| Real-time Embedded Systems Lab (RESL) | Tools and Technologies Available for You:
- Safety-CriticalSoftware Development
- Rapita RVS and the RTBx1210 – for target Worst-Case Execution Time (WCET) and performance analysis of safety-critical systems
- DataMill for Benchmarking
- A heterogeneous set of machines with a wide variety of architectures (ARM, PowerPC, Intel, SPARC, AMD, and Atmel) for empirical evaluation of software performance.
- Avionics Case Study
- A Hexacopter with autopilot on RT-Linux attached to a stand for experimentation
- Research engineers Yassir Rizwan, Thomas Reidemeister, Peiyi Chen
- Tilera TILEncore-Gx36 Manycore platform
- A 36-Core platform for experiments on power and application acceleration
| RESL Contact:
Dr. Sebastian Fischmeister
University of Waterloo E5-4112
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Phone: 1.519.888.4567 ext:33694
Email: sfischme@uwaterloo.ca
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| MIP Si-Photonic Variant |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for integration and validating of Si-photonic-based microsystems.
- Addresses specific research needs through a graphics-based programmable environment and hardware enabling integration of Si-photonic hardware in the loop.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXI and PXIe).
| Susan Xu
Senior Engineer, System-Level Integration
Phone: +1.613.530.4692
E-mail Susan Xu
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| MIP RF-MEMS Variant |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for integration and validating of RF-MEMS based microsystems .
- Addresses specific research needs through a graphics-based programmable environment and RF-MEMS devices interface boards.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXIe).
| Susan Xu
Senior Engineer, System-Level Integration
Phone: +1.613.530.4692
E-mail Susan Xu
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| MIP Micromirror Variant |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for integration and validating of micromirror-based microsystems.
- Addresses specific research needs through a graphics-based programmable environment and micromirror sensors and actuator interfaces boards.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXI and PXIe).
| Susan Xu
Senior Engineer, System-Level Integration
Phone: +1.613.530.4692
E-mail Susan Xu
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| MIP Microfluidics Variant |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for integration and validating of microfluidics-based microsystems.
- Addresses specific research needs through a graphics-based programmable environment and microfluidics bio-sensor and actuator interfaces boards.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXI and PXIe).
| Susan Xu
Senior Engineer, System-Level Integration
Phone: +1.613.530.4692
E-mail Susan Xu
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| MIP Generic MEMS Variant |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for integration and validating of MEMS-based microsystems.
- Addresses specific research needs through a graphics-based programmable environment and MEMS sensor and actuator interfaces boards.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXI and PXIe).
| Susan Xu
Senior Engineer, System-Level Integration
Phone: +1.613.530.4692
Email: susan.xu@cmc.ca
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| Wireless Sensor Network Kits |
- Commercially supported compiler – IAR.
- Source code for many examples
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
Contact for Configuration 1
Olive Zhao
Embedded Software Engineer
Phone: +1.613.530.4696
Email: olive.zhao@cmc.ca
Contact for Configuration 2
James Millar
SOC Engineer
Phone: +1.613.530.4673
Email: james.millar@cmc.ca
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| SOSCIP Agile Computing Platform | | Access to the systems is through SOSCIP’s application and approval process, while supporting software is available through CMC. SOSCIP and CMC Microsystems are seeking proposals (application form) for new industry-academic collaborative projects that require FPGA technology and will leverage other services and support provided by SOSCIP and CMC. For more information, see the presentation on the SOSCIP-CMC Partnership and benefits.
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| BEEcube Software Defined Radio (SDR) |
- Accelerates research by providing
- A feature-rich platform for implementing and validating Software Defined Radio system architectures and algorithms
- An automated design flow from MATLAB/Simulink (or similar environment), reducing development effort and enabling platform use by application/domain experts
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system, in particular:
- High-performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Hardware-based application acceleration
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet).
- Technical support and training from CMC Microsystems
| Email LAB@cmc.ca.
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| NI/BEEcube Software Defined Radio (SDR) Gen-2 |
- Accelerates research by providing
- A feature-rich platform for implementing and validating Software Defined Radio system architectures and algorithms
- An automated design flow from MATLAB/Simulink (and/or proprietary software), reducing development effort and enabling platform use by application/domain experts
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system, in particular:
- High-performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Hardware-based application acceleration
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet).
- Technical support and training from CMC Microsystems
| Email lab@cmc.ca.
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| Advanced Processing Platform: Nallatech 510T |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Multiprocessor Array Platform |
- High performance and power efficiency
- Accelerates research in the areas of massive data processing, image processing, scientific modeling, parallel computing architecture exploration etc.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces ( PCI-express)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Microsystems Integration Platforms (MIP) |
- Accelerates research by providing a pre-configured, research-ready system that works out-of-the-box; the included reference design, training, and CMC configuration support help jump-start your research and speed up improvements to your sensor or other application.
- Addresses specific research needs through a modular, customizable, and programmable system that users can tailor to specific projects and applications; technology-specific variants include features for MEMS, micromirror, microfluidic, and RF-MEMS applications.
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and by compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PXI).
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| Heterogeneous Processing Platform (HPP) |
- Customizability: Select the right mixt of accelerators for your application
- Greater flexibility for HW/SW exploration
- Scalability: Create one node and scale up by adding more nodes
- Fast automated setup and configuration
- Faster path to commercialization
- Technical support and training from CMC Microsystems
| Accessing Development Systems
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| Advanced Processing Platform: miniBEE |
- Accelerates research by providing
- A feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- An automated design flow from MATLAB/Simulink, reducing development effort and enabling platform use by application/domain experts
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system, in particular:
- Multi-core SOC design and emulation
- High-performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Hardware-based application and simulation acceleration
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
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Contact our Licensing Administrator at 613-530-4787 or licensing@cmc.ca.
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| BEE4 |
- Accelerates research by providing
- A feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- An automated design flow from MATLAB/Simulink, reducing development effort and enabling platform use by application/domain experts
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system, in particular:
- Multi-core SOC design and emulation
- High-performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Hardware-based application acceleration
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet).
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| BEE3 |
- Accelerates research by providing
- A feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- An automated design flow from MATLAB/Simulink, reducing development effort and enabling platform use by application/domain experts
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system, in particular:
- Multi-core SOC design and emulation
- High performance Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
- Hardware-based application acceleration
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet).
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| Acceleration Platform | To provide researchers working with FPGA development access to a hardware acceleration solution for many compute and/or data intensive applications with a low-latency / high bandwidth solution enabling the researchers to remove the bottleneck from the host CPU / memory to the FPGA
Enables researchers to focus on algorithm/application acceleration using FPGAs, without detailed knowledge of FPGA hardware design or other infrastructure (e.g., PCIe and memory controller IP blocks)
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| Altera/Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Altera/Intel-based DE5a-Net Arria 10 FPGA Development Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Altera DE4 FPGA Development Board |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
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| Xilinx ZC706 Evaluation Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Xilinx KCU105 Evaluation Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Xilinx VC707 Evaluation Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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| Xilinx KC705 Evaluation Kit |
- Accelerates research by providing a feature-rich platform for implementing and validating embedded system architectures and algorithms
- Addresses specific research needs through a hardware/software programmable system and application-specific daughter cards (e.g., analog interface module)
- Enables a faster path to commercialization by sourcing commercial-grade components and through compliance with commercial standards and interfaces (e.g., PCI-express, Ethernet)
| Visit the Development Systems Community national catalogue.
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