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Important Electronic Design Considerations for Data Acquisition Systems: Part 2 – Harsh Environments

By Alex LeBlanc | Nov 15, 2023

Over the past two decades Nuvation Engineering has developed data acquisition systems for a wide range devices and market applications. Based on our experience performing hundreds of engineering desig...

Important Electronic Design Considerations for Data Acquisition Systems: Part 1 – Calibration

By Mark Bingeman | Sep 20, 2023

Over the past two decades Nuvation Engineering has developed data acquisition systems for a wide range devices and market applications. Based on our experience performing hundreds of engineering desig...

HBM and FPGAs

By Mark Bingeman | Jul 22, 2019

Bandwidth Gap An emerging issue in the computing industry over the last several years is the bandwidth gap between the major communication interfaces (PCIe, Ethernet, USB, etc.), and the external m...

FPGAs and HMC Devices: What You Need to Know

By Mark Bingeman | Oct 25, 2017

You might have heard that FPGAs are well-suited to interface with HMC devices, but do you understand why? In this article we explain what an HMC is, what the advantages of using them are, and how FPGA...

FPGA Design Tip: How to Automatically Identify Your Build Time

By Ken Wells | Sep 22, 2017

FPGA design engineers compile a lot of images – fixing this, testing that. With multiple bitstreams loaded during system integration, it can be confusing which gateware (what we like to call “FPGA...

Next Generation FPGAs Address Demands of the Zettabyte Era

By Mark Bingeman | May 23, 2017

Global IP traffic has been significantly increasing over the last few years and is anticipated to continue to increase into the future. Here are a few highlights from Cisco’s VNI June 2016 report.i...

4K Video Design Challenges and Solutions

By Mark Bingeman | Mar 13, 2014

Nuvation Engineering has completed a number of 4K video design projects for industries ranging from consumer electronics to defense and aerospace. Although the design requirements vary greatly, an FPG...

H.265 Video Codec: What It Means for FPGA Designs

By Jong Kim | Mar 7, 2014

In early 2013 the next generation video codec standard was approved by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). The standard is called High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), more commonly r...

4 Reasons You Should Be Using VMs for FPGA and Software Development

By Gwyneth Saldanha | Jan 7, 2014

Back in the day, FPGA and software developers only had access to a single workstation for developing, simulating production on n-tier systems, and running tests for all their projects. Virtual machine...

An Easier Verification Method for FPGA Designs

By Steve Miller | Sep 27, 2013

Recently, Senior Design Engineer Steve Miller was working on an FPGA design project that required taking multiple video inputs and processing them in real-time through an FPGA. Some of the necessary c...