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- FPGA
- Field Programmable Gate Array A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of...
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- Self-healing computers for NASA spacecraft
- As you can guess, hardwired computer systems are much faster than general-purpose ones because they are designed to do a single task. But when they fail, they need to be totally reconfigured. This can be just a costly problem in a lab on Earth, but it can be vital in...
- Tags: NASA, Patent, Unit, Hardware, FPGA, Computer, UA, UA Engineer, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-25
- Black Hat, Day 1: Cracking GSM and skimming ATMs
- Day 1 at Black Hat brought some outstanding talks. The day started off with David Hulton (aka h1kari, also the producer of ToorCon) and Steve from THC, who presented on "Cracking GSM". It was quite interesting due to the tie-in that David has with Pico...
- Tags: Black Hat, FPGA, GSM, Phishing, ATM, Cyberthreats, Network Technology, Spam, Networking, Security, Spam And Phishing, Nate McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-02-20
- Light-Trail Testbed for Metro Optical Networks
- Telecommunication networks have rapidly added staggering amounts of capacity to their long haul networks at low costs per bit using DWDM technologies. Concurrently, there has been a wave of new access technologies that are driving customers to demand high-speed, robust and customized data services. These dynamics have led to what...
- Tags: Iowa State University, Optical Network, Network, FPGA, Streaming Media, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Optical Networking, Fiber Optics, Digital Media, Networking, Internet, Telecommunications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology
- White papers 2008-01-01
- Compiling PCRE to FPGA for Accelerating SNORT IDS
- Deep Payload Inspection systems like SNORT and BRO utilize regular expression for their rules due to their high expressibility and compactness. The SNORT IDS system uses the PCRE Engine for regular expression matching on the payload. The software based PCRE Engine utilizes an NFA engine based on certain opcodes which...
- Tags: Snort, FPGA, Tools & Techniques, Development Tools, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-12-04
- Driving with poor vision becomes possible
- Spanish researchers have developed and successfully tested a computer simulator allowing visually impaired to drive. This system is called SERBA (short for 'Sistema Electro-óptico Reconfigurable de ayuda para Baja Visión'), which means 'Reconfigurable Electric-Optical System for Low Vision' in English. This innovative system is based on a reconfigurable device known...
- Tags: Patient, Vision, FPGA, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-17
- A Flexible Solution for Industrial Ethernet
- This white paper describes the use of FPGA devices to deliver a multi-standard Industrial Ethernet capability from a single printed circuit board implementation. The benefits of FPGA implementation are described and an overview of the FPGA development flow, tools and technology used to create a universal but easy to maintain...
- Tags: Ethernet, Altera Corp., Circuit Board, FPGA
- White papers 2007-10-01
- Using Cyclone III FPGas for Clearer LCD HDTV Implementation
- Liquid Crystal Displays LCDs, originally designed for steady computer data text and graphics, now display fast-moving video content over much larger display panels. This capability requires special image processing algorithms that can be implemented with FPGAs. The Cyclone III family of FPGAs offers LCD designers the density and feature set...
- Tags: Altera Corp., HDTV, LCD, Image Processing, FPGA, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Video Surveillance Implementation Using FPGAs
- Currently, the video surveillance industry uses analog CCTV cameras and interfaces as the basis of surveillance systems. These system components are not easily expandable, and have low video resolution with little or no signal processing. However, the next generation of video surveillance systems will replace these components with newer digital...
- Tags: Video Surveillance, Video, Camera, FPGA, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Broadcast Video Infrastructure Implementation Using FPGAs
- The proliferation of High-Definition TeleVision HDTV video content creation and the method of delivering these contents in a bandwidth-limited broadcast channel environment have driven new video compression standards and associated video image processing applications. Traditionally, only cable and satellite operators provided video delivery. Now telecommunication companies telcos are getting into...
- Tags: Video, FPGA, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- White papers 2007-03-01
- Video and Image Processing Design Using FPGAs
- In this paper, the authors will look at the trends in video and image processing that are forcing developers to re-examine the architectures they have used in the past. This paper will discuss the tradeoffs of different architectures and conclude with details and benchmarks for Altera's new solutions in this...
- Tags: Altera Corp., Video, Image Processing, FPGA, ASICs, Corporate Communications, Semiconductors, Hardware, Marketing
- White papers 2007-03-01
- A Practical FPGA-Based Framework for Novel CMP Research
- Chip-MultiProcessors CMPs are quickly gaining momentum in all segments of computing. However, the practical success of CMPs strongly depends on addressing the difficulty of multithreaded application development. To address this challenge, it is necessary to co-develop new CMP architecture with novel programming models. Currently, architecture research relies on software simulators...
- Tags: Software, Association For Computing Machinery, FPGA, CMP
- White papers 2007-02-20
- RAMP-White: An FPGA-Based Coherent Shared Memory Parallel Computer Emulator
- RAMP-White is an FPGA-based coherent shared memory research platform. It is one of the three initial prototypes being developed by the RAMP Research Accelerator for Multiple Processors group. In the spirit of the RAMP project, RAMP-White has been architected to emphasize flexibility over raw performance. This paper describes the architecture...
- Tags: Platform, Memory, Emulator, FPGA, Computer, RAMP-White
- White papers 2007-02-17
- An FPGA-Based Network Processor for IP Packet Compression
- This paper describes the design, implementation, and experimental evaluation of a reconfigurable network processor that can do on-the-fly content adaptation of IP packets for wired or wireless networks. In the demonstration application, FPGA technology is used in conjunction with traditional RISC micro-processors to perform IP packet compression in hard-ware, using...
- Tags: Processor, Network, University Of Calgary, IP, Evaluation, Hardware, FPGA, Networking, Network Technology
- White papers 2007-01-01
- An FPGA-Based Dynamic Load-Balancing Processor Architecture for Solving N-Body Problems
- Reconfigurable computing has emerged as a key technology in the field of high performance and embedded computing. This research focuses on the use of reconfigurable processors for solving computationally intensive scientific applications, with an added twist. An architecture is designing that can retarget its resources dynamically based on run-time and...
- Tags: Utah State University, Load Balancing, High-performance, Computing, FPGA, Architecture, Leadership, Management
- White papers 2006-12-13
- High Volume Colour Image Processing With Massively Parallel Embedded Processors
- Oce Technologies B.V. develops products and services for the professional printing market, from small format office printers (up to A3) to wide format design department printers (up to A0+). Oce is investigating ways to reduce the rather long development trajectory for the printer's colour image processing subsystem, which is currently...
- Tags: Processor, Oce, Image Processing, FPGA, Oce Technologies B.V., Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
- White papers 2006-12-01
- A Reconfigurable and Programmable Gigabit Ethernet Network Interface Card
- RiceNIC is a reconfigurable and programmable Gigabit Ethernet network interface card NIC. It is an open platform meant for research and education into network interface design. The NIC is implemented on a commercial FPGA prototyping board that includes two Xilinx FPGAs, a Gigabit Ethernet interface, a PCI interface, and both...
- Tags: Network, Network Interface Card, Gigabit Ethernet, FPGA, Network Interface, RiceNIC, Networking
- White papers 2006-12-01
- On the Design of an FPGA-Based OFDM Modulator for IEEE 802.16-2004
- Current and future communication schemes tend to use OFDM systems in order to provide high baud rates and less inter symbol interference. Some examples are 802.11, 802.16, MC-CDMA, Digital Video Broadcasting, Wireless USB and Wireless Firewire. Trying to provide a solution to the new emerging devices, slow standard adoption and...
- Tags: IEEE, IEEE 802.16, FPGA, OFDM, WiMAX, Wireless
- White papers 2006-06-14
- A Network on Chip Based Gigabit Ethernet Router Implemented on an FPGA
- This paper shares the experiences gained from implementing an FPGA-based gigabit Ethernet router based on the SoCBUS network on chip architecture. The main reason for this project has been to test the SoCBUS architecture in a real design in order to investigate the performance and possible shortcomings. Another reason is...
- Tags: Router, Network, Gigabit Ethernet, FPGA, Chip, Network Technology, Networking
- White papers 2006-04-05
- Automatic Compilation Framework for Bloom Filter Based Intrusion Detection
- Virus detection at the router level is rapidly gaining in importance. Hardware-based implementations have the advantage of speed and hence can support a large throughput. This paper describes an FPGA-based implementation of the Bloom filter virus detection code that is compiled from the native C to VHDL and mapped onto...
- Tags: Intrusion Detection, Virus Detection, FPGA, Virus, University Of California, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security
- White papers 2006-03-03
- A 1,000-processor computer for $100K?
- A 1,000-processor computer for $100K?I believe the power consumed should be 120 KilowattsI believe the power consumed should be 120 KilowattsI believe the power consumed should be 120 KilowattsI believe the power consumed should be 120 Kilowatts for 12 racks if computers.I could use a few of theseWell at least...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Processors, FPGA, computer, CPU, processor, game, software
- Discussion threads 2006-02-24
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