
Lattice Semiconductor introduced the LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit and 28 new silicon-proven reference designs for developing high volume, cost sensitive, high density applications. The LatticeXP2 Brevia Development Kit features the LatticeXP2 LFXP2-5E-6TN144C device, 2Mb SPI Flash and 1Mb SRAM memory, expansion headers and several LEDs and user switches. Promotional pricing for the LatticeXP2 Brevia Development [...]
Eutecus Bi-i V401X-FP5500 Fusion Analytics Module Reference Design
Eutecus introduced the Bi-i V401X-FP5500 Fusion-Analytics Module Reference Design. The Eutecus’ Multi-core Video Analytics Engine (MVE) is implemented on a single low-cost FPGA — the Spartan 3A DSP. The Bi-i V401X-FP5500 is ideal for image processing applications in the military, aerospace and homeland security. The video analytics is performed in real time on a fused [...]
Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform for Embedded Systems
Xilinx announced the architecture for a new Extensible Processing Platform for embedded systems. The ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore processor-based platform enables system architects and embedded software developers to apply a combination of serial and parallel processing for embedded systems to perform complex functions. Xilinx’s new architecture abstracts much of the hardware burden away from the embedded [...]
Module Management Controller Board Management Reference Starter Kit
Pigeon Point Systems (PPS) introduced a Module Management Controller (MMC) Board Management Reference (BMR) Starter Kit for AdvancedMC (AMC) modules, which are used in both AdvancedTCA (ATCA) carriers and MicroTCA (uTCA) shelves, collectively referenced as xTCA. The MMC BMR Starter Kit is based on Actel’s SmartFusion intelligent mixed signal FPGAs. SmartFusion devices integrate an FPGA, [...]
Altera and Apical Video Surveillance Camera Reference Design
Altera and Apical introduced the first high-definition wide dynamic range (WDR) CMOS image-sensor-processing solution for video-surveillance cameras. Altera and Apical’s reference design delivers excellent video-image quality regardless of varying lighting conditions, a major stumbling block for previous generations of surveillance cameras. The HD WDR CMOS image sensor features Altera’s Cyclone III and Cyclone IV FPGAs, [...]
3G, 4G Remote Radio Head Solution by Lattice Semiconductor, Affarii
Lattice Semiconductor and Affarii Technologies have developed a complete 3G/4G-based Remote Radio Head (RRH) solution for wireless infrastructure designers. This is the first time a full RRH solution has been made available using low power, low cost FPGAs that enables low power RRHs to be deployed without sacrificing flexibility or performance. The RRH solution is [...]
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