Product category: Embedded Computing and Control
News Release from: Hunt Engineering | Subject: Heron-FPGA9
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 9 September 2004
Embedded DSP module
takes Virtex-II onboard
The Heron-FPGA9 is the first in a range of Heron modules based on Virtex-II Pro devices
The Virtex-II Pro adds the functionality of a PowerPC core to FPGA, providing the most advanced logic with extremely high performance. The Heron Virtex-II Pro range will combine the Virtex-II Pro with off-chip DDR memory which can be accessed at 200MHz plus a USB port and a variety of I/O options at hundreds of megahertz, all on the same module.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 September 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Heron-FPGA9 has a 1Mgate Virtex-II plus Power PC, 30 digital I/Os and 256Mbyte DDR SDRAM.
Other modules in the range will offer choices of FPGA gate size, I/O options and larger memory.
Peter Warnes, Technical Director of Hunt Engineering commented: "The Virtex-II Pro family gives DSP engineers higher performance and lower power consumption than before as well as the option to continue to program in C if they wish".
"For Hunt Engineering the introduction of Virtex-II Pro modules allows us to offer even more flexibility within a product range that can solve virtually any DSP demand".
Heron modules can be used in any combination in order to achieve the perfect configuration for a particular application.
Virtex-II Pro, Virtex-II, C6000 DSP and I/O modules can be combined in the same system using Hunt Engineering's Heart communications system to pass data in real time between the modules at up to 400Mbyte/s in each direction.
Equally, any Heron module can be used stand alone and any Heron system can be used embedded or mounted in a host machine.
As with all Heron-FPGA modules, Hunt will provide VHDL IP for commonly used functions for the Virtex-II Pro range.
Hunt will also supply "standard" configurations so that a user can write C code for the PowerPC to call standard hardware accelerated functions using Hunt APIs while advanced developers will have the option to use all of the features of the Virtex-II Pro.
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