Features and Benefits
The Innovation Station allows you to take a whole new approach to electronics design. By using the potential of today’s high-capacity programmable chips you can move functionality out of the physical domain into the soft domain focusing on producing device intelligence that creates sustainable differentiation. Create new connectivity with customers through your products. Add new products once they're in the field.
The background behind the future of electronics design.
Design Features
Design libraries that are more than component symbols and low-level code libraries – Design with blocks of preconfigured hardware, complete with software drivers to suit.
Hardware blocks that go beyond being mere schematics – Use plug-and-play hardware I/O modules, ready to connect to your chosen processor and FPGA.
An intelligent and connected design environment – A design system so versatile that it automatically configures itself to suit your design.
A full Device Software Framework – Write code independently of the processor, with full driver support for the chosen set of peripheral blocks.
Design that is independent of the underlying devices – Move hardware and software between processor and FPGA devices without modifying the design.
On-the-fly hardware generation – Capture design in an abstract way, and then push it from the code into fast hardware, with a few mouse clicks.
Design software interfaced directly to the development hardware – Reconfigure your development environment to suit your design with swappable FPGAs, processors and peripheral devices. Test on your desktop and then go to manufacture.
Design Benefits
- The IP that you program into the system is much easier to protect than the physical IP as the source isn’t shipped with the product
- Soft design can happen before the hardware platform is designed
- Soft design can continue after the hardware is designed
- Soft design can continue after the hardware is manufactured
- Soft design can continue after the hardware is deployed to the end customer
- Aesthetics implemented in the soft design can be changed after the product is manufactured and deployed
- Soft design provides the basis for an ecosystem which connects your customer to you via your products
