Automated Blood Collections Systems - VersaLogic Helps Make Giving Blood Today Even Easier!

The 14th June, (thats today!), sees countries around the world observe World Blood Donor Day.

Established in 2004, World Blood Donor Day helps to raise awareness of the need for safe blood products, and thanks all the very lovely voluntary unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood.

A generous donor giving the gift of blood

VersaLogic have been involved with a project to design and build an Automated Blood Collection System, which collects a combination of red blood cells, platelets and plasma from donors. These highly integrated, computerised systems minimise the need for human intervention, integrate key functions, and provide important data at a moment's notice, maximising the efficiency of blood centre operations.

Blood components separated by a centrifuge - Plasma, White Blood Cells and Platelets, and Red Blood Cells

Driving the FDA-approved system is a VersaLogic EBX single board computer that automates the collection process. The state-of-the-art technology uses cell separators that allow for the division of the various blood components in a high-speed centrifugal field while the device is still connected to the donor. This process allows collection of any combination of red blood cells, platelets, and plasma while returning unneeded components to the donor, allowing more frequent donations.

Automated Blood Collection System featuring boards from VersaLogic

Blood transfusions help save millions of lives every year. They can help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer with a better quality of life, and support complex medical and surgical procedures.

So why not do something amazing - give blood.

Automated Trader: BittWare delivers FPGA Boards for High Frequency Trading

Bittware's high performance Altera FPGA solutions for high frequency financial trading are featured in Automated Trader. BittWare, a provider of fully-validated, deployable Altera-based off-the-shelf FPGA and signal processing boards, has announced the First Customer Shipment (FCS) of the S5-PCIe to a technology leader in the finance and trading industry. The S5-PCIe is the first of a family of PCI Express slot-cards that BittWare is offering to the financial acceleration/HFT (High Frequency Trading) market. Providing CPU offload, high performance transceivers, and optional TOE (TCP/IP Offload Engine), the S5-PCIe is a PCIe-compliant deployable slot-card based on FPGA - Altera's Stratix® V.

Link to the Automated Trader web site: Automated Trader.

FPGA Solutions for Automated Financial Trading Market

Busy with lots of new opportunities for the BittWare S5-PCIe Altera Stratix V FPGA board in the automated financial trading market http://bit.ly/vL8e2v

Altera Stratix V FPGA Board for Automated Financial Trading Applications

The BittWare S5-PCIe is the industry's first Altera Stratix® V FPGA-based COTS board and is optimised for high performance computing military, telecommunications test equipment and financial trading applications. The Altera Stratix V FPGA has 3.8 billion transistors and is optimised for demanding computing applications. New project opportunities in the automated financial trading market is keeping us very busy this month.