The MathWorks and Altera DSP Collaboration

Altera, in close collaboration with The MathWorks, has created a comprehensive digital signal processing (DSP) development flow that allows you to enjoy the price/performance benefits of Altera^® FPGAs while leveraging Simulink, the industry-leading tool for model-based design from The MathWorks.

"The partnership between Altera and The MathWorks provides DSP system designers with the ability to address the next-generation of high-performance DSP applications. By using The MathWorks' Simulink and Altera's DSP Builder and SOPC Builder tools, engineers can quickly develop systems for video and image processing and high-speed digital communications in a powerful design environment."
Ken Karnofsky, Marketing Director, DSP and Communications - The MathWorks

Figure 1. Altera and MathWorks Comprehensive DSP Development Flow

Altera's DSP Builder is a DSP development tool that connects Simulink with Altera's industry-leading Quartus^® II development software. DSP Builder provides a seamless design flow in which designers perform algorithmic development in the MATLAB software and system-level design in the Simulink software, and then port the design to HDL files for use in the Quartus II software. Additionally, developers can take advantage of the Hardware-in-the-Loop feature to accelerate system level co-simulation and provide advanced debugging capabilities. The DSP Builder tool is tightly integrated with the SOPC Builder tool, allowing the user to build systems that incorporate Simulink designs and Altera embedded processors and intellectual property (IP) cores. This development flow is easy and intuitive for designers who do not have extensive experience using programmable logic design software.

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