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* Xilinx Launches New Low-Cost Spartan DSP Series
* Tiny 24-Bit, I2C 4-Channel ADC Includes High-Accuracy Temperature Sensor
*   BittWare and CorEdge Networks Announce Partnership
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Approximation ADC from Analog Devices Simplifies Motor Contol Design
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Highly-Configurable Codec from TI Enables Independent Converter Sampling.
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Spectrum Digital and Temento Partner to Release New Boundary Scan Test
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Synplicity Announces Synplify DSP ASIC Edition
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Green Hills Software Announce Breakthrough in Software Defined Radio.
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New High Performance Dual and Quad ADC from TI .
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Blackhawk’s USB560BP JTAG Emulator for TI DSP’s is not only the most popular and preferred USB emulator, but also the first XDS560-class device that requires NO power supply and weighs under 5 ounces. Special Offer.  more>>   

  Announcing Synplify® DSP ASIC Edition from Synplicity
Capture DSP algorithm designs, explore implementation architectures, and target them to either FPGA or ASIC technology.
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NEW! X5-400m PCI Express XMC Module with Virtex5 FPGA, two 400 MSPS, 14-bit A/Ds & DACs & 1GB Memory
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  Spectrum Digital announces the new XDS560R USB JTAG Emulator. This advanced emulator, selling for $ 2499.00 in North America, supports TI DavinciTM, OMAP, C6xxx, C5xxx, F28xx, and TMS470 ARM processors. more>>
 
 

Intl. Conference on
Home Access Points &
Femtocells


London, UK: 3rd - 5th July '07

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DaVinci™ Technology Seminars Europe & Israel Choose from two new, one-day technical seminars and learn how to use DaVinci technology to speed your success in video system design in a Linux/ARM or DSP environment. more>>

Understanding CIC Compensation Filters - by Altera


The cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter is a class of hardware-efficient linear phase finite impulse response (FIR) digital filters. CIC filters achieve sampling rate decrease (decimation) and sampling rate increase (interpolation) without using multipliers.

A CIC filter consists of an equal number of stages of ideal integrator filters and comb filters. Its frequency response may be tuned by selecting the appropriate number of cascaded integrator and comb filter pairs. The highly symmetric structure of a CIC filter allows efficient implementation in hardware. However, the disadvantage of a CIC filter is that its pass band is not flat, which is undesirable in many applications. Fortunately,
this problem can be alleviated by a compensation filter.
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Designing a 256-Channel Digital Downconverter - by Pentek

As Software-Defined Radio technology further penetrates large communication systems for battlefield military radio networks, commercial wireless systems, manned and unmanned aerial vehicles, and monitoring facilities for SIGINT and COMINT, the need to accommodate a large number of agile frequency channels for radio receivers is quite apparent.

In each of these applications, the same critical metrics apply: size, weight, power, and cost for each receiver channel. Traditional Digital Downconverter (DDC) ASIC devices feature only one to four channels per chip, and straightforward implementations of DDCs in FPGAs consume a significant percentage of available resources. A new approach to DDC design takes advantage of the parallelism of FPGAs to create a highly efficient architecture for multichannel receivers.
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