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Developing Functional Safety Systems with TÜV-Qualified FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)

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 is changing the paradigms of safety designs and will greatly reduce development effort, system complexity, and time to market. This allows FPGA users to design their own customized safety controllers and provides a significant competitive advantage over traditional microcontroller or ASIC-based designs.

Sponsored by: Altera

Targeting and Retargeting Guide for Spartan-6 FPGAs (WHITE PAPER)

When targeting or retargeting code from a prior design, some considerations should be made to achieve a quicker and more optimal design when selecting a Spartan®-6 FPGA. This white paper identifies and details the appropriate targeting guidelines and other considerations needed to achieve an improved result for these devices.

Sponsored by: Xilinx

Xilinx FPGA Embedded Memory Advantages (WHITE PAPER)

The Virtex®-6 and Spartan®-6 architectures feature flexible internal memory resources that can be configured in a variety of different sizes. This white paper details the available features, illustrating the wide array of memory sizes available and shows the trade-off of using different resources to perform memory functions of different sizes.

Sponsored by: Xilinx

Simplify Video Processing with IP Cores and Low-Power FPGAs (VIDEO)

Need to get your video processing systems up and running faster? Developing these applications typically requires implementing and connecting several complex functions. Watch this 5-minute video to learn about pre-verified, configurable building blocks that simplify and accelerate the process for building a complex video chain.

Sponsored by: Altera

Actel SmartFusion: Intelligent, Innovative Integration (WHITE PAPER)

Actel SmartFusion™ Intelligent Mixed Signal FPGAs – Innovative, Intelligent, Integration. Introducing the only device that integrates a flash FPGA, hard ARM® Cortex™-M3-based microcontroller subsystem (MSS) and programmable analog into a complete, integrated solution. Don’t compromise your embedded design. Build the system you want, with all the features you need, on a single-chip solution. Read the White Paper to learn more.

Sponsored by: Actel

Design Made Easy With Mixed-Signal FPGAs and State of the Art Software Tools (WHITE PAPER)

This paper examines the evolution path for FPGAs with embedded processors, and the design tools that support them, and considers whether engineers need to evolve their techniques to accommodate the integrated silicon or whether they can continue to manage their boundaries at the silicon level instead of the board level. New techniques are available in the embedded mixed‐signal FPGA design flow, but do they smooth the adoption of a fully integrated device? Find out by reading the White Paper.

Sponsored by: Actel

Simplifying Multi-Rail Power Management for FPGA designers (CHALK TALK)

Designing a multi-rail power subsystem? Make it easy, and protect expensive ICs, such as FPGAs. Complex designs call for powerful and sophisticated solutions without compromising ease and speed of design. Join Amelia Dalton as she talks with Dave Clemens of Linear Technology about how you can easily set up all-in-one supervising, sequencing, controlling and monitoring of multiple power supplies.

Sponsored by: Linear Technology

Platform Management Using MachXO & ProcessorPM PLDs (Webcast)

PLDs are commonly used in platform management applications for housekeeping and power-up management. In this webcast, we discuss the requirements of PLDs in this scenario and look at some of the advantages of the MachXO and ProcessorPM devices from Lattice. We will also examine some of the convenient tools that Lattice provides for quick evaluation and experimentation of the MachXO and ProcessorPM PLDs.

Sponsored by: Lattice