This video highlights the latest addition to the popular Cobalt® family of Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA VPX boards, the Model 53662 four channel, 200 MHz, 16-bit data acquisition board with built-in digital down converters. With an input bandwidth from 300 kHz to 700 MHz, the board is suitable for direct connection to IF or RF ports of communications, UAV and radar systems for real-time DSP tasks such as demodulation and decoding. Together with Pentek’s ReadyFlow® board support package, with its built-in command line interface and signal viewer, the Model 53662 forms a complete solution for data acquisition, processing and analysis.

With 32 channels of multiband DDC, the Model 53662 is ideal for communication applications where a multitude of channels need to be intercepted and received in parallel. In addition to the on-board resources, Pentek provides the components that enable customers to easily build, customize and integrate their own application. GateFlow® enables custom FPGA IP development and the ReadyFlow board support libraries and command line interface allow engineers to get up and running quickly.

A discussion of the planning and development of safety-critical embedded systems as well as the incorporation of redundancy schemes into safety-critical applications.

It is important to remember that all codecs have their upsides and downsides. In considering any single algorithm for use the system architect must be aware of all factors and also that it is unlikely that any one codec will be completely ideal for its intended application. Limitations on the bandwidth of any network being used are a very important consideration.

In order to get some real world metrics for compression quality versus file size for each of the codecs, a test setup was created to encode various types of material at different compression rates, such that the resultant files could be examined for both size and video quality after being decompressed.

This white paper has been written to examine two of the more popular video codec technologies, MPEG-4 Part 10 (also known as Advanced Video Coding (AVC) and ITU-T H.264) and JPEG2000.

This solution overview provides a brief look at how Integrity, a PTC product (formerly MKS Integrity) reduces the effort in Risk Management for Medical Device Engineering companies.

Learn how by providing organizations with the ability to reduce the overwhelming complexity of developing software intensive products removes barriers which ultimately drives more innovative products into the market and help overcome the most commonly reported challenges in the Medical Device Industry.

Software is an opportunity for innovation and differentiation — but also a source of risk that can broadly and deeply affect the success of the entire organization as the software defines the experience of the customers.

This complexity will only continue to grow as an example — automobiles in the near future, will require 200 to 300 million lines of software code. To add to the complexity, development of a single product may involve coordinating teams in different locations and time zones.

The only way to achieve this control and collaboration is through the use of a coherent software system lifecycle management solution like Integrity, a PTC product.

This video demonstrates how the MKS Integrity solution for Medical Devices, enables engineering organizations to improve software and product quality, automate risk management, efficiently demonstrate compliance and reduce time to market and development costs. With MKS Integrity, engineering teams can:

* Demonstrate compliance in minutes with automated report generation rather than the weeks required with manual processes

* Manage the volume and velocity of software driven change

* Improve team orchestration and reuse design and development artifacts

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.

When working on projects with large codebases that re-use components, it can be hard to identify which projects and products are affected by defects in shared code. How do you understand the impact of defects in your shared components? How do you analyze and prioritize the defects in your shared components so you know what to fix first, or not at all? How do you effectively track defect status and history across shared code?

Attend this webcast and you will learn five steps you can take to make the process of finding and fixing defects across shared code more efficient to increase developer productivity and reduce the risk of a schedule slip.

In this 30 minutes session you will learn:
• How to effectively scan your software to identify hard to spot defects in shared code
• How to identify which projects and products are impacted by defects to prioritize which defects should be fixed first
• What actions and best practices are needed to ensure the necessary fixes are implemented to prevent defects from entering the field

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.

Gain insight into how to successfully overcome strict compliance and testing requirements, and increasing demand for increasingly complex functionality with Coverity software integrity products for organizations with zero tolerance policies for software failures and security breaches. Results summarized alongside Deloitte, VDC Research, and other studies.