The Avnet Spartan-3A DSP FPGA/DaVinci development platform provides an engineering platform for evaluating and integrating the Xilinx Spartan 3A-DSP FPGA and TI digital media processor based on DaVinci technology. The new platform offers the XC3SD1800ADSP FPGA and TMS320DM6437, a DSP-only digital media processor based on DaVinci technology, in an optimized configuration, with both high-speed data and low-speed control interfaces between the two devices.
The board provides necessary peripheral and interface functions, and includes, full EXP expansion slot for the addition of application specific add-on modules. The platform is targeted at surveillance, automotive and machine vision video applications, said Avnet Electronics Marketing.
The Avnet Spartan-3A DSP DaVinci development kit offers an integrated platform combining Texas Instruments DaVinci technology with Xilinx FPGAs for design teams creating compute-intensive products in industrial imaging, video security, automotive and machine vision, added Avnet Electronics Marketing.
Jim Beneke, vice president of global technical marketing for Avnet Electronics Marketing, said: The combined features and functionality of the Spartan-3A DSP FPGA and the DM6437 DSP processor on a single baseboard offer many benefits for video processing applications. Designers can leverage the hardware parallelism of the FPGA with the integration and software elegance of the DSP. The two together offer a unique cost-performance advantage.
