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News Release from: Hunt Engineering | Subject: Heron-FPGA14
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 August 2006
Module masters complex DSP challenges
The Heron-FPGA14 module is the latest in a range of Heron modules with a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA.
Hunt Engineering has released the Heron-FPGA14 module which is the latest in a range of Heron modules with a Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGA The Heron-FPGA14 offers a choice of either a Virtex-4 LX or Virtex-4 SX both with 180 user programmable digital I/Os and 128Mbyte of off-chip DDR memory
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.
High-gate-count FPGA module aids real-time DSP
The Heron-FPGA4 DSP module from Hunt Engineering has a Xilinx Virtex II with a choice of 3, 6 or 8 million gates.
The LX platform of the Virtex-4 is the highest logic and I/O to feature ratio FPGA, whereas the SX platform has the highest DSP and memory to feature ratio.
Heron-FPGA14 is ideal for hardware signal processing or for flexible digital I/O Together with the recently released Heron-FPGA12 which has a Virtex-4 FX with embedded PowerPC, Heron modules now offer each of the Virtex-4 platforms.
Developers can configure a system highly optimised to the demands of their applications.
Modules with Virtex-4 offer the opportunity to use FPGA technology for many complex high performance DSP challenges and a wide range of I/O standards.
As with all Heron-FPGA modules, Hunt includes VHDL IP for many commonly used functions for the Virtex-4 range to speed the development process.
The Heron modular system allows the developer to combine any of these Virtex-4 modules or to combine them with any other Heron I/O or DSP modules to build a powerful system with endless possibilities.
Hunt Engineering's Heart communications system enables data-passing in real time between the modules at up to 400Mbyte/s in each direction.
Equally, any Heron module can be used stand alone.
Heron systems can be used embedded, mounted in a host machine or connected to a PC via USB.
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