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Fully design and debug your AMC and MicroTCA designs in a portable, flexible environment. Check out BittWare's RapidTCA Developers System. Datasheet: RapidTCA Developers System: Development Environment for AMC/MicroTCA Systems
GXAM - Altera Stratix II AdvancedMC
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Welcome to the second issue of BittWare's Innovative Solutions Newsletter. This newsletter brings you up-to-date on the latest news from BittWare - from new products, to upcoming events. In this issue, we highlight an interview with BittWare President & CEO, Jeffry Milrod. "...We now believe the optimal solution for general purpose signal processing boards should have both FPGAs and DSPs - a 'hybrid' signal processing architecture..." Published in the June 2007 Issue of VME and Critical Systems, Open Systems Publishing VME: Before we begin, can you briefly describe BittWare's DSP line-up? MILROD: Historically, BittWare has focused on providing multi-processing, floating point signal processing boards with the highest possible performance. That has necessarily meant using a bunch of Analog Devices SHARC and TigerSHARC processors. We started adding FPGAs to our DSP clusters just to provide reconfigurable interfacing. But as FPGA technology has improved, we've found that they provide complementary signal processing resources to the DSPs. At the risk of oversimplifying, FPGAs are very good at solving well-defined, high-speed, repetitive problems, while DSPs are generally better at implementing highly complex algorithms and applications that require floating point, some sort of decision-making, adaptive processing, or algorithms that may change frequently. Real-world embedded signal processing applications often require both of these types of processing. Therefore, we now believe the optimal solution for general purpose signal processing boards should have both FPGAs and DSPs - a 'hybrid' signal processing architecture - providing more cost- and power-efficient solutions than either alone. After a few missteps, we chose Altera's Stratix II, Stratix II GX, and Stratix III families of FPGAs to combine with the TigerSHARCs for this new approach. We now have boards that combine DSPs and FPGAs building blocks and allow them to be symmetrically or asymmetrically scaled, overcoming challenges such as I/O distribution, communication between compute elements, and host command and control. Read complete text (PDF)> |
BittWare and CorEdge Networks Announce Partnership BittWare Introduces the Market's Best Connected and Most Flexible Advanced Mezzanine Card
September 11-14, 2007 - Defense Systems & Equipment Int'l in London, UK September 18-19 , 2007 - AdvancedTCA Summit Europe in Paris, France
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