Company Flash

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Company Flash

• Design for Performance
• Superior Software
• Aggressive Pricing
• Engineering Support

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Company Overview

• Founded 1984 by 2 engineers from Litton
  Industries
• Dan McLane
• Background - Analog control for inertial
  navigation, started digital control in 1986
• Now leads Hardware/Firmware Engineering and
  Manufacturing
• Jim Henderson
• Background - Equipment Design for optical coil
  winding, advanced motion controls
• Now leads Software Engineering and Test
• Company Incorporated 1990
• Located in Simi Valley, CA (Los Angeles)

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Company Overview

• Specialize in DSP/FPGA Analog IO, and Data
  Acquisition
• High-performance and application-oriented boards
  with excellent SW support
• Products used in PCI, compactPCI or stand-alone
  system with optional serial link to PC/laptop
• Target high-performance applications
• Application-oriented board design and tools
• Superior software support for rapid development
• Excellent performance/price value
• TI and Xilinx 3rd party provider
• Represented in 25 countries

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Product Type

• Hardware
• PCI, cPCI and Standalone DSP Data Acq boards
• High-spectral purity analog input/output channels
  
• FPGA for user code DSP (hardware acceleration)
• Many peripherals for fast system integration
• JTAG emulator, wiring accessories
• Software
• Unrivaled set of tools for very fast deployment
• Many code examples DSP target side and host PC
  side
• DSP/BIOS support for C6711/C6416 products
• Enormous host-side C/C libraries
• SW and firmware source code can be made available
  (under non-disclosure agreement) for specific
  needs

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Our Mission

• Deliver products that solve real-time problems at
  reasonable cost and with accelerated schedule
• Making real-time real easy
• Enabling customers non DSP specialists - to
  solve real-time computing and data acquisition
  problems
• Provide COTS (Commercially Off-The-Shelf) boards,
  proven better choice than customer in-house
  design
• How We Do It
• Design innovative architectures for optimized
  data flow
• Use the best DSPs, FPGAs and analog components
• Design advanced logic for fast, flexible
  interfaces
• SW that combines ease of use with performance
• HW and SW that together provide a complete
  solution
• Good tech support Engineering accessibility

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Our Strengths

• Leading-edge performance designs
• Application-oriented products (not evaluation
  kits)
• Large selection of I/O peripherals
• High-quality analog channel count, resolution,
  speed, SINAD, SFDR
• Utilize best advances in chip technology, circuit
  design and firmware/software tools for innovative
  architectures
• Offer solutions, not just HW with a memory map
  and DLLs
• DevPack all you need from beginning to end,
  examples, source
• Host Side libraries and powerful example projects
• DSP/BIOS peripheral device drivers, C classes
  for DSP
• VHDL framework for custom logic development

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Our Strengths

• Serve a wide spectrum of industries
• Test Measurement, Industrial control,
  Audio/Video processing, Telecommunications,
  Signal Intelligence, SONAR/RADAR, Acoustic,
  Surveillance, Vibration analysis/control,
  Medical/Bio Instruments, Scanning Microscopy,
  High-speed physics, Semiconductor testing
• Offer good tech support and engineering
  assistance to customer
• Provide fast semi-customization for volume
  applications
• Full custom design for medium to high volume apps
• Recognized leader for performance/price value
• Constantly designing new products

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Applications by Field

• Defense
• RADAR, SONAR, Signal Intelligence, Military
  radio, Guidance controls, Flight Recorder, Jet
  Engine Testing, Vibration Analysis, Land Mine
  detection
• Medical
• Pacemaker development, Genetic imaging, Bionic
  Ear, Cardiac assist pump
• Audio/Video
• Record/Playback, Noise cancellation, Adaptive
  Filtering, Compression, Image Processing, Media
  Analysis

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Application by Field

• Industrial Controls
• Motion, High-speed servo control, Hihg-speed
  servo-control, OEM sub-systems such as scanning
  microscope, ultrasonic materials inspection,
  laser control
• Telecom
• Software Radio for Wireless and Broadband
  Development, Physical Layer for Test Eqt, IF
  data logging, RF controller
• Test Measurement
• Semiconductor Test, Vibration Analysis, Engine
  Control, MEMS control, Active Vibration Control
  for Lithography, Disk Drive Testing, Logging
  While Drilling, Seismic Analysis

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Product Overview

• Catalog Products
• Design Goals
• Features

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Current Catalog Products

• Data Acquisition Playback
• ChicoPlus/cChicoPlus Omnibus I/O
• Four Series of DSP Boards
• Modular
• Solomente
• Matador
• Velocia
• Superior Software Support Zuma, Armada, Pismo
• DevPack Accessories

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Data Acquisition Playback

• ChicoPlus Design Goals
• Highest performance possible under Windows
• 64MB/s sustained to host RAM on 32bit/33MHz
  desktop
• Serve wide markets with choice of analog I/O
• 15 Omnibus modules
• Up to 65MSPS
• 100dB SNR performance
• 32 simultaneous channels
• Pseudo real-time processing by host CPU
• Fully open C platform
• Enormous SW libraries for fast development

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Data Acquisition Playback

• ChicoPlus High-speed data streaming PCI/cPCI
  Card
• OMNIBUS Modules Choice of over (15) I/O
  daughter cards
• Armada SW Flexible, rapid development under
  C

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ChicoPlus Benefits

• Excellent Price / Performance Value
• Streams at 64MB/sec to/from PC Memory
• lt2000 with one I/O daughter card
• Real-time Capture Play (hardware event-driven)
• Flexibility, Speed, Ease-of-use
• Large choice of I/O modules
• Numerous trigger modes supported
• Powerful SW package built atop C
• Speed, speed, speed...under Windows !
• Turnkey apps solve typical Acq SigGen problems

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ChicoPlus Benefits

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Example of I/O modules

• SERVO16 16 A/D 16 DAC,16bit,100 kHz simult!
• High channel count controls, high-end data
  logging, TM
• SD 4 A/D 4 DAC, 24bit, Sigma Delta 48 kHz
• S/N 100dB, great for acoustics, SONAR,
  vibration,
• A4D1 4 A/D 1 DA, 14bit, 10 MHz simult.
• S/N 77dB, Transient Capture, RADAR,
  spectroscopy,
• AD40 2 A/D , 12bit, 40 MHz, ext trig, FIFO
  buffer
• S/N 65dB, Burst capture, Ultrasound,
  Semiconductor test
• On-board anti-alias filters (customizable)
• Differential or S.E. input, AC or DC coupled
• Choice of clock source and start trigger signals
• FIFO buffering for the very fast A/Ds (gt1MHz)

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Large Omnibus I/O Selection
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How does ChicoPlus do it?
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DSP Product Overview

• Four Series of DSP boards
• MODULAR
• SOLOMENTE
• MATADOR
• VELOCIA

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MODULAR DSP Series

• Design Goals
• Flexible DSP boards for desktop industrial PCs
  
• Large choice of Omnibus I/O daughter cards
• Open architecture for custom I/O
• Lots of peripherals for easy system integration

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MODULAR DSP Series

• Main Features
• Single or Quad C6201/C6701
• PCI or cPCI
• Modular I/O via 2 OMNIBUS modules
• From 48kHz (audio) to 65MHz (IF capture)
• 15 choices of daughter cards
• Can mix and match on same card
• Customer can build custom cards
• Spec at http//www.innovative-dsp.com/support/appn
  otes.htm
• FIFOPort External data port to 80MB/s
• SyncLink to synchronize with external HW
• Products M62, cM62, M67, cM67, Q62, Q67
• Zuma SW Toolset C libraries for DSP and host
  sides, applets

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SOLOMENTE DSP Series

• Design Goals
• Stand-alone DSP boards for embedded systems,
  remote systems or simply PC-independent systems
• Host communication via serial links
• Flexible I/O with Omnibus daughter cards
• Open Architecture for custom I/O
• Industry-ready package as opposed to EVM and
  DSK eval boards because more peripherals and
  long product life

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SOLOMENTE DSP Series

• SOLOMENTE SERIES Main Features
• Single DSP C6201/C6701/C6711
• Stand-alone cards with USB / RS232 to host
• Flexible I/O, with 2 OMNIBUS daughter card sites
• Boot from Flash ROM
• FIFOPort data port, SyncLink, Digital IO, DDS
  timebase
• Products SBC62, SBC67, SBC6711, and .
• Zuma SW Toolset C libraries for DSP and host
  sides, applets
• Pismo SW Toolset for SBC6711 C, BIOS drivers
  and more

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MATADOR DSP Series

• Design Goals
• Highest performance analog I/O for PCI cPCI
  systems
• Floating-point DSP
• Real-time co-processing or multitask control
• High dynamic range
• C-Code friendly
• Application-oriented design and software tools
• Ultra-flexible triggering with FPGA
• FPGA user-reconfigurable for specific tasks or
  moderate signal processing
• Complete set of system-level peripherals
• Tight integration provides performance, ease of
  use

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MATADOR DSP Series

• MATADOR Main Features
• Advanced Architecture
• Fixed set of analog I/O for highest data rates
  and lowest latency (burst interface flexible
  triggering)
• C6711 150MHz or C6713 225MHz
• PCI 32 - or 64bit, 33MHz, 3.3V or 5V bus
• DSP/BIOS drivers for fast development, max
  bandwidth
• 64bit DIO, FIFOPort, SyncLink, Autocal, Ext
  trigger
• Six boards released to-date
• Vista, Toro, Conejo, Delfin, Oruga, Lobo
• Pismo Armada SW toolset C, BIOS drivers,Host
  streaming,Applets

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VELOCIA DSP Series

• VELOCIA Design Goals
• Highest performance DSPFPGA on the market
• Ultra-fast I/O and co-processing for cPCI and
  StarFabric systems
• Optimum mapping of tasks, combining the most
  powerful DSP chips with the largest FPGAs
• Advanced integration to deliver lowest latency
  and highest bandwidth between devices
• Open architecture for fast integration of IO and
  easy communication within external HW
• Provide solid framework for advanced, highly
  customized (IP value-added) development

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VELOCIA DSP Series

• VELOCIA Main Features
• Ultimate Speed Flexibility
• C6416 DSP 720MHz and up to 1GHz
• Virtex-II or Spartan3 FPGAs
• PMC sites 64bit/66Mhz
• PCI or cPCI, 32 or 64bit, 33 and 66MHz
• Pismo Armada SW toolset C, BIOS drivers,Host
  streaming,Applets
• First card to market Quixote
• 105MHz analog IO, PMC site, StarFabric port
• Second card to be released soon Quadia
• Most powerful DSP card on the market
• Multi-DSP with ultra-connectivity in- and outward

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Recent Releases

• Product Released Since Last Conference
• (March 02)

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Conejo

• Applications
• Ultra-Fast servo-control
• RADAR, fast SONAR
• Agile Waveform Generation
• Semiconductor Testing
• Laser, Spectroscopy

• (4) A/D 14-bit 10MSPS
• (4) D/A 16-bit up to 50 MSPS
• Ultra-flexible trigger control
• Very Low I/O latency
• 76dN SNR, 85dB SFDR (in system)

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Delfin

• Applications
• SONAR
• Acoustics
• Pro-Audio
• Precision Instrumentation
• Vibration Analysis

• (32) A/D 24-bit sigma-delta
• (6) D/A 24-bit sigma-delta
• 192 KHz per channel
• 98dB SNR, -104dB THD in system !

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Quixote

• Applications
• Software Radio PHY
• Radio Eqt Testing
• RADAR front-end
• High-speed Physics
• Ultrasound

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Serial IO Omnibus Module

• Applications
• High-speed serial I/O
• Customized interface
• Hardware-based data merge and formatting
• Moderate signal processing

• 24bit Digital I/O
• (3) sets of 8 differential pairs
• Quad UART with RS232 or RS422
• (16) LEDs
• 150K Spartan-2 FPGA
• Direct link to McBSP of DSP

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And other releases
And More . ! Will be review later in more depth