Planet FPGA

I will be giving a webinar on the topic of FPGA-based Motor Control on May 30th 2013. Make sure to register by click this link.

Meanwhile, if you have any particular question you would like to be addressed during the Q&A session, feel free to contact me.

I look forward to talk with you on May 30th !

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A private company located in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. They offer complete turnkey electronic design followed by a product manufacturing in any quantity.

ASIX - Electronic Design Service

They have a wide range of experience in electronics - programmable logic devices (Xilinx FPGAs and CPLDs), microcontrollers (PIC, AVR, ARM, ...), analog and digital electronics...etc.

They also manufacture some tools and instruments that are useful for R&D using Embedded Systems. These are like Programmers, Debugging Tools and USB Products.

Even their Discontinued products are very interesting...

PVK40 a feature-rich development board for 40-pin PIC


The board includes all the circuitry necessary for an in-depth study of most of the microcontroller on-chip peripherals and for experimenting with several external peripherals. This board will help you to become an expert in PIC MCU programming.

ASIX s.r.o.
Staropramenna 4 150 00 Prague Czech Republic

2012-12-21 My "FPGA design from scratch" blog is the top one programmable logic design article in EE Times in 2012.

2012-06-20 I have written a blog about MicroBlaze at All Programmable Planet.

2012-06-01 Here is my first post at All Programmable Planet.

2012-05-24 After all these years I am now a professional blogger at All Programmable Planet.

2012-05-08 Read about my new blog in EE Times.

FPGA is specific device that packs lots of power when used properly. They aren’t meant for general purpose use, but rather to do more specialized high resource demanding tasks like image, signal processing. If you see real potential of FPGA then give it a try. If you look for small and affordable FPGA development board – miniSpartan6 might fit your starting needs.

It is built using Spartan 6 FPGA chip from Xlink. Board comes with JTAG programmer which uses FT2232D chip for USB connection. Also you will find 32MB of RAM and 8MB of SPI flash memory. There are 36 programmable I/Os where already 8 LEDs and 4 DIP switches are connected for fast start.

ABSOLUTE QUALITY defines the Xilinx commitment to excellence.

by Jim Harrison The conference is in Santa Clara: Tuesday April 30, 2013 9am to 4:30pm Santa Clara Marriott Santa Clara, CA Analog Devices and event partners, Xilinx and MathWorks, invite you to a one-day conference featuring leading industry experts presenting complete signal processing solutions for a number of application areas chain, and system-ready solutions [...]

“I put together this Pong demo as an exercise to help get more familiar with Verilog, and gain some experience working with the Xilinx tools and the Spartan 3A FPGA starter kit. It was very slow going at first, but things are slowly beginning to make sense to me now. And hey, I’ve got Pong!!”

These multi output regulators saves you board space, provides you with ease of use, and has a higher reliability...

They offer Professional Manufacturing and Prototyping Services to Technology and Research firms in Biomedical, Wireless and Aerospace too.

Digicom Electronics - Manufacturing and Prototyping

Digicom offers a turn key electronics manufacturing solutions for small to medium sized production and prototype builds.

Their capabilities in Manufacturing Service - Precision in process control and quality monitoring, they have an infrastructure of a full line of 'state of the art' automated equipment and a Skilled Work Force.
Their Specialization include Custom Embedded Computers and complex cable assemblies. These include power, data, radio, video, and co-axial type harnesses


IBOB - Interconnect Break-out Board

This is a FPGA-based processing board for DSP. It has a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro 2VP50 FPGA, and is used in radio astronomy applications primarily for digitizing data, performing down conversion, filtering and FFT operations....

Digicom Electronics, Inc.
7799 Pardee Lane Oakland, CA 94621

“One of the great aspects of the logic is the speed and the full control of what happens at every single clock cycle….In this short post I will walk thru our current test setup with an FPGA, the Spartan 3E, controlling a 18-bit 7″ 800×480 TFT display.”

by Jim Harrison Altera has announced an upcoming FPGA product line base on flash memory and using a 55nm TSMC process. Vince Hu, VP of marketing, made this announcement along with a few others, at a Globalpress Connection event. The new FPGAs will not need external program load and will target medium density, low cost [...]

Here is a figure I did use in a recent presentation explaining why power electronics software is so hard to develop:

Hence, in order to create quality embedded software for power electronics applications, one must have advanced knowledge on :

• the load (motor type, dynamics, etc),
• the electrical source (topology of the power converter, devices technologies, etc.),
• the electronics, i.e. the device on which the software is going to run and also transducers that are going to interface with the device and the system,
• and embedded software development, of course.

Each of those topic is in itself a speciality and represent very different branches and cultures of electrical engineering (EE), i.e. ‘power’ vs ‘software’. Those cultures are so different that the following situation arises:

• the ‘power engineer’ doesn’t know about software development and often minimize its importance (this most of the time leads to bad software development practices which makes the situation worse),
• the ‘software engineer’ doesn’t know about power applications since this is way out of his traditionnal type of applications (web, internet, applicative) and neglect to consider that he is working with energy (i.e.  error is not leading to a blue screen but to a damaged system or to personel injury).

In a recent interview, I made an analogy with this situation naming embedded software for power electronics applications as the triathlon of electrical engineering. The best triathlete is not the perfect swimmer, the perfect cyclist or the perfect runner: he is the best at maximizing performance in those three sports. It is the same with embedded software for power electronics applications and this is why it is so hard.

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I am now a proud member of the editorial committee of the new IEEE IES ITeN :

“The IE Technology News (ITeN) is a step forward to widen the reach of the IES by a free on-line publication. This provides the extended abstracts of a few timely, thought provoking articles from IES transactions, magazine and conference proceedings periodically. In addition, it also aims to report important society news, announcement and summaries of IES-conferences, brief outline of interesting tutorials (from IES-conferences) and promote activities of Technical Committees.  ITeN is supported by an editorial board with domain-experts from academia and industries and Technical Committees (through Chairs and Vice-Chairs) of IES.”

Click here to access ITeN on IES website.

Who can nominate a Paper to ITeN?

• ALL Associate Editors of ITeN. This is the main job of AEs. They will check a potential paper (from TIE, TII, IEM and all IES sponsored conferences) in their areas and nominate a good one to the EIC,
• Advisors, all past officers, all major award winners of IES, all AEs of TIE, TII and IEM
• All General Chairs, Technical Program Chairs, Technical Track Chairs, SS Chairs and SS Organizers can nominate a conference paper
• Self-nomination is not allowed.

You would like to submit a paper to ITeN ? Please let me know !

 

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