Altera Showcases Its SoC Devices And Embedded Development Solutions At Embedded World 2013

Altera will demonstrate a variety of industrial and automotive applications to showcase the capability of SoC, and use its optimized software tools to show how embedded developers can reduce development and debug times.

Altera’s SoC devices integrate an ARM dual-core Cortex-A9 MPCore hard processor system with a 28 nm Cyclone V FPGA. Altera SoC devices allow embedded developers to reduce system power, system cost, and board space by integrating the HPS – consisting of processors, peripherals, and memory controller – with FPGA fabric using a high-bandwidth interconnect backbone. The combination of the HPS with Altera's 28 nm low-power FPGA fabric provides the performance and ecosystem of an applications-class ARM processor with the flexibility, low cost and low power consumption of Cyclone V FPGAs.

What: Embedded World 2013 Exhibition and Conference
When: Tuesday, February 26, to Thursday, February 28, 2012
Where: Hall 4, Booth 436, Messezentrum, Nurnberg, Germany

Demonstrations:

Altera's in-booth demonstrations showcasing its SoC and FPGA technologies include:

ARM DS-5 Altera Edition toolkit and SoC Operating System Support

•This demonstration will show how embedded designers can reduce their debug time by using the ARM Development Studio Altera Edition. When combined with the Altera SignalTap II Embedded Logic Analyzer, the DS-5 suite can remove the debug barrier between FPGA and the CPU, significantly simplifying the debug process.

•A Cyclone V SoC Development kit will be used to demonstrate Altera’s SoC device running the Linux operating system and others.

Build Flexible, Scalable Motor Control Systems

•Altera will demonstrate how its SoC device can deliver a complete Drive-on-a-Chip solution even for the most complex multi-axis motors. SoC delivers the flexibility to support an array of motors and various industrial networking standards, all from a common platform, reducing the customer’s overheads. Demonstrations will show how Altera’s new Motor Control Development Framework improves designer productivity by reducing system development time.

Simplify Industrial Ethernet Design with Softing

•Altera and Softing Industrial Automation GmbH will demonstrate how to support multiple Industrial Networking protocols on the same FPGA-based platform. This solution allows embedded developers to add Industrial Ethernet to their design as an out-of-the-box solution with no up-front license fees, no per-unit royalty reporting and no protracted negotiations.

Camera and Radar Sensor Fusion System

•A demonstration of Altera’s Advanced Driver Assistance System on a single chip will show how the flexibility of the FPGA can communicate with multiple sensor types (radar, laser and video), process the complex data and communicate the results to the rest of the vehicle.

Algorithmic Acceleration with OpenCL

•This demonstration will show designers how they can target FPGAs for algorithmic acceleration using OpenCL. Altera’s OpenCL compiler takes advantage of the parallel nature of the FPGA architecture to speed up systems, while simultaneously reducing power. We will also show how the Altera OpenCL design flow can significantly reduce time-to-market when compared to generating algorithms in traditional low-level hardware description language.