In our fast-paced technology-centric world, the sooner you can get a new design out the door the sooner you get to revenue. The old adage "why reinvent the wheel" usually holds true, especially if it is quicker and less expensive than forging a solution on your own.

Many of BittWare's customers face a build versus buy decision when they are in the initial phases of their project. Do they design and build their own boards and then compile the system? Or do they look to a third party board designer/manufacturer and buy a COTS solution? The second option enables them to focus their time and energy on designing the complete system - their true value-add. A COTS solution is typically less expensive from both a dollar-cost and risk-basis and can significantly increase a customers time-to-market and in turn, their time-to-revenue. This was the case for one of BittWare's telecomm customers.

The company exclusively designs digital telecommunications testing equipment for various communications protocols such as Long Term Evolution (LTE), IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), WiMAX, and VoIP, among others. This specific project centered on LTE test equipment. The main requirements were flexible signal processing on a small form factor . The end solution utilized BittWare's SF/GX-AMC - BittWare's Altera Stratix II GX FPGA-based AMC with SFP/SFP+ - for the first generation of products, moving to the S4-AMC- BittWare'sAltera Stratix IV GX - for the next generation. Both boards provide unparalleled flexibility via the on-board FPGA and BittWare's ATLANTiS FrameWork, all on a small form factor Advanced Mezzanine Card.