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1.76Gb/s MSK Baseband Test Signal Generator
- Designed as test and demo platform for customer's RFIC
- Modular Verilog code may be used as basis for end-customer designs
- Based on low-cost Xilinx Spartan FPGA
- Custom FMC adapter card with filters & attenuators designed, laid-out, fabricated & assembled by StarBoard
- Provides quadrature I & Q references in addition to quadrature data signals
- Data timing adjustable at build time to within ~40ps to account for filter delays
- Data pattern selectable between LFSR pseudo-random sequence and several simpler patterns
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FPGA Logic, Windows Driver, and Software Libraries for PCIe/104 FPGA Card
- Scatter/gather DMA engine for high sustained bandwidth
- User logic interfaces to any number of simple streaming channels
- Independent FIFOs for each channel and each direction
- Based on Xilinx Virtex-5 LX FPGA
- Simple block-based API on host
- Host code has independent access to each user-FIFO on the FPGA
- Drivers for XP, Vista, Win7, Server-2003, Server-2008, all 32bit or 64bit
- Host can download new FPGA configurations as needed, without rebooting
- Highly customizable to match user logic requirements
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Custom 800V Discrete Linear Amplifier
- Class-B for very low quiescent power, 1/15 the power of some competing integrated solutions
- Intended for large capacitive loads such as CILAS deformable mirrors
- Adjustable current limit so as not to exceed actuator slew-rate limits
- Output short-circuit tolerant (depending on current-limit setting)
- Single current-limit setting may be shared among many independent channels
- Low crossover distortion
- Announced at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes+Instrumentation, July 2012, Amsterdam
- Low cost compared to integrated modules
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140-channel High-Speed HV MEMS Driver System
- Evolution of 140-channel USB-based Driver (below)
- 2.5Gb/s Single-lane Serial Interface through Infiniband-style connector
- Uses Altera ArriaGX FPGA
- Serial interface compatible with Xilinx' Aurora Core
- >400kHz Update Rate
- <4usec latency including serial link, 1st-word in to last DAC updated
- Schematic, Firmware, and Test pattern Generator designed by StarBoard
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High-connectivity DSP/FPGA Board
- TIM-format Module
- 1GHz TI DSP
- 64b Memory Interface
- Large FPGA
- 2x S-ATA Interfaces
- Schematic and PCB redesign of existing board to add features
- Developed all manufacturing and acceptance tests
- Developed standard FPGA code
- Assembly managed by StarBoard
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32-channel High-Voltage MEMS Driver System
- Designed Custom Adjustable Low-cost 300V DC/DC Converter
- High-speed USB Interface
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Custom FPGA IP Developments (many projects)
- Multi-channel FFT with high-resolution FIR prefilter
- Custom multi-pulse auto-correlation & averaging processing for LIDAR
- Serial-Front-Panel Data Port Module
- New family of intra-board and inter-board FPGA/DSP communications channels
- Most modules are parameterized to facilitate reuse
- Development in VHDL or Verilog
- Can support any Xilinx or Altera FPGAs: Spartan, Virtex, Cyclone, Arria, Stratix
- Testbenches always included
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140-channel High-Voltage MEMS Driver System
- High-speed USB 2.0 interface to host PC
- Provided schematic design, FPGA development, initial unit bringup
- Uses custom HVA modules (below)
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Custom Low-cost High-voltage Amplifier
- 32 channels per small plug-in card
- 300V range
- 30kHz bandwidth
- Stable with pure-capacitive load
- Much cheaper alternative to integrated multi-channel HVAs
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Data interface board for 4k-channel high-voltage MEMS driver
- Fast parallel interface to host PC
- Dual FPGAs format data for up to 128 multi-channel DACs
- Configurable for different array sizes & system configurations
- Auxiliary USB control/data interface
- Provided schematic design, FPGA development, PCB layout, and microcontroller monitor code
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Multi-Sensor USB Camera System
- Used for portable biometrics application
- Turn-key project from initial specification to delivery of complete board sets and software
- Supports 2 or 3 CMOS Mono & Color Sensors with high-speed serial data interface
- Processing & data handling provided by Altera FPGA
- USB High Speed interface to Host PC
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High-throughput DSP/FPGA Board
- Quick-turn redesign of existing non-functional board
- PMC-format Module
- Dual TI 1GHz DSPs
- Xilinx Virtex2-Pro FPGA
- 64bit 66MHz PCI interface
- 16 lanes of Multi-Gigabit Transceivers
- Conduction-cooled PrPMC / XMC format
- Provided schematics, CPLD & FPGA code, low-level PCI support in C
- Provided test code & procedures
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Avalanche Photodetector Board
- Detector for high-speed pulse-power measurements
- Identified candidate APD suppliers, correlated disparate datasheet info
- Analyzed filter topologies for high SNR
- Laid-out PCB to meet strict customer mechanical requirements
- Sourced bare PCBs
- Tested noise, bandwidth, pulse response of completed assemblies
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Digital Audio Power-CoDec Development
- From specification to initial demonstration in two weeks
- StarBoard provided full Verilog code plus testbench
- Based on Spartan-3 FPGA and integrated 12-FET output stage
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Custom Audio Power ASIC Sample Board
- 4-layer and 2-layer reference designs for direct integration by customers
- Allows demonstration/experimentation with different configurations by simple jumper selection
- Accomodates multiple component packages in key positions
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PDR-level system design for a low-power multi-DSP + multi-FPGA VME/PMC board set
- Full power analysis
- Top-level design and I/O allocation for two high-end Xilinx FPGAs
- Netlist generated for preliminary board layout and mechanical design
- Included support for customer meetings
- Met highly compressed schedule
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Consumer 360-degree Camera System
- Provided production-ready schematics, HDL, and prototype hardware
- Single-DSP (analog-video output) and dual-DSP (1394 interface) versions
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Custom DSP Development / Demonstration / Characterization Platform
- Interchangable DSP daughtercards
- 400Mbit/s IEEE1394 interface to PC
- Configurable FPGA interfaces to DSP I/O
- Programmable core voltage
- SDR and DDR SDRAM support
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Specification, Verilog RTL development and verification for I/O modules of a new DSP family
- High-speed video input and output ports
- Selectable master/slave host port
- PLL-based clock control
- Embedded bus monitor
- General-purpose I/O
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Demonstration of new DSP architecture
- Based on 1.5M Gate equivalent Altera FPGA
- USB interface to PC
- Extensive debugging features
- RS-422 Interface to external CCD camera
- Firmware and Windows DLL included
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Three unique vision-based process controls for flat-glass manufacturing
- Flow tracking inside the melt tank
- Width measurement inside the tin bath
- High-accuracy width and knurl tracking immediately after the tin bath (linescan camera)
- All projects included camera and processing specification, algorithm development, PC-based software, documentation, and customer training
- Custom camera modifications were made as needed
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Full-Custom Camera for Adaptive-Optics-Based Astronomy
- 4-output backside-illuminated CCD array
- Thermoelectric cooling
- 128 x 128 pixel resolution
- 2,000 Frames per second
- Less than 10 electrons noise
- 12-bit resolution, 11-bit dynamic range
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Industrial high-speed CCD camera
- 4-output array
- 256 x 256 pixel resolution
- 15 - 1,000 Frames per second
- 32-bit digital output
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Quick-turn demonstration platform for new InGaAs Near-IR sensors |