The TMS320C6474-DSP Module is an extension module for the FFP Basic+ Board. It consists of two DSP add-on boards (type Main and type Extension), which are designed for use on a single extension slot of the FFP Basic+ Board. more
The 2GSPlus DAC Module is designed for D/A conversion from 1GSamples up to 4GSamples. The board includes four Maxim D/A converter chips MAX19692 or MAX19693 and a Xilinx CPLD chip XC2C512 for configuration and controlling of the connected analog RF circuits. The complete clock generation and power supply are integrated on board. The 2GSPlus DAC Module is designed to operate with the FPGA board FFP Basic+, but it can also be used standalone. more
The 2GSPlus ADC Module is designed for A/D conversion from 1GSamples up to 3GSamples. The board includes four National Semiconductor A/D converter chips ADC08300 and a Xilinx CPLD chip XC2C512 for configuration and control of the connected analog RF circuits. The complete clock generation and power supply is integrated on board. The 2GSPlus ADC Module is designed to work with IAF FPGA board FFP Basic+, but it also can operates standalone. more
The Terahertz Communication Lab (www.tcl.tu-bs.de) of the Technical University Braunschweig and IAF Institute for applied radio system technology announce their cooperation on the area of future wireless communication.
In the project Qstream promoted by the Ferderal Ministry of Economy and Technology will be examined new procedures for ultra-fast wireless data transmitting. The cooparation is embedded in an european project within the research and development program MEDEA+. Renowned european Universities take part and enterprises from the consumer electronics, like NXP, Thomson or STMicroelectronics. That project is also a cooperation within the association TELIAISON (www.teliaison.de). This is a consortium of seven middle-class enterprises from the region southeast Lower Saxony, the Technical University Braunschweig and the University of Applied Science Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel. It promoted young researchers and human recources development.
The wireless data communication gained in the last years enormously significance. It offers a high degree of flexibility and allows application, those integrated in daily life. Nevertheless, the need in speed soon exceeds the hundredfold of that what today´s systems are able to perform like WLAN (IEEE 802.11g) or Bluetooth (IEEE 802.15.1). To reach this aim, new wireless communication system become necessary. The system, which is developed within Qstream, will work in a frequency response about 60 GHz and offer a range of about 10 metres. With such a 60-GHz-Radio system, e. g., the contents of a DVD are able to be transferred within 15 seconds, what to today´s systems would last more than 15 minutes. Moreover, the 60-GHz-radio technology is valid as the only one, which allows the wireless transmission of uncompressed video material (HDTV) is possible.
Challenges in this project are among other things the high data rate of the transferred signals and the condition of 60-GHz-Signal, like a beam of light very strongly bundled up is sent out. Both makes very high demands for the used harware and the signal processing. In the process of the project a hardware demonstrator becomes in Braunschweig conceived and built up, that for the first time a robust data communication with a speed of some Gbps in 60-GHz-frequency band will make possible. Intelligent antennas come to the employment, which adapt automatically to the environment. In case of one insufficient connecting quality, released e.g. by persons between transmitters and receivers, align themselves these antennas automatically to an alternenative transmission path and ensure so an undisturbed connection without interruption.
With the developed technology it becomes possible to transfer high-resolution video signals to HDTV-screens. Further future applications could be e.g. download stations similarly today´s video bars, at those e.g. a complete DVD or Blu-Ray Disc could be downloaded. In addition a very fast transmission of high data volumes between PCs and other electronic devices becomes possible.
The Terahertz Communications Lab (TCL) is an union of four research groupings at the Technical Unitversity of Braunschweig and the Department for Electromagnetic Fields on the Physically Technical Federal Institution (PTB), likewise resident in Braunschweig. Intention of this union is it, to open the up to now unused THz-Frequency range for wireless communication.
At the Qstream – project two groups of the TCL are involved. The Department for Portable Radio Systems at Institute for Communications Technology under the direction of Professor Dr. Jörg Schöbel, is occupied with channel- and propagation modelling and measurements and with the system design of future communication systems. In the Department for Microwave Engineering at the Institute for High-Frequency Engineering under the direction of Professor Dr. Jörg Schöbel antennas and hardware components become developed and realised up to a complete demonstrator.
The realisation of digital communication systems with high data rates and digital broadcasting forms the main focus of the activities of the Institute for applied radio system technoloy (IAF) in Braunschweig. The offered services cover system conception and simulation, system design and implementation in hardware near programming languages as well as development, production and test of hardware components. IAF also offers a modular conception of a FPGA Building Set for the realisation of a various range of applications in the area of digital signal processing. The FPGA building set is based upon the powerful FPGA mainboard which could be completed by a range of pluggable add-on boards with additional functionality.
Lots of realisation options with highest complexity are given from the compact Virtex4 Board , obtainable equipped with a V4FX60 or respectively a V4FX100 device. Therefore a range of useful extensions has been developed, allowing most individual implementations. One of them is the Ethernet Phy Board , which realises up to two gigabit Ethernet connections. Expand the memory of the Virtex4 with the DDR-QDR RAM Board containing 36MBit QDRII and 1Gbit DDRII memory.
IAF presents at the Mobile World Congress 2008 the new designed FFP Basic+. It offers more resources, new components and enhanced interfaces to be used as platform for modern system development.
Equipped with the largest Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs high sophisticated designs can be realised. New high-speed connectors with a bandwidth of up to 1 GHz and 6 slots for ADD-On modules makes the implement of challenging projects feasible. For better controlling a MMC card and advanced Hardware-in the-Loop features offers more flexibility.
Just save your valuable time and use the features of the new FFP Basic+.
12. - 15. February 2007
The 3GSM World Congress promises to be an outstanding event with an estimated attendance of 57, 000 people. The Congress combines the world’s largest exhibition for the mobile industry, with a cutting edge conference featuring the most prominent Chief Executives from the mobile industry. At this event the industry defines its future and generates business!
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Stand Number: 2J08
Hall No: 2-0
The new Virtex4 FX60 Board combines highest functionality on smallest space. With only 2.2x4.9 inches small enough to be mounted on FFP Basic, the board can also be used stand-alone. In combination with an optional Ethernet PHY board up to two gigabit Ethernet connections at the same time may be realized. This can be done using serial multi gigabit transceiver or via parallel GMII. Furthermore the board can be equipped with a memory extension board using the extension connectors mounted on the top. Only single + 3.3V voltage supply needed.
IAF extends functional range of FFP Basic with “Hardware in the loop” for seamless integration in application software via USB. The original FPGA Design can be easily validated and demonstrated in a flexible and time efficient way.
The DSP Add-On Module is the ideal completion for the FPGA platform FFP Basic. It is eminently suited for implementation of complex algorithms.
There are two different types of the DSP-Add-on-Module available (Typ A, Typ B). Both types have the same features and can be use on one or on different extension slots of the FPGA platform FFP Basic .
Keyfeature of the DSP-Add-on-Modules is the digital signal processor TMS320C6713 from Texas Instruments with 300 MHz clock frequency.
The modules afford the communication between DSP and the integrated memory-devices (Flash EPROM and SRAM) as well as the communication between DSP and the FFP-Basic-Board.
The modules have an integrated voltage conversion so that only a single external +3.3 V power supply is required. The modules also enclose an integrated clock generation for the DSP.
The FPGA Prototyping Board FFP Basic is well-approved and used in several projects with demand on highly sophisticated signal processing. It builds the basis of our modular extendable FPGA building set. The building set is completed with pluggable add-on boards which provide various functionalities. The hardware modules have been mainly developed for designing prototyping systems for new wireless standards like MIMO OFDM.
Several new Add-on Boards are shortly available:
Furthermore we are offering development of customer specific Add-on Boards on request.
The FPGA building set is a very powerful and reliable basis for the implementation of the desired functionality. The hardware has been tested carefully under practical conditions. Hence the time consuming trouble shooting at the interface between hardware and firmware / software can be avoided.
1 Gbit/s-Mobile Communication System on 3GSM World Congress
The Mobile Communication System which has in December 2004 achieved the record-setting data rate of 1 GBit/s will be publicly demonstrated from February, 14th to 17th on the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. The 3GSM World Congress and the associated exhibition are belonging to the most important events of the mobile sector, worldwide.
The research system has been developed in a cooperation of Siemens, Heinrich-Hertz-Institute and IAF. The modem base on broadband-OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) combined wirth MIMO (intelligent multiple-antenna techniques). The system is continuously enhanced. Since its first presentation it has been upgraded to 3 transmit and 5 receive antennas to get an improved transmission reliability.
Siemens AG, IAF GmbH and HHI Heinrich-Hertz-Institute present 1 Gbit/s-Mobile Communication System
For the first time, data were transferred in real time via mobile communication at a speed of 1Gbit/s. In order to achieve this record-setting speed, an “intelligent antenna system” (MIMO) consisting of three transmitting and four receiving antennas is combined with Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM). Researchers consider these technologies, which are especially efficient at using the frequency band, to be highly promising modules for the mobile communication generation beyond W-CDMA/UMTS. The realisation bases on the combination of the newest algorithms for signal-processing and on a powerful hardware platform.
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Top speed for mobile network of up to 360 megabits per second
At the “Mobile Internet 2010″ forum in Königswinter, held by the German Ministry of Education and Research on September 14th and 15th, Siemens and IAF presented an OFDM Modem. On a test system data rates of up to 360 megabits per second (Mbps) were transmitted in wireless mode. To achieve these high data rates for the first time within large coverage areas, the OFDM transmission technique has been combined with the Multi-Hop-technology. Wireless, but fixed multi-hop stations forward the signal from cell to cell, also around ostacles, down to the terminal device when the direct link between base station and mobile terminal is interrupted.
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IAF has developed a new FPGA Prototyping Board using powerful Xilinx Virtex II Pro chips! “more”
EEEfCOM
Workshop and Table-Top-Exhibition
located in Ulm, Germany, 2004, May 26.-27.
High-frequency and microwave systems components and modules
www.gerotron.de
Ekompass Workshop
Development platforms for complex applied systems and circuits
Located in Hannover (Germany) 2004, May 18. + 19.
www.edacentrum.de