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News Release from: Hunt Engineering | Subject: Heron-FPGA3 and Heron-IO2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 18 July 2001
Modules ease FPGA-based digital signal
processing
Building on the recent addition of FPGA modules to the popular Hunt Engineering Heron range for modular DSP, the Heron-FPGA3 and Heron-IO2 modules use Virtex II FPGAs from Xilinx.
Building on the recent addition of FPGA modules to the popular Hunt Engineering Heron range for modular DSP, the Heron-FPGA3 and Heron-IO2 modules use Virtex II FPGAs from Xilinx Heron-FPGA3V has a Virtex II with 1 million gates, together with 90 digital I/O and serial options
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Apr 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Hunt Engineering has extended its Heron range of modular products for digital signal processing to offer modules that use Xilinx FPGAs to offer powerful DSP processing and hugely flexible I/O.
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The Heron-FPGA4 DSP module from Hunt Engineering has a Xilinx Virtex II with a choice of 3, 6 or 8 million gates.
Heron-IO2V has a Virtex II with 1 million gates plus two channels of 105Msample/s 12bit A/D and two channels of 125Msample/s 14bit D/A.
This combination in one module presents the most flexible yet in the Heron product range.
The use of FPGAs for digital signal processing is a hot topic and the Virtex II architecture has been specifically designed for DSP applications.
"FPGAs are increasingly being used in the world of DSP, the architectural features of Virtex II allows this implementation to be taken to a new level of performance", said John Heighton, IP and Services Marketing Manager with Xilinx Europe.
The Heron product range allows developers to combine this technology with C6000 DSP and high-performance I/O, making it attractive to designers of a wide range of systems.
These products are already being designed in to software-radio applications (where FPGA-based digital down conversion can be used to feed the C6000 with baseband-only data), but also sonar, imaging and data acquisition systems.
When fitted to a Heron module carrier like the HEPC8 PCI card, Heron-FPGA modules can have their "program" downloaded from the PC over the Heron serial bus.
This allows users to program and reprogram them just as they would with the DSP elements of the system.
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