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News Release from: Celoxica | Subject: DK Design Suite
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 20 June 2005
C-based synthesis speeds bomb analysis
HiEnergy Technologies has adopted the Celoxica DK Design Suite of C-based design and synthesis tools to accelerate chemical formula analysis algorithms.
HiEnergy Technologies, a developer of advanced stoichiometric sensor devices, has adopted the Celoxica DK Design Suite of C-based design and synthesis tools to accelerate chemical formula analysis algorithms HiEnergy and Celoxica have successfully implemented and delivered these algorithms using Celoxica RC2000 FPGA boards in HiEnergy's Siegma 3E3 product used for the remote detection of hidden homemade bombs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We chose to work with Celoxica because they provided us with a complete software and hardware acceleration solution for optimising the performance of our C algorithms", said Dr Bogdan Maglich, HiEnergy's CEO and Chief Scientist.
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"This solution gives us the speed and flexibility necessary to optimise our Siegma 3E3 system, demonstrated in our recent reduction of false positives by half with no increase in the interrogation time".
Based in Irvine, California, HiEnergy develops neutron-based sensor devices with the ability to decipher the chemical formulas of unknown substances.
Without human intervention and with 95% accuracy, these devices automatically detect the presence of selected substances such as explosives, biological agents or illicit drugs.
HiEnergy uses the Celoxica C-based design and synthesis tools to optimise the algorithms and synthesise them directly to FPGA hardware.
Portions of the algorithm are moved to hardware to accelerate the signal processing and free the embedded processor for other tasks.
The accelerated hardware algorithms are then implemented on a Celoxica RC2000 PCI card which is then incorporated in the production system.
Celoxica provides the only complete design and synthesis environment to accelerate C-based algorithms directly to FPGA.
The DK Design Suite of tools delivers the fastest path from algorithm to system implementation providing software-based design entry, cycle-accurate simulation, C-based synthesis to optimised FPGA device descriptions or RTL code, and direct integration with FPGA vendor place and route.
In addition, Celoxica is the only system-level design provider that actually designs systems, offering a wide range of FPGA development cards and consulting services to ensure customer success.
"Leading edge system developers such as HiEnergy are increasingly looking to reprogrammable hardware accelerators like the RC2000 to augment processor performance, reduce power consumption and maximise algorithm performance", said Phil Bishop President and CEO of Celoxica.
"The optimisation of HiEnergy's bomb detection systems shows the power of our C-based design and synthesis tools and how they can be deployed to quickly expand the performance and capabilities of very complex signal processing systems".
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