BittWare's Brand New PCIe Card Based on the Altera Arria® V FPGA

Author - Laura Biddiscombe

BittWare’s A5-PCIe-L (A5PL) is a low-profile PCIe x8 card based on the Altera Arria V GZ FPGA.

Up to 8 GBytes of on-board memory includes DDR3, QDRII/II+, or RLDRAM3. Two front-panel QSFP+ cages allow two 40GigE or eight 10GigE interfaces. The A5PL also features a Board Management Controller (BMC) for advanced system monitoring, which greatly simplifies platform management. All of these features combine to make the A5PL a versatile and efficient solution for network processing, security, broadcast, and signals intelligence applications.

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BittWare offers complete software support for the A5PL with its BittWorks II software tools and FPGA Development Kit. Designed to make developing and debugging applications for BittWare’s boards easy and efficient, the software provides a collection of libraries and applications and FPGA components that provide preconfigured physical interfaces, infrastructure, and examples, drastically cutting development time and easily integrating into existing FPGA development environments.

Working example projects are available for each board which illustrate how to move data between the board’s different interfaces. Supported interfaces include DDR3, DDR2, QDR2/+, PCIe, 10GigE, LVDS, SerDes, and Double Data Rate I/O. All example projects are available on BittWare’s Developer Site.

For more information please contact  Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or visit www.sarsen.net.

DAVE Embedded Systems Now ISO 13485 Certified for Medical Applications

Author: Laura Biddiscombe

We are pleased to share some exciting news with you - DAVE Embedded Systems has just been certified ISO 13485.

ISO 13485 2003 is the quality management standard for medical devices which specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that consistently meet both customer requirements and regulatory requirements applicable to medical devices and related services.

The ISO 13485 standard was developed to facilitate harmonized medical device regulatory requirements for quality management systems. In Europe, ISO 13485 (or EN ISO 13485) is seen as the standard for the medical device industry. Based on the ISO 9001 standard, ISO 13485 was first introduced in Europe in 1996. Although ISO 13485 certification is voluntary, achieving it allows you to meet the quality system requirements of various medical directives with much less difficulty.

Download the DAVE Embedded Systems ISO 13485 declaration in PDF format - DOWNLOAD

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The DIVA  is a CPU module based on the Texas Instruments "Sitara" AM335x Cortex-A8 application processor. It is built with SO-DIMM 204 pin form factor and it offers lots of graphics, processing, peripherals and industrial interface options, allowing customer to implement cost-effective designs.

• ARM Cortex-A8 architecture @ up to 720 MHz
• NEON Multimedia Coprocessor and PowerVR® SGX Graphics Engine
• Dual Programmable Real-Time Unit and Industrial Communication Subsystem
• Crypto Hardware Accelerator
• Interfaces including Dual CAN and Ethernet

Download DIVA Datasheet 
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