March 5, 2003
Delfín board moves to production - Get 32 sigma-delta A/D channels on a 64-bit PCI DSP card!
Don't look elsewhere to get 100dB spectral free performance piped right into to the best floating point DSP on the market. Our high-end sigma-delta DSP card has been released for production and meets or exceeds all preliminary specifications. A high channel count, best-in-class analog performance, amazing trigger flexibility and TI's C6711 DSP make this 64-bit PCI card an unmatched value. Delfín ships with our acclaimed Pismo Toolset Dev Software, making it an integration ready solution for many industries: professional audio test equipment, acoustic monitoring, direction finding, SONAR, semiconductor testing, precision instrumentation, vibration analysis.
Red Hat Linux 8.0 Drivers Available for M6x cards. Support for Matador Cards Around the Corner!
The M6x, our proven, flexible PCI DSP card with one C6201 or C6701 processor, multiple on-board peripherals and two OMNIBUS expansion sites for add-on analog I/O, steps into the Linux arena with our new ZumaKylix Toolset. The ZumaKylix Toolset includes Innovative's DSPClix Components, which allow developers to use the power of Borland's Kylix visual environment to rapidly develop Linux applications for use with the M6x DSP board. These components provide full support for mailbox messaging and bi-directional data streaming with busmastering over the PCI bus. Simplified point & click methods are provided for booting, COFF download, Target-to-Host and Host-to-Target interrupt events, and shared memory access. Linux support for our Matador Series of DSP Cards is in its final stages of development and is expected to be available Q2 of this year.
Serial I/O OMNIBUS Module Provides Flexible DIO and Open-Platform FPGA
The new Serial I/O OMNIBUS Module allows end-users to develop custom digital interfaces between an M6x, SBC6x, or SBC6711 DSP board and their own hardware. The heart of this card is its fully customizable 150,000-gate Xilinx Spartan-II FPGA. Digital I/O is split to numerous ports: 12 pairs of differential-driven inputs and outputs, one quad UART with RS232/422 drivers, and three connectors of straight-out DIO from the FPGA. On-board LEDs, flash PROM and Xilinx debug port support efficient debugging and system integration. Example VHDL source code showing the interface to the EMIF and McBSP of the DSP is provided with the board. This card is an excellent platform for receiving/processing data from remote analog systems, developing custom interfaces for unique protocols, integrating hardware-assisted processing: serializing/de-serializing, data merging and reformatting, quadrature decoding, time stamping, peak detection, filtering, etc.
Developer's Advantage: Large Library of Code Examples Provided with each DSP Board
Our Pismo and Zuma software toolsets, delivered free of charge with DSP boards, include a large collection of host-side & target-side example programs in source form, which illustrate the operation of each and every interface of any particular Innovative DSP board. This is a significant advantage to developers beginning a new project.
Check out how the SERVO example for our TORO DSP card is used as a template by developers. It serves as the starting point for implementing high-speed, closed-loop control using a hardware interrupt timebase that drives A/D conversion, DMA transfer to DSP memory, a "blank" routine for custom control algorithm equations, and the update of the D/A channels. All while using our DSP/BIOS drivers to maximize DMA transfers and optimize CPU bandwidth utilization.
These examples can be run as soon as the card is installed or they can be built upon, or used to understand lower level control of the card. Examples go a long way in demonstrating product operation, cutting your development to a fraction of what it used to be.
