BANGALORE, INDIA: Altera Corp. announced its Stratix II FPGAs have been selected by EONIC B.V. for use in its SR-5124 converged multi-channel signals acquisition system.

Used as a signal receiver in electronic warfare systems, the SR-5124 leverages the high-performance architecture of the Stratix II FPGA to provide advanced digital signal processing capabilities, while using minimal power. EONIC recently announced the U.S. Navy and the German Ministry of Defense have both selected the SR-5124 for use in their sophisticated next-generation electronic warfare systems.

The SR-5124 is a full-featured SIGINT (signals intelligence) recorder, which stores both ELINT (electronic intelligence) and COMINT (communications intelligence) signals. Stratix II FPGAs are a proven solution in electronic warfare systems, offering reliability, flexibility, digital signal processing and low latency. Using Altera's high-performance FPGAs, the SR-5124 is able to detect, monitor, record and analyze a combination of video, radio, satellite communication and radar signals simultaneously and synchronously.

Altera, Bitec deliver next-gen video system platform
In another development, Altera and Bitec delivered a platform for next-generation video system development. This is a complete design environment for the creation of high-performance video applications.

The video development kit enables designers to rapidly develop and prototype high-performance, cost-sensitive video applications. At the heart of the kit are Altera's Cyclone III FPGAs, which are an ideal video processing platform given the device's large parallel processing capabilities with up to 288 multipliers, 4-Mbit embedded memory blocks, and low power consumption. The kit supports multiple video I/O formats, allowing video application developers to quickly develop, debug, and prototype designs using their lab video signals and displays.

The video development kit features a Cyclone III development board with two High-Speed Mezzanine Connector (HSMC)-based video interface daughtercards developed by Bitec. The kit supports composite, S-Video, DVI and RGB video and contains:

Cyclone III EP3C120F780 development board
Quad-Video HSMC daughtercard (8 composite or 4 S-Video inputs)
DVI HSMC daughtercard and DVI cable
Quartus II Web Edition software
Access to Altera OpenCore Plus evaluation intellectual property (IP) megafunctions including the Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite
A CD-ROM with a video mosaic reference design developed by Bitec