NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS’ NEW SYSTEM-ON- MODULE IS POWERED BY THE XILINX ZYNQ SOC The sbRIO-9651 system-on-module (SOM) from Alliance Member National Instruments, based on the Xilinx Zynq7000 All Programmable SoC, combines a fully tested and validated hardware design with a complete middleware solution and the NI Linux Real-Time operating system. This combination significantly reduces development time, design risk and time-to-market. The NI SOM also provides an alternative to hardware description languages (HDLs) that simplifies the task of interfacing to I/O and communicating data. The product gives design teams the customizability of a SOM without the increased time and risk of developing custom software. Unlike other SOMs, which offer limited deployment-ready software, the NI sbRIO-9651 integrates a validated board support package (BSP) and device drivers with the NI Linux Real-Time OS. As an alternative to HDLs, NI LabVIEW system-design software provides a graphical development environment with thousands of functions and IP blocks for both processor and FPGA logic development. Key benefits include: • The NI SOM ships with a complete middleware solution out of the box to remove the time and risk associated with developing an embedded OS, custom software drivers and other common software components. • LabVIEW FPGA integration eliminates a design team’s need for HDL expertise, making powerful FPGA technology more accessible than ever before. • NI Linux Real-Time, a robust Linux-based RTOS, gives design teams access to an extensive community of applications and IP. • A complete development kit includes a reference carrier board along with design files for reuse. Fourth Quarter 2014
• Design teams can use NI’s CompactRIO technology to quickly prototype their applications and then deploy them with the same code used for prototyping, which saves significant time and effort. • The SOM product is based on an industrial-grade Zynq-7020 SoC, and is designed, tested and validated for reliable long-term deployment and industrial applications.
TOPIC AND XILINX RELEASE COMPLETE DESIGN PLATFORM FOR MEDICAL SYSTEMS Premier Alliance Member Topic Embedded Systems and Xilinx have released a platform for development and deployment of medical systems that combines the power of Topic’s Dyplo framework and the Zynq SoC. Medical-device manufacturers can drag and drop sensor algorithms between the processor and FPGA fabric to instantly view trade-offs in performance and power consumption. Topic’s Dyplo framework integrates with the Vivado Design Suite and leverages high-level synthesis and partial reconfiguration to generate all required hardware and software programming files. Dyplo then acts as a middleware component to the operating system that abstracts the hardware from the application layer and manages dynamic hardware and software configuration at run-time. Resulting designs achieve system performance and power savings over processor-only implementations. The platform includes Topic’s Miami system-on-module, which comes with a Zynq XC7015 or ZC7030 device. The Florida carrier board has a 10-inch TFT touchscreen, SD Card slot, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ethernet and HDMI. An onboard TI ADS1298 analog-to-digital converter supports sixteen 24-bit, 32-kHz channels for ECG/EMG/EEG electrodes. The hardware complies with ISO13485, EN 55021 Class A and IEC 61000-4-2 EMC standards, dramatically reducing development risk.
Complete development kits are available from Topic starting at $3,450. The kits include a ZC7030 Miami SOM, Florida carrier board, eight electrodes, trial license of Dyplo, medical reference design and Linux kernel in a robust flight case. The Miami SOMs are also available for separate purchase. For more information, contact info@TopicEmbeddedProducts.com.
EASING IP EVALUATION REQUESTS TO ACCELERATE DESIGN AND INTEGRATION TIME FOR XYLON IP The latest version of Vivado IP Integrator offers a pushbutton IP-evaluation request capability for IP cores from Xilinx Alliance members. Customers using the 2014.3 release will now have access to the logicBRICKS evaluation IP cores from Premier Alliance Member Xylon, with IP from other alliance members to be added in future releases. Seven Vivado-optimized logicBRICKS IP cores are certified as Vivado UltraFAST™ compatible and are optimized for Xilinx All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs. They are listed in the Vivado IP Catalog with a link to download the evaluation versions. This availability enables the rapid evaluation of efficient image-processing, video-processing and interface IP, further expanding the Vivado IP Catalog and shortening the overall design cycle. The cores include: • logiVIEW Perspective Transformation and Lens Correction Image Processor • l ogi3D Scalable 3D Graphic Accelerator • Bitmap 2.5D Graphics Accelerator • l ogiCVC-ML Compact Multilayer Video Controller • logiI2C Serial Bus Controller • logiI2S Audio I2S Transmitter/ Receiver • logiSDHC SD Card Host Controller Xcell Journal
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