FPGA-Based Products Highlight Altera Performance Benefits at SDR Forum

FPGA-Based Products Highlight Altera Performance Benefits at SDR Forum




  What:   At the SDR Forum, Altera will demonstrate how the hardware
          flexibility provided by programmable logic is key to delivering
          the performance required by software-defined radio (SDR) products.
          As an example, General Dynamics Decision Systems' software-defined
          Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) radio is equipped with Altera
          FPGAs.  The CSAR radio is a small, hand-held transceiver that has
          become the worldwide standard for Combat Search and Rescue
          communications.  Forum attendees can further explore Altera
          FPGA-based SDR solutions by visiting General Dynamics Decision
          Systems' booth (booth #23), that will feature the CSAR radio and
          the US Navy's Digital Modular Radio (DMR), which is also powered
          by Altera FPGAs.

          Altera and General Dynamics Decisions Systems will jointly present
          a paper on developing FPGA cores for SDR, and Altera will present
          a separate paper on using FPGA co-processors in SDR architectures.
          Details on these paper presentations are below.

          -- Synthesizing FPGA Cores for Software-Defined Radio
             Advances in integrated digital signal processing (DSP)
             functions within FPGA architectures now exceed the performance
             that can be achieved with stand-alone DSP processors.  This
             paper describes an overall SDR design that implements DSP core
             functions by applying the parameterizable requirements that
             generate the specific functions for various communications
             waveforms.  The integration process, command and control
             interfaces, data structures, and signal flow of such an
             implementation are all detailed.  It will be presented in:

             Poster Session #10
             Nov. 19, 2003
             11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

          -- Using FPGA Co-Processors in Software-Defined Radio System
             Architectures
             SDR systems require flexibility, long life-cycles, low cost and
             low power requirements.  This paper describes an SDR
             architecture based on a combination of processors and FPGA
             co-processors and details the benefits of this approach, which
             delivers a fully programmable architecture capable of providing
             the high signal-processing performance and other capabilities
             required for an optimal SDR system design.  It will be
             presented in:

             Poster Session #9
             Nov. 18, 2003
             11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

  When:   SDR Forum 2003, Nov. 17-19, 2003

  Where:  Booth #28
          Disney's Contemporary Resort
          Orlando, Fla.



For additional information, visit:
http://www.altera.com/education/events/northamerica/evt-
events_northamerica.html

  Media Contacts:  Martin S. Won
                   Altera Corporation
                   408-544-6397
                   



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