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Applications
Synthetic Aperture Radar, Phased Array Radar, Software Defined
Radio, Sonar, and signal intelligence such as SIGINT, COMINT, and
ELINT are each primary applications that were specifically targeted
from the outset of CoSine’s initial architectural design phase.
Other related applications involve masking and
lithography for semiconductor equipment, data and file system
compression for networked storage, image rendering for medical
tomography, explosive detection systems, seismic processing and
energy exploration.
FPGA based digital signal processing is particularly
relevant to all of these applications because it provides the
ability to perform multiple functions in parallel that would
otherwise be executed in a serial mode on a conventional DSP or
embedded processor. Algorithms for applications such as signal
detection, smart antennas or RF baseband processing are often well
suited to take advantage of internal FPGA resources such as
multiply/accumulators, RAM, FIFO’s and look up tables (LUT’s).
For quicker development time at the cost of an
optimally efficient logic implementation, CoSine also supports the
use of MATLAB in combination with Simulink and Xilinx System
Generator. As a high level development tool, MATLAB provides
modeling and analysis of DSP algorithms. Through the use of
Simulink and System Generator, these algorithms can be mapped into
VHDL functions in CoSine’s UPL block.
Combining CoSine
FPGA processing nodes with conventional DSP nodes is an effective
overall solution to distributed multi-processor systems. While
state machine processing is implemented in CoSine’s UPL block, the
two internal CoSine embedded PowerPC’s can be tasked with hosting
device drivers, performing message passing and handling interrupts.
This further offloads conventional, power hungry DSP’s, freeing them
for higher level analysis and intelligent, decision based
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By offloading these computationally intensive
functions from conventional DSP’s, overall system performance can be
increased while reducing total board count, total power consumption
and system cost.
Product Offerings
In addition to the ATCA form factor of the MM-333D development
station, CoSine is being offered on Othello carriers for VxS VITA 41
and VITA 46. CoSine and Othello carriers are a perfect match that
combined, provide one of the most powerful front end solutions
available for next-generation signal processing equipment. |
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MM-15x0: VxS VITA 41 form factor. Two instances of CoSine, each
with a dedicated companion device, V-4 SX55 or LX160. On-board 8
port X-bar switch and VME320 interface on P1. Two independent
mezzanine sites, each capable of supporting a 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X
PMC or Serial RapidIO x4 XMC. Two independent Serial RapidIO x4
connections to VxS P0. 14 independent memory arrays with total
bandwidth of over 40GB/s.
MM-16x0: VITA 46 form factor. Two instances of CoSine, each with
a dedicated companion device, V-4 SX55 or LX160. On-board 8 port
X-bar switch and VME320 interface on P1. Two mezzanine sites, each
capable of supporting a 64-bit/133MHz PCI-X PMC or Serial Rapid IO
x4 XMC. Four independent Serial RapidIO x4 connections to VITA 46
MGT backplane connector. 14 independent memory arrays with total
bandwidth of over 40GB/s.
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