Example Projects

Communications DS-3 Transmux OC-12 Tester VOIP Router Video/Audio Video-On-Demand Server USB Camera Vision Processor PCI Multi-Port PCI-X Bridge Multi-Port PCI Bridge MPEG Processor DSP Advanced Satellite Testbed Decimation Filter

DS-3 Transmux DS-3 to VT1.5 Mux and Demux Board Services Performed: Logic Design Board Development Software Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: High component density Industrial temperature range Complex jitter attenuation FPGA design Re-targeted customer VT Mapper to a new FPGA Four Altera Flex 10K100 and two Xilinx 4036 devices Responsible for temperature and ESD testing Volume production OC-12 Tester OC-12 to ATM Cell Analyzer FPGA Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: ATM cell processing CRC 32/16/10 generation/verification SDRAM control and arbitration Utopia I/II Tx/Rx interfaces Motorola 603e processor interface Five Altera Flex 10K50 devices VOIP Router Voice-Over-Internet-Packet (VOIP) Routing FPGAs Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: Buffer and route VOIPs for further processing High channel density and throughput requirements Utopia POS-PHY II Interface CAM and SDRAM Interfaces TI DSP HPI Bus Interface Motorola PowerPC Interface One Altera Apex 20K600 & four 20K400 devices Multi-Port PCI-X Bridge Three-Port PCI-X Bridge With A DDR SDRAM Port FPGA Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: Multi-function PCI-X Bridge High throughput requirements Data store and forward capabilities Customer logic integrated Xilinx Virtex II Pro VP30 Multi-Port PCI Bridge Two-Port PCI Bridge With Integrated DMA Engine FPGA Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: 66 MHz, 64 Bit PCI Interfaces DMA Engine used to maximize throughput Minimal host intervention required for large transfers Comprehensive error handling Altera Apex 20K200 MPEG Video Processor SDI MPEG Video Processor Board Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: 1.5 Gbit/s SDI Port 66 MHz, 32 bit PCI Port FPGA configured through PCI Port Two Xilinx Virtex II 4000s Low volume production by Northwest Logic Firewall Controller Stand-Alone Firewall Controller Board Services Performed: Board Development Software Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: High efficiency, low-power system Intel low-voltage Celeron processor Intel 440MX chipset Three 10/100 Ethernet ports 64 MB solid state disk drive General Software BIOS Volume production Printer Server High-end printer processor/interface board Services Performed: Board Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: Custom thermal solution Freescale PowerPC 7447 Marvell Discovery III Chipset PMC card development Prototype manufacturing by Northwest Logic Network Scanner High-Performance Network Scanner System Services Performed: Integration & Test Project Highlights: Off-the-shelf motherboard Sophisticated thermal analysis and design Custom metal chassis and plastic front bezel Complete environmental testing World-wide certification (FCC, UL, CE, VCCI, C-Tick, BSMI, MIC) Hand-off to contract manufacturer Volume production Advanced Satellite Testbed Complete Satellite Demodulation Test System Services Performed: Logic Design Software Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: DVB signal processing Completely digital baud and carrier recovery Viterbi and Reed-Solomon error correction One Altera Stratix 1S80 device Automated testing using TCL scripts Prototype manufacturing by Northwest Logic Decimation Filter High Precision Signal Filter and Resample FPGA Services Performed: Logic Design Project Highlights: 125 MHz, 18 bit processing Variable length Decimation Filter (up to 1023 taps) Variable gain, offset and dither control One Xilinx Virtex-II Pro VP30 Video-On-Demand Server High Performance Video-On-Demand Server Board Services Performed: Logic Design Board Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: Nocona Xeon Processor Lindenhurst PCI-Express chipset 800 MHz Front Side Bus Dual channel, 400 MHz DDR-II memory 6 PCI-X buses 2 Dual SCSI controllers Dual Gigabit Ethernet Volume production USB Camera CMOS Image Sensor/Processor Board Services Performed: Logic Design Board Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: VGA video over USB Retargeted ASIC code to the FPGA Integrated USB Core into FPGA One Altera Flex 10K200 Low volume production by Northwest Logic Vision Processor Video Frame Grabber & Processor Board Services Performed: Logic Design Board Development Integration & Test Project Highlights: Captures and processes real-time video Rigid-Flex Board Geode Processor Compact Flash, USB, Ethernet, Video Interfaces RS-170 Video and PCI Interface FPGA Design One Xilinx Spartan-II 2S300 Prototype manufacturing by Northwest Logic