A Low-Cost, High Performance Data Acquisition & Control Card Using LatticeECP/EC FPGAs and Lattice ispPAC Power Manager White Paper

LatticeECP/EC FPGAs: A Systolic Array Processor for Software Defined Radio White Paper

Implementing Efficient Low-Power PCIe Interfaces with Low-Cost FPGAs

A history of architectural and process advancements has enabled Altera® Cyclone® V FPGAs to be used in numerous low-cost and low-power applications in the industrial, automotive, military, communication and consumer markets, among others. This white paper outlines a real-life PCI Express® (PCIe®) Gen1x4 reference design including a DDR3 memory controller. It shows just how effective Cyclone V F...

Total Power Advantage Using Spartan-7 FPGAs (WP488)

Cost-optimized Spartan®-7 FPGAs leverage the proven 7 series architecture. Built on the 28nm HPL process and enabled by the Vivado® Design Suite to offer the lowest total power for cost-sensitive products, power-efficient Spartan-7 devices reduce system costs even further by reducing power supply and thermal solution costs without compromising best-in-class performance. Spartan-7 FPGAs provide:...

Complex analog correlating pulsed UWB-receiver in realistic 0-1GHz channels

The complex analog correlating (CAC) receiver is an excellent candidate for low power, low data rate pulsed UWB communication, but only in ideal AWGN channels. This paper adapts the traditional architecture and acquisition scheme of this receiver for operation in realistic multipath channels. Two schemes are presented: a high performance scheme, and a simpler, but easy to implement and low powe...

Performance evaluation of a full speed PCI initiator and target subsystem using FPGAs

State-of-the-art FPGAs are just capable of implementing PCI bus initiator and target functions at the original bus speed of 33 MHz. This paper reports on the use of a Xilinx 4000 series FPGA and LogiCore macros to implement a fully compliant PCI card for a specialist data acquisition application. The design required careful performance analysis and manual intervention during the design process ...