DSP Magazine

Solutions for High-Performance Signal Processing Designs
Issue 2 : Optimizing DSP System Designs

Welcome

• High-Performance DSP – Executing to Plan
  Editorial by Omid Tahernia, Vice President and General Manager, DSP DIvision.

Viewpoint

• FPGAs for DSP: A Fast-Growing Market
  A survey by Forward Concepts validates the increasing role of FPGAs in DSP applications.

Multimedia, Video, and Imaging

• Implementing Bluetooth CVSD Codec on an FPGA
  Using a Xilinx MAC FIR filter core reduces the design time.
• Developing Video IP in a Fully Integrated Design Environment
  The Video Starter Kit is an ideal prototyping platform for multimedia, video, and imaging.
• Accelerate Video DSP Co-Processing Designs
  Design, develop, and test your algorithms with the Video Virtual Socket Adapter.

Wireless

• The Role of FPGAs in Digital Radio Subsystems
  Digital techniques for reducing analog costs.
• Rapid Prototyping and Verification of MIMO Systems
  A practical approach to system implementation using MATLAB and Virtex™-4 FPGAs.

Aerospace and Defense

• Making the Adaptivity of SDR and Cognitive Radio Affordable
  Going beyond flexibility to adaptivity in FPGAs.
• The Design of an FPGA-Based MIMO Transceiver for Wi-Fi
  We implemented a Virtex-based layered space time algorithm on a Laval University 802.11 MIMO testbed.
• Floating- to Fixed-Point Conversion of MATLAB Algorithms Targeting FPGAs
  Accelerating fixed-point model generation and verification using the AccelDSP Synthesis tool.

Customer Success

• BAE Systems Proves the Advantages of Model-Based Design
  BAE Systems achieved an 80% reduction in software-defined radio development time with The MathWorks and Xilinx tools.

General Purpose

• Achieving High-Bandwidth DSP Simulations Using Ethernet Hardware-in-the-Loop
  System Generator v8.1 offers a new Gigabit Ethernet hardware-in-the-loop interface that enables high-bandwidth co-simulation using the Xilinx ML402 FPGA platform.
• Hardware DSP Analysis Techniques Using the Z-Transform
  Harness the power of the Virtex-4 DSP48 architecture without guesswork.
• Implementing Optimal Filters Quickly
  You can obtain high performance with minimal resources in Virtex-4 FPGAs using the new FIR Compiler.
• Model-Based Design
  A methodology that addresses today’s growing challenges of designing embedded systems.
• Accelerating FFTs in Hardware Using a MicroBlaze Processor
  A simple FFT, generated as hardware from C language, illustrates how quickly a software concept can be taken to hardware and how little you need to know about FPGAs to use them for application acceleration.

Products

• Virtex-4 SX 35 XtremeDSP Development Kit for Digital Communication Applications
  Creating extremely high-performance digital communications signalprocessing solutions can present significant challenges in both design complexity and time to market.

Education

• DSP Design Flow
  The DSP Design Flow course provides the advanced tools and expertise you need to develop advanced, low-cost DSP designs.
• DSP Implementation Techniques for Xilinx FPGAs
  This course shows you how to take advantage of the features available in the Xilinx FPGA architecture, including the Virtex-4 FPGA, and describes how DSP algorithms can be implemented efficiently.
• Designing with Multi-Gigabit Serial I/O
  Learn how to employ RocketIO™ MGT serial transceivers in your Virtex-II Pro design.