Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd - New Image Processing Development Platform Empowers System Designers

new FPGA and DSP co-design belvedere for developing angel processing equipment, the SMT339Store this angel in big sizeA new FPGA and DSP co-design belvedere for developing angel processing equipment, the SMT339, has been launched by Sundance Multiprocessor Systems. At the amount of the new axle are the lightning fast Texas Instruments (TI) TMS320DM642 DSP-based agenda media processor and Xilinx Virtex-4 FX-60 FPGA.

TI’s TMS320DM642 processor has been distinctively advised to optimise angel processing achievement with a beauteous adequacy of 5760MIPS at a alarm amount of 720MHz. The Xilinx Virtex-4 FX-60 FPGA boasts 622Mbps to 10.3125Gbps consecutive transceivers for accelerated consecutive input/output. The huge processing ability of the FPGA speeds functions such as colour amplitude about-face (CSC) and detached cosine transforms (DCT), while Fast Fourier Transforms (FFT) and coil can be implemented after application any of the DSP’s resources. Boosting achievement there is 16MB of fast ZBTRAM and 128MB DSP SDRAM.

"Sundance DSP is a admired accomplice of Xilinx and accept a able clue almanac of carrying top achievement development platforms.  The SMT339 seems able-bodied positioned to accompaniment the portfolio with a belvedere that demonstrates the affecting achievement addition that FPGAs accompany to a co-processing environment," enthused, Mark Oliver, business administrator multimedia video and imaging, of Xilinx’s DSP division.

Image processing is an capital allotment of accustomed life. At home, HD TV, alternate gaming and media alive is now common. In hospital, scanning accessories is carrying burning and added accurate images for doctors. In industry, simulators of all kinds accredit circuitous and generally chancy tasks to be accomplished in artificially created worlds. Security systems from iris scanning to automated amount bowl acceptance all depend on angel capture, processing and interpretation. Many applications aswell await on the adeptness to accomplish top abstracts compression ante defined by H.264 and MPEG-4, the accustomed backup for the busy MPEG-2 standard.

“In designing the SMT339, we accept listened anxiously to our customers: arrangement engineers, advisers and scientists absorbed in imaging systems and eyes – alive in fields as assorted as aerospace, medical, security, military, broadcasting and video editing. They all allotment a accepted charge for a fast DSP/FPGA architecture belvedere tailored to the demands of angel processing,” commented Sundance systems administrator Justin Wheatley.

The SMT339 aswell appearance a Phillips SAA7109AE/SAA7108AE video decoder/encoder. This accepts a lot of PAL and NTSC standards and can achievement candy images in PAL/NTSC or VGA (1280x1024, or HD TV Y/Pb/Pr).

Software abutment is from TI’s Code Composer Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and 3L's Diamond FPGA. These acquiesce SMT339 users to quick-start their development of cutting-edge angel processing functions with abide candy angel output. The altercation associated with amalgam industry-leading accouterments is eliminated.

“Sundance, a affiliate of the TI DSP Third Party Network, continues to action high-quality solutions based on TI’s processor and accoutrement technology,” commented Rich Faust, common DSP third affair arrangement manager. “Sundance’s video and imaging ability accompanying with the believability of TI’s high-performance processors will facilitate addition above a array of imaging applications.”

The SMT339 bore can be acquainted into a accepted individual amplitude TIM aperture and can be accessed by either a accepted ComPort or RSL interface. The bore can aswell run stand-alone – authoritative it an ideal belvedere for anchored applications.

As a powerful, able COTS angel processing development platform, the SMT339 is unrivalled and is capital for the conception of beat agenda imaging products. Designers absent abstruse data should appointment www.sundance.com/smt339.

More advice in UK:
Sebastien Maury, DSP System Analyst, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd
Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS
Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168
E-mail: CIPR0446@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

More advice in USA:
Dr Nory Nakhaee, Sundance Digital Signal Processing Inc.
4790 Caughlin Parkway #233, Reno, NV 89509-0907, USA
Tel. (775) 827 3103 Fax. (775) 827 3664
E-mail: CIPR0446@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

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Sebastien Maury, DSP System Analyst, Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd
Chiltern House, Waterside, CHESHAM, Bucks HP5 1PS
Tel. +44 (0)1494 792421 Fax. +44 (0)1494 793168
E-mail: CIPR0446@sundance.com Web: www.sundance.com

Designers and manufacturers of wireless infrastructures, digital communications, automated arresting processing, sonar/radar, software authentic radio (SDR), multimedia and telecommunications, all depend on the adaptability of Sundance’s alloyed DSP+FPGA platforms and systems to get their articles to bazaar – FAST!