If you’ve built a transmit-and-receive system around an FPGA carrier, you know the squeeze. There are only so many FMC sites and gigabit transceivers, and the DAC and ADC end up competing for both. SundanceDSP’s answer is to stack the ADC module on top of...
Four DACs and four ADCs on one FMC+ site
Sundance DSP SE120: From PCIe-Based FPGA Development to Standalone Embedded Processing
One Platform for Development, Integration, and Field Deployment Many FPGA applications are developed on a PC, where the host provides application control, data storage, and a graphical interface. However, the final system may need to operate independently in an...
Bridging PMOD and Raspberry Pi Ecosystems on One FMC: The Sundance FMC-RPi Module
For FPGA engineers, moving a signal from the fabric to a peripheral board consumes more engineering hours than the RTL behind it. Meanwhile, the mechanical fit, voltage levels, pin-count math, and adapter part numbers all multiply before the first line of test code...
Sundance DSP Solar Express 50 (SE50): Adding High-Speed GPIO to a Host System
Most host systems (industrial PCs, embedded controllers, single-board computers) run out of I/O long before they run out of compute. A handful of GPIO pins, a slow parallel bus, no deterministic path for fast signals. The Sundance DSP Solar Express 50 (SE50), a...
PolarBerry: A PoE-Powered RISC-V Platform Built for Unattended Ground Sensors
The challenge with any sensor node deployed in the field is simple: get information from a remote location without drawing attention to the node itself. Transmit less, transmit shorter, and run cooler. Those three constraints shape the hardware you pick. The...
FMC-CLV: the Camera Link bridge you need when the next generation of FPGAs won’t talk to your old camera
Camera Link has been the default for fast, high-resolution imaging for a long time. Defense, scientific, and high-end industrial imaging all have a big installed base of it. Those cameras are still making pictures; they’re still pulling their weight, and in most...
Mixing and Matching FMC and FMC+ Boards: A Practical Guide
Two standards, one mezzanine ecosystem The FPGA Mezzanine Card family gives hardware engineers a way to separate the FPGA carrier from the I/O front end. Buy one carrier, swap the mezzanine, and the same processing platform becomes a data acquisition system, an RF...
Why “Made in the USA” Matters for Critical Aerospace and Defense FPGA Deployment
“Made in the USA” is sometimes treated as a marketing footnote, a nice-to-have on a datasheet rather than a factor that shapes a procurement decision. In critical aerospace and defense electronics, that view undersells what domestic manufacturing actually...
Demystifying Algorithmic Trading: Scaling Bollinger Bands from Python to Versal Gen 2 Hardware
In high-velocity financial markets, success often depends on two things: a statistical edge that survives real-world frictions, and the speed at which you can act on it. This article walks through a classic quantitative approach, the mean-reversion strategy using...
Why the SOM1-SOC (PolarFire SoC) Suits Radiation-Resistant Medical Imaging Systems
Introduction Medical imaging equipment lives close to radiation. CT scanners, angiography suites, C-arms, linear accelerators, and PET/SPECT scanners all place sensitive electronics near an active radiation source. Sometimes the electronics sit just centimeters away....
