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.

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.

Application Architectures for FPGA-Based Image Processing

Ed Trexel & Brian Durwood from Impulse Accelerated Technologies discuss how computational-bound offloading, System-on-Chip integration and custom processes are driving software applications into FPGAs in this article from EE Times.

Video and imaging circuitry only changes one way. Higher resolution, higher frame rates, and lower power requirements (particularly for UAV applications) equates to higher capacity and complexity. This is driving some software developers to sample the technique of offloading processor functions to run in parallel in field programmable gate arrays (FPGA).

While not difficult, there can be resource, timing, and other issues that may frustrate a first-time user. New platforms and compilation techniques have made it easier (but not easy) to offload and reconfigure software code to run in hardware. This article is written by experienced professionals in the tools, IP, and platform side of FPGAs - it is aimed at software developers interested in sampling software-to-hardware compilation. It works to explain the architectural choices that need to be made and the HLL (high level language) tools approach to software-to-hardware compilation.

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About Impulse 
Founded in 2002, Impulse Accelerated Technologies is a Washington State based company specialising in high performance and high reliability solutions which accelerate compute bound software modules by offloading them to FPGA. With over a decade of experience Impulse offers sophisticated tools that work with Altera FPGA-based boards from BittWare, as well as Xilinx-based FPGA modules from Extreme Engineering and DAVE Embedded Systems.
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Impulse Accelerated Technologies is represented in the UK by Sarsen Technology Ltd. Please visit www.sarsen.net for full details of the tools and services on offer.

Sarsen Introduces Impulse Accelerated Technologies to the Product Line

Author - Laura

We are very excited to annouce that Impulse Accelerated Technologies has appointed Sarsen Technology Ltd as its FPGA Tools and Design Services distributor in the UK and Ireland.

Founded in 2002, Impulse Accelerated Technologies is a Washington State based company who specialise in high performance and high reliability solutions which accelerate compute bound software modules by offloading them to FPGA. Having been in the business for over a decade Impulse offers sophisticated tools that work with Altera FPGA-based boards from BittWare, as well as Xilinx-based FPGA modules from Extreme Engineering and DAVE Embedded Systems (and other well known manufacturers!)

About Impulse C

Impulse C is one of the most widely used software to FPGA hardware optimizing compilers. It has been used in over 2,000 designs by clients as diverse as NASA, Sony and Wall Street Banks. Impulse CoDeveloper is compatible with > 90% of FPGAs, and available processor cores. Impulse CoDeveloper also produces synthesizable VHDL or Verilog compatible with many other tools.


Impulse C enables developers to rapidly prototype offloading CPU bound applications by moving them to multiple streaming processes running in FPGA hardware and software.

C and VHDL can be combined in heterogeneous programming. Impulse C even outputs IEEE compliant VHDL to simulators from Mentor and Aldec.

Impulse also offers board interface packages which link to memory, I/O, processors and other hardware features from C. 


The new relationship is going to allow us to support customers with complete FPGA-based solutions in the financial trading, telecommunications infrastructure, power generation and Mil/Aero markets, providing not only hardware and software, but also training and support going forward.

Impulse has helped over 500 teams improve their application by refactoring and recompiling it to run faster, smaller or at lower power. For more information about the new relationship and how it could benefit your FPGA-based application please contact Sarsen Technology on +44 1672 511166, or email us - info@sarsen.net