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15-12-2014
Speed Up Firmware Development
| Submitter: | Andre Gunst |
| Description: | In the Digital and Embedded Signal Processing group we are constantly seeking ways to reduce the development time of digital systems and simplify the workflow in order to reduce the time to science. In this ongoing quest we are not the only ones. Recently we had a visit of two firmware engineers from SKA-SA (Jason Manley and Wesley New) to team up towards a common design flow for our firmware designs. They have been sitting together with Daniel, Eric and Hajee in one room for 1.5 week to agree on a way forward. Early next year we will plan another visit to keep the momentum at a high level. In the meanwhile monthly video conferences are organised to make sure we keep ourselves aligned. The digital systems we develop are targetted to large scale systems with a relative low power budget. The main focus area is processing on massive amounts of streaming data. Our vision is to have hardware and firmware modules ready on the shelf, such that these items can quickly be integrated in radio astronomical instruments when the need arises. With UniBoard and UniBoard^2 we are exactly working towards that vision. |
| Copyright: | ASTRON |
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