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 runs. For this reason, Sundance DSP developed the FMC-RPi module to route […]
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 full-size Mini PCIe FPGA module the company calls the “Tiny Beast,” is […]
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 PolarBerry, a system-on-module from Sundance DSP, fits those constraints because the chip at its […]
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 shops they’re cheaper to keep than to replace. The problem is the other […]
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 transceiver, a camera interface, or a network tap. There are two generations […]
“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 provides. As FPGA-based systems take on more of the processing load in ISR payloads, electronic warfare suites, […]
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 Bollinger Bands. We cover its core theory (with important practical caveats), show how it is typically […]
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. Over years of use, this exposure adds up. It can quietly damage boards that were never built to survive it. This […]
Introduction In rugged embedded computing, it’s tempting to treat every new form factor as a replacement for the last one. VNX+ is often described that way, as “the next VPX” or “VPX, but smaller.” That framing misses the point. VPX (ANSI/VITA 46/48/65) and VNX+ (ANSI/VITA 90) were never meant to compete for the same slot […]
If you have worked with the Microchip PolarFire SoC architecture, specifically on customized hardware modules like the SundanceDSP SE301 / SOM1-SoC or PolarBerry, you quickly realize that traditional embedded boot mechanics do not apply here. Unlike an ARM chip that searches for an MBR or a FAT32 partition to find a bootloader, the PolarFire SoC […]