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New DSP Products
C-to-FPGA Integration Accelerates Prototyping 10X. more>>
New DaVinci™ DM37x video processors from Texas Instruments. more>>
Analog Devices - JESD204A Data Converters Reduce Power and Board Space. more>>
RF Engines Feature rich IP core offers fast route to production. more>>
Analog Devices Introduces Data Converter with Dynamic Power Control. more>>
FC300 OFDM IP Core Helps OEM Customers Reduce Development Time. more>>
Octasic Introduces New Multi-Core DSP Device for Video. more>>
Actel Announces Power Management Solution for SmartFusion FPGA. more>>

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23rd - 25th June, London. more>>
UK Embedded Systems Event
7th May Cambridge, UK. more>>
DSP Theory Algorithms & Architectures
18th - 21st May, Glasgow, UK. more>>
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Spectrum Digital
Spectrum Digital JTAG Emulators give you better visibility into your system  more>>  
Blackhawk
Not all XDS510-class Emulators Measure Up to Blackhawk. High-speed USB 2.0, 1.8v target support, bus-powered, Code Composer Studio v4 ready, Optional Isolation Adapter. List price $995  more>>  
Danville Signal
Danville Signal's dspblok a9238/48 are two-channel high speed ADC boards based on Analog Devices' AD9238/48 A/D converters. The a9238/48 is ideal for direct conversion or IF sampling receiver applications.  more>>  
Analog Devices
New FireCracker Development Platform - Win a FireCracker Kit! Streamline embedded designs with the FireCracker Development Platform by Silica. A versatile reference design kit based on ADI's Blackfin Processor for A/V and Comms.  more>>  
Signum
NEW - Cortex-A8 and OMAP3 Debug Solution. JTAGjet-OMAP3 offers development and debug support for Texas Instruments OMAP34x, 35x and 36x applications processors.  more>>  
Innovative Integration
Soul of a New Machine - eInstrument-PC (Atom). Atom-based Low Power COM-Express CPU plus Dual XMC I/O Modules in a Compact Embedded PC Use eInstrument-PC.  more>>  
Red Rapids
The Channel Express product family offers multiple ADC and DAC options coupled to your choice of Virtex-5 FPGA. These XMC/PCIe cards feature an 8-lane PCI Express interface, 128 MB SDRAM, 32 MB SRAM, and on-board frequency synthesizer.  more>>  
Kane Computing
Two very fast DSP libraries are now available from Kane Computing Ltd: Hand coded NatureDSP Maths Library and hand coded NatureDSP Signal library for TI DSPs.  more>>  
 
DSP Articles
Sharpened FIR Filters by Matthew Donadio, Night Kitchen Interactive
What would you do in the following situation? Let's say you are diagnosing a DSP system problem in the field. You have your trusty laptop with your development system and an emulator. You figure out that there was a problem with the system specifications and a symmetric FIR filter in the software won't do the job; it needs reduced passband ripple, or maybe more stopband attenuation. You then realize you don't have any filter design software on the laptop, and the customer is getting angry. The answer is easy: You can take the existing filter and sharpen it.  more>>
Hybrid Floating Point Technique Yields 1.2 Gigasample Per Second 32 to 2048 point Floating Point FFT in a single FPGA by Ray Andraka, Andraka Consulting
Hardware Digital Signal Processing, especially hardware targeted to FPGAs, has traditionally been done using fixed point arithmetic, mainly due to the high cost associated with implementing floating point arithmetic. That cost comes in the form of increased circuit complexity. The increase circuit complexity usually also degrades maximum clock performance. Certain applications demand the dynamic range offered by floating point hardware, and yet require the speeds and circuit density usually associated with fixed point hardware. The Fourier transform is one DSP building block that frequently requires floating point dynamic range.  more>>

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