Powering FPGAs and Building High-Speed Interconnects
Energy-Efficiency Technical Seminar
Presented by Altera Corporation and National Semiconductor
Event Details
Join experts from National Semiconductor and Altera on Tuesday, September 2, 2008, for a one-day technical seminar focused on energy efficient methods of powering FPGAs and building high-speed interconnects.

Topics
- What is new for energy-saving solutions; an introduction to PowerWise products, concept and metrics
- How to optimize your FPGA design for lower power
- Broadcast video solutions, including high-speed system interfacing, and FPGA interfacing
- Building video and image processing applications in FPGAs
- Industrial/communication interfaces, with focus on high-speed interfacing
- Implementing low-cost flexible Industrial Ethernet and motor control systems within FPGAs
Agenda:
| Time |
Presentation |
Presenter |
| 8:30 – 9:00 |
Registration |
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| 9:00 – 10:30 |
National: Metrics for PowerWise Solutions |
National |
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Key Challenges for Powering FPGAs |
National |
| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Break |
|
| 10:45 – 12:15 |
Reducing Your System Power Consumption with Altera® FPGAs |
Altera |
| |
Power-Aware Design Flow for Altera FPGAs |
Altera |
| 12:15 – 1:15 |
Lunch
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Applications: Broadcast/Video
|
|
| 1:15 – 2:00 |
Optimizing SDI Video Design to Deliver the Best Analog Performance |
National |
| |
Implementing Triple-Rate SDI Protocol Processing on Low-Cost FPGAs |
Omnitek |
| 2:00 – 2:45 |
Building a Video System Using the Altera Video/Image Processing (VIP) Suite |
Altera |
| 2:45 – 3:00 |
Break |
|
| |
Applications: Industrial/Communication Solutions |
|
| 3:00 – 3:45 |
Implementing Flexible, High-speed, High-performance Serial Links with Complementary FPGA-Based Designs |
National |
| 3:45 – 4:30 |
Implementing Low-Cost, Flexible Industrial Ethernet and Motor Control Solutions with FPGAs |
Altera |

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