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News Release from: Actel Europe | Subject: Core1553BRT-EBR and CoreCordic
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 19 May 2006
Cores are optimised for space-grade
FPGAs
Two new intellectual property cores are optimised for use with Actel's radiation-tolerant and firm-error immune field-programmable gate arrays.
Two new intellectual property (IP) cores are optimised for use with Actel's radiation-tolerant and firm-error immune field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) In support of the emerging SAE AS5682 standard, the new Core1553BRT-EBR is a complete, dual-redundant enhanced-bitrate (EBR) remote terminal core that offers the reliability and datarates required for high-bandwidth applications such as radar and laser targeting
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 13 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Further, Actel is offering its CoreCordic register-transfer level (RTL) core free of charge to enable designers to build highly configurable digital signal processing systems such as digital receivers and cable modems.
"Actel has long been committed to providing solutions that meet the stringent demands of high-reliability and system-critical military, aerospace and communications applications as evidenced by the new Core1553BRT-EBR and CoreCordic solutions", said Ian Land, Senior Manager, IP solutions marketing, at Actel.
"When combined with our nonvolatile, Flash-based ProASIC3 or radiation-tolerant RTAX-S FPGAs, these new IP solutions enable designers to decrease time to market and a reduce both the nonrecurring engineering costs and high system costs associated with application-specific integrated circuits".
The Core1553BRT-EBR's time-multiplexed serial databus supports a 10Mbit/s datarate.
The core can be configured to interface with on-chip or external memory as well as low-cost RS485 transceivers.
The new Core1553BRT-EBR core also features fail-safe state machines that protect the state machine from entering an illegal state in a high-radiation environment such as in an aircraft or a satellite.
CoreCordic is a simple and efficient algorithm to calculate hyperbolic and trigonometric functions.
It also performs co-ordinate transformations between rectangular and polar co-ordinates.
Unlike competitive offerings, CoreCordic offers three architectural options a small, bit-serial architecture; a word-serial architecture for moderate performance and sise; and a parallel-pipelined architecture for high-performance applications.
The CoreCordic generator creates a user-defined test bench and RTL model, which is easily integrated into larger designs.
The Core1553BRT-EBR is available now and is priced at $10,000 for a single-use netlist.
The new CoreCordic generator is available now and is free of charge to Actel FPGA customers.
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