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Signal processing FPGAs with hard floating-point - No compromise - Story
June 02, 2015
Since the dissolution of cutting-edge digital signal processor (DSP) product lines designers have been forced to develop using either FPGAs integrated with time-consuming fixed-point DSP blocks, or floating-point general-purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) that leave performance on the table in high-end signal processing systems. But now, with the release of Altera’s Generation 10 FPGAs that integrate hardened IEEE 754-compliant floating-point operators, why compromise?
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Digital channelizer implemented on COTS FPGA board: A flexible solution for military signal processing - Story
January 29, 2014
One of the major challenges of modern military Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is dealing with the ever-widening bandwidth of digitized signals. Until fairly recently, analog-to-digital converters (A/D converters) were limited to only hundreds of MHz, so anything beyond that had to be dealt with using traditional RF/analog methodologies. Now that A/D converters are available in the GHz range, much wider band processing is moving to the digital domain.
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Coprocessor solution improves FPGA efficiency - Product
February 10, 2013
Dubbed “Anemone acceleration technology,” a coprocessor floating-point signal processing solution from BittWare in Concord, NH, mitigates FPGA programming challenges by offloading C-language processing tasks from an FPGA. The FPGA handles all the I/O interfacing, memory, protoc...
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Floating-point coprocessors enable FPGAs to replace DSPs - Story
June 01, 2012
A coprocessor can greatly improve the productivity and algorithmic flexibility of an FPGA, thereby enabling it to handle a larger part of a signal processing implementation.
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Adopting VITA 57 (FMC): Reducing FPGA I/O headaches - Story
August 14, 2009
No longer just a "sea of gates," FPGAs are now used in just about every type of application you can think of, giving COTS designers the ability to solve myriad problems by using the same board in various systems. The solution isn't always a simple one though, as FPGA I/O requirements vary from system to system. However, the VITA 57 (FMC) standard comes to the rescue with its unprecedented mechanical and electrical flexibility. Meanwhile, IP and interoperability are also vital considerations.
