Wednesday 18 November 2015

NMI Event - “Managing FPGA Projects: A Cat-herders Guide” - November 25th 2015



Sarsen Technology is taking part in the “Managing FPGA Projects: A Cat-herders Guide” event next week, organised by NMI.

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Agenda items include:

Leveraging ASIC and Software methodologies for FPGA design” – Leon Wildman – Aptcore

Managing complexity: version control basics for FPGA projects” – Sven-Erik Knop – Perforce

Teaching an old dog new tricks – The opportunities and resulting challenges of getting consumer silicon into safety critical systems” – Mike Allen, Jon Wright – GE Avionics

Management sans frontiers: Removing the roadblocks in FPGA projects” – Chris Higgs – Potential Ventures

Optimizing the HW/SW partition of complex embedded systems” – Simon George – Xilinx

Inspiring the next generation of FPGA engineers: Skills management in the long term” – Jeremy Bennett – Embecosm

Requirement driven development for safety-critical applications” – Alex Grove – FirstEDA/Aldec

Applying Agile Techniques to FPGA Projects” – Nigel Elliott – Mentor Graphics

. . . plus an open discussion to share hints and best practices.


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Sarsen will be showcasing Altera and Xilinx FPGA-based hardware from BittWare, Extreme Engineering and DAVE Embedded Systems, as well as C to FPGA software for Xilinx and Altera FPGAs from Impulse Accelerated.

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Registration is now open, so please join us to learn some new tips, tricks and “agile” methods that teams are using in order to keep on top of ever-more complex FPGA designs.




Wednesday 4 November 2015

11 Reasons to Consider Trenton Systems for Your Next High Performance Computing Solution

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