Altera highlights their 2014 embedded World offering

At the show and in collaboration with Exor International, Altera will demonstrate an implementation of an integrated PLC and a HMI system running on a single 28 nm Altera Cyclone V SoC. The software involved in the demonstration is provided by Exor International and 3S-Smart Software Solutions, and will show an integrated solution combining embedded control software and graphics libraries.

Further to this, a vision processing demonstration will also be shown at Altera's booth. The demonstartion will use FPGA based processing acceleration logic, created using OpenCL, to highlight the performance improvement an FPGA-based design can deliver for video object detection and automotive driver assistance applications.

Altera will also highlight the use of SoC FPGAs in automated control systems and the flexibility of FPGA devices. Together with their partner Enterpoint, the demonstration will showcase the use of Enterpoint’s off the shelf SoC-based development boards in a prize grab game machine. Also on the booth will be a demonstration of the ARM DS-5 Altera edition tool suite. This tool suite, complete with FPGA adaptive debug features and supporting all of Altera’s SoC devices, will be demonstrated on Linux and bare metal. Altera will also be showing many operating systems, including Linux, VxWorks, QNX and Windows Compact Embedded 7 running on the ARM processor inside the Cyclone V SoC devices.