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Video: Annapolis Micro Systems Video Product Demonstration

Patrick Stover, Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Annapolis Micro Systems product demonstration by Vice President of Sales Patrick Stover. Annapolis Micro Systems is the leader in COTS FPGA-based high performance computing board level products. Among Annapolis’ leading computing products are the CoreFire and Wildstar family of products.

Reconfigurable Computing uses Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as attached processing elements in a computing system, in order to dramatically increase the processing speed. Annapolis Micro Systems’ products include support for:
–Bus Options: VME, PCI, CompactPCI, PMC and PCMCIA;
–I/O options: Dual 1.5 / 2.3 GSps DAC, Dual 1.5 GHz A/D, 1/5 GHz A/D Pro, 1.5 GHz A/D, Quad 105 MHz A/D, 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Infiniband, Quad Fibre Channel 2, WILDSTAR Data Port (WSDP), FPDP, Fiber Optic GLINK, 80 MH A/D, Race and Race++ and others.

Annapolis Micro Systems is committed to helping its customers achieve their goals, with new CoreFire Design Suite, API and drivers, libraries, training classes, custom application development, and hourly support.

The company’s international customer base includes government labs, prime contractors, small companies, and universities.

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. was founded in May 1982 to provide electronic R&D and product design, custom hardware, software and systems design and manufacturing.

As an electronic design company, Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. invented and developed a variety of electronic products for customers, such as IBM, Schlumberger, Alcatel Data Networks, Ericsson-GE, Computer Sciences Corporation, and the US. Government.

Annapolis Micro Systems, Inc. has earned a reputation for excellence in the areas of custom XILINX FPGA Design, system design, application development, ASIC design, complex printed circuit board design, surface mount assembly, and customer support.

Visit Annapolis at www.annapmicro.com

Video demonstration created by OpenSystems Media, www.opensystemsmedia.com and Vance Studios Productions.

Video: CY8CKIT-023 PSoC Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories

Leon Tan, Cypress — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:00:00 +0000

Designers can use Cypress’s new CY8CKIT-023 PSoC Expansion Board Kit For iPhone & iPod Accessories – a plug-in board to Cypress’s CY8CKIT-001 PSoC Platform Development Kit – to streamline design of innovative mobile accessories using the flexible PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture. The new kit leverages the iPhone OS operating system of Apple’s iPhone and iPod products and the corresponding iPhone SDK (Software Development Kit) to provide a two-way communication interface between apps from Apple’s App Store and corresponding accessories.

Video: SoftScan radar scan conversion

Andrew Hipperson, Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:00:00 +0000

SoftScan brings GPU acceleration to radar scan conversion applications. SoftScan uses a unique GPU-based algorithm that performs high-resolution scan conversion on large polar stores with minimal CPU overhead and requires no specialized hardware. Even when rendering multiple channels of radar video (from radars, network or synthetic sources) CPU load is kept to a minimum.

Supporting polar format radar video input either directly from radar acquisition hardware or distributed via network, SoftScan outputs radar display data in a number of formats including Plan Position Indicator (PPI), A-Scan and B-Scan. SoftScan utilizes the signal processing power available in modern GPUs to provide powerful algorithms that ensure there are no holes or spokes in the displayed image, even when zooming-in at long range, and that all single point targets are displayed. As well as displaying traditional plan views of radar, SoftScan allows radar images to be shown in real-time as projections from different origins and angles.

Video: Audience, Inc: Cell Phone Noise Reduction Based on the Human Hearing System

Lloyd Watts, CTO, Audience, Inc. — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:00:00 +0000

The Audience Voice Processor is the first integrated circuit that is modeled after the most efficient and accurate auditory system, the human hearing system. By understanding the auditory pathway – from the cochlea to the brainstem to the thalamus and cortex – Audience is the first company to deliver a commercial product based on the science of Auditory Scene Analysis (ASA), or the grouping and processing of complex mixtures of sound. Because the Audience Voice Processor handles signals the way people actually perceive specific sounds, Audience is able to identify and suppress noise sources in an extremely efficient and accurate manner.

Fast Cochlea Transform™
Just as the cochlea is central to the human auditory system, the Fast Cochlea Transform (FCT) is the heart of the Audience Voice Processor. The transformation provides optimum time-frequency resolution on a logarithmic frequency axis, without introducing frame artifacts, to allow the various components of the multiple sound sources to be characterized and separated from each other. The FCT’s transformation into the spectral domain is essential for Audience’s high-performance noise suppression because it permits regions of the frequency spectrum to be separately identified with different sound sources, even when they are present simultaneously.

Video: 3D instructions on sheet metal stamping

3D animation instruction, Dassault Systemes — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:00:00 +0000

While the stubborn tradition of paper has prevented technical documents from enjoying the savings of the digital age, the move to electronic 3D documents can be quick when the data already exists in your Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system. When an embedded system is produced using PLM technology, all the information is available to create multimedia manuals that illustrate how to, for example, remove an RF module from a missile. Leveraging digital assets can reap large benefits in transforming technical documents and eliminating trial and error, streamlining the manufacturing process, and making electronic collaboration more efficient.

Video: Servicing a jet engine

3D animation instruction, Dassault Systemes — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Video: 40-nm FPGA and 8.5 Gbps transceiver video

Zhe Wong, Altera Corporation — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:00:00 +0000

In this 4-minute video, check out Altera’s new 40-nm FPGA demos showcasing 1.5-Gbps LVDS performance and an 8.5-Gbps transceiver operating with excellent signal integrity. You’ll watch eye diagrams demonstrating very low jitter, and how pre-emphasis and equalization improve signal integrity and allow for very long traces.