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FPGA Design / Programmable Logic

Providing solutions in highly complex designs and “design for cost” applications

Rapid Automation Design is a leading provider of FPGA development services. Our expert FPGA designers have years of proven experience in a variety of markets including both government and commercial environments. Rapid Automation’s development team has the capability to provide programmable logic solutions in highly complex designs and “design for cost” applications. The company offers a full development environment and provides on-site support to ensure smooth integration into the final product.

When customers require the highest standards in reliability, performance, parallel processing, programmable logic such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are the industry standard.

Extensive experience with:

  • Digital Communications
  • High Speed Serial Links
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Modulation/Demodulation
  • GPS Systems
  • Ethernet MAC (10/100/1000)
  • PowerPC embedded processor cores (Xilinx devices)
  • Memory Controllers
  • PCI and PCIe (PCI Express)

Numerous IP cores including:

Xilinx Rocket I/O – High speed Serial Data Transmission

  • PCI Express
  • Rapid I/O
  • Aurora

DSP Functions

  • Fast Fourier Transforms
  • Filter Design
  • Cordic
  • NCO/DDS

Embedded Processor Cores

  • Xilinx built-in PowerPC
  • Xilinx MicroBlaze
  • Xilinx PicoBlaze

PCI Cores

  • PCI 32-bit/33 MHz
  • PCI 64-bit/66 MHz
  • PCI Express

Proficient with all major PLD vendor software including:

  • Xilinx
  • Altera
  • Lattice
  • Actel

Standard IP Cores

  • FIFOs
  • Dual Port RAM
  • Advanced Clock Management

FPGA Development Tools

  • Xilinx ISE
  • Altera Quartus
  • Actel Libero IDE
  • Lattice Semiconductor ispLEVER
  • Aldec Active-HDL
  • Synplicity Synplify
  • ModelSim Simulator
  • NcSim Simulator

Xilinx

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Xilinx leads the Programmable Logic Device (PLD) market – one of the fastest growing segments of the semiconductor industry. This market features a revolutionary technology called the field programmable gate array (FPGA) that Xilinx pioneered in 1984.

Altera

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Altera’s founders pioneered the first programmable logic device (PLD), the EP300, giving birth to an entirely new market segment in semiconductors. This new, flexible solution beat traditional standard products to market and launched Altera’s reputation as a semiconductor innovation leader.

Lattice

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Lattice holds a growing share of the programmable logic market, and led their competitors in revenue growth in both the FPGA and PLD market segments between 2005 and 2006. Lattice end customers are primarily original equipment manufacturers in the communications, computing, consumer, industrial, automotive, medical and military end markets.

Actel

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Actel’s mission is to attack power consumption from both the chip and system levels with innovative programmable logic solutions that are highly valued by our customers, rewarding to our employees, and profitable to our shareholders.