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Developing Functional Safety Systems with TÜV-Qualified FPGAs
Market trends, the need for increased productivity, and new legislation have accelerated the use of safety systems in industrial machinery. This TÜV-qualified FPGA design methodology…
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Lowering The Total Cost of Ownership for Industrial Applications
Approximately one-third of embedded designers surveyed on the adoption and use of FPGAs for embedded applications responded that they perceived FPGAs as too expensive to…
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Achieving 25 Gbps Transceiver Performance on 28nm FPGAs
Need high bandwidth for your next-generation design? Watch our 9-minute video to see 25 Gbps transceiver performance on a 28nm device. You will: See a…
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Next Generation System Design – Platforms versus Tool-Chains
This paper will enumerate the benefits of a platform-based system design approach. The original electronic design process built by linking tools together has remained largely…
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Enabling Improved Image Format Conversion with FPGAs
To support the accelerating image format conversion to FPGAs, Altera has developed a 1080p video design framework, described in this white paper, that makes it…
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Streaming Multichannel Uncompressed Video in the Broadcast Environment
Designing video equipment for streaming multiple uncompressed video signals is a new challenge, especially with the demand for high-definition video streams. This white paper examines…
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Reduce Total System Cost in Portable Applications Using MAX II CPLDs
Traditionally, portable system designers have used ASICs and ASSPs to implement memory interfaces, I/O expansion, power-on sequencing, discrete logic functions, display, and other functions. Cost…
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Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Ethernet Kit
Xilinx® brings high-speed connectivity and real-time processing performance to the factory floor with the new Spartan-6 FPGA Industrial Automation Targeted Design Platform and Spartan®-6 FPGA…
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16-bit Performance for an 8-bit Price: TI’s MSP430 Microcontroller Value Line (PRODUCT BULLETIN)
TI’s new Ultra-Low Power MSP430™ microcontroller Value Line starts at 25 cents* to give 8-bit developers up to 10X performance and 10X battery life. The ultra-low…
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Introducing Innovations at 28nm to Move Beyond Moore’s Law (REVISED)
In addition to processing techniques, FPGA innovations allow Altera to move beyond Moore’s Law to meet higher bandwidth requirements while meeting cost and power budgets.…