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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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).

• 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).

• 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

• 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

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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).

• 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)

• 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

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

• Commercially supported compiler – IAR.
• Source code for many examples

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• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)