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News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: Foxboro
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 24 December 2001
Methodology cuts weeks off flow meter
design
Celoxica has secured the sale of DK1 design suite licenses to Foxboro, a unit of Invensys Process Systems, to create FPGA-based Coriolis flow meters for process measurement applications.
Celoxica has secured the sale of DK1 design suite licenses to Foxboro, a unit of Invensys Process Systems, to create FPGA-based Coriolis flow meters for process measurement applications Foxboro enlisted the help of researchers at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom to evaluate Celoxica's DK1 design suite and a methodology to develop FPGA prototypes of meters
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
Celoxica offers a free go at FPGA design
Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
The company is now moving ahead with the development of other products.
Flow meters are common devices to measure the flow of liquids.
However, the varied properties of different liquids generally make it necessary to select specific meters for each application.
The Foxboro device has been designed to work under conditions common with most applications and can be modified for specific needs through DK1.
"The real value of the Celoxica tools is the quick re-engineering capability and smooth transfer to a production platform", said Dennis Hazel, director of Engineering for Foxboro.
"The DK1 methodology allows us to accomplish tasks in a time frame that conventional design methods cannot handle.
The flow meter transmitter we've developed here will set a new standard in the measurement industry".
Hazel said it took approximately 12 weeks to design the entire product, including the chip, and Foxboro should be able to transfer the prototype from the Pentium development platform to the PowerPC run-time platform in a relatively short time.
"Foxboro is the most innovative provider of automation and process mechanisms to the industrial world", said Dennis Nye, senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, Celoxica, "Like all of our customers, they are looking for ways to break through the barriers of modern semiconductor design and provide real solutions to the complex technology challenges of today".
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