FPGA Programming

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)

For some R&D, test and prototype applications, FPGAs can offer great advantages in terms of performance, time to market, cost, reliability and long-term maintenance.

We are able to support you with expertise in FPGA programming across National Instrument’s full range including Compact RIO (cRIO) and Virtex-5 LX110 FPGA.

Our experience covers:

• The range of Xilinx based FPGAs (Virtex II through to Virtex 5)
• Direct interaction with primitives and macros for the underlying architecture
• Implementing 200MHz DDR comms to 16-bit parallel ADC (which also involved implementing instance of digital clock manager – DCM – to adjust clock skew on pin by pin basis)
• Using Xilinx Coregen tools to implement and incorporate pre-generated blocks such as FIR filters and dual port memory etc
• Development of standard protocols (eg SPI and I2C) to external devices (eg Memory, ADCs and DACs)
• Using Xilinx floor-planner tools to develop Location based constraints files
• Linking VHDL with other 3rd party tools, including Xilinx Schematics (block diagram) and LabVIEW FPGA (CLIP nodes)
• Altera FPGAs as the underlying architecture and VHDL structure are the same.