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Energy-Aware Appliance Platform: A New Approach to Home Energy Control
By integrating Altia’s Design and DeepScreen GUI development tools suite, Echelon’s Power Line Smart Transceiver and ShortStack API, and the Altera Cyclone III FPGA and…
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Implementing a Cost-Effective Human-Machine Interface for Home Appliances
Traditionally, human-machine interfaces (HMIs) for home appliances have been composed of mechanical devices such as buttons and knobs, coupled with display indicators such as light-emitting…
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Enabling Design Separation for High-Reliability and Information-Assurance Systems
Traditionally, system designs achieve reliability through redundancy, leading to increased component count, logic size, system power, and cost. Altera’s design separation feature meets these conflicting…
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FPGAs at 40nm and >10 Gbps: Jitter-, Signal Integrity-, Power-, and Process-Optimized Transceivers (REVISED)
This paper describes key technologies that enable Stratix IV GT FPGAs to deliver the performance and capabilities necessary to support 40G/100G applications with integrated 11.3…
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Implementing a Multirate Uncompressed Video Interface for Broadcast Applications
The emergence of the high-definition (HD) 1080p video standard has presented some formidable design challenges for broadcast system engineers. While HD broadcasting now is established…
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Supporting Digital Television Trends with Next-Generation FPGAs
Question: What do the following items have in common? iPhones Avatar 3D (James Cameron’s new movie) Digital SLR cameras LCD digital televisions Answer: They are…
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FPGA Coprocessing Evolution: Sustained Performance Approaches Peak Performance
FPGA architecture allows for many algorithm implementations where the sustained performance is much closer to the device’s peak performance when compared to quad-core CPUs or…
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Automating DSP Simulation and Implementation of Military Sensor Systems
Military sensor-driven systems normally use FPGAs to interface with the ADCs that digitize sensor inputs. Because ADCs operate at rates of up to 3 MSPS,…
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Enabling Ethernet-Over-NG-SONET/SDH Solutions for MSPP Linecards
The combination of Altera’s Arria II GX family and TPACK’s 2.5-Gbps/10-Gbps Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH and 10-Gbps/20-Gbps switch/NPU solutions meet the requirements of next-generation MSPP linecards and maintain…