Overview
Founded in 1989, BittWare designs and manufactures commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) signal processing solutions based on a hybrid architecture combining Altera's FPGA technology with Analog Devices’ SHARC digital signal processors. Headquartered in Concord, NH with engineering and sales offices in Leesburg, VA, Phoenix, AZ, and Belfast, Northern Ireland, BittWare has experienced continuous sales growth and has an active customer base of over 200.
In 2004, BittWare opened its UK branch with its acquisition of EZ-DSP, Ltd., a privately held company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Acquiring EZ-DSP, one of the leading software developers for Analog Devices' TigerSHARC processors, strengthened BittWare's position as a market-leading producer of COTS embedded computing solutions based on TigerSHARC technology for the military/defense, government, and commercial markets.
BittWare's hybrid products, designed for Altera’s FPGA and Analog Devices' TigerSHARC families, have been developed for a wide range of form factors and applications. The company offers a wide selection of standard or tailored digital signal processing (DSP) and FPGA hardware and software solutions that enable OEMs to quickly and cost-effectively get their products to market.
Available Products
BittWare currently provides the products shown in Table 1.
| Table 1. Available BittWare Development Boards | |||
| Product | Description | Supported Altera® Devices | |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPR Development System | The Software Programmable Reconfiguration (SPR) development system provides engineers with a system platform to explore software reconfiguration of waveform functionality for high-end signal processing applications such as software-defined radio (SDR). The platform provides a flexible, portable, low-cost environment for SPR development in an Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) and MicroTCA environment, enabling you to quickly and cost-effectively bring your waveform designs to life. | Cyclone® III | |
| Tetra-PMC+ | The Tetra-PMC+ (TRPM) board is a high-speed analog input board that provides data capture for four 14-bit A/D channels running at up to 105 MHz. The board streams the data directly to an Altera Cyclone II FPGA, which provides A/D control, data distribution, and front-end processing capabilities. A 32-bit, 66-MHz PCI interface and four TigerSHARC link ports make the captured data available to the host board. | Cyclone II | |
| B2-AMC | The B2-AMC is a Universal Baseband Processing module featuring an Altera Stratix® II FPGA, a TigerSHARC DSP cluster, and a full-height, single-width AMC. It is network interface-configurable to support the Serial RapidIO® protocol, PCI Express, gigabit Ethernet, and XAUI. | Stratix II | |
| GT-3U-cPCI | The GT-3U-cPCI is a hybrid signal processing 3U CompactPCI board featuring an Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, a TigerSHARC DSP cluster, and BittWare's ATLANTiS architecture providing 2 Gbytes per second of external I/O throughput, DDR2 SRAM/QDR SDRAM, and 64 MB of flash memory. | Stratix II GX | |
| GX-AMC | The GX-AMC (GXAM) is a mid-sized, single-width AMC that can be attached to Advanced Telecom Compute Architecture (AdvancedTCA) carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays, and used in MicroTCA systems. The GXAM features a high-density Altera Stratix II GX FPGA, BittWare’s ATLANTiS framework (implemented in the FPGA), a front panel I/O interface, a control plane interface via BittWare’s FINe interface bridge, an IPMI system management interface, and a configurable 8x SERDES interface supporting a variety of protocols. It also provides 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR2 SDRAM, one bank of QDR2 SRAM, and flash memory for booting the FPGA and FINe. | Stratix II GX | |
| S4-AMC | The S4-AMC (S4AM) is a mid-sized, single-width AMC that can be attached to AdvancedTCA carriers or other cards equipped with AMC bays, and used in MicroTCA systems. The S4AM features a high-density, low-power Altera Stratix IV GX FPGA designed specifically for serial I/O-based applications, creating a completely flexible, reconfigurable AMC. BittWare’s ATLANTiS FrameWork, in conjunction with the FINe Host/Control Bridge, greatly simplifies application development and integration of this powerful board. The board also provides an IPMI system management interface, a configurable 15 port AMC SerDes interface supporting a variety of protocols, and a front panel 4x SerDes interface supporting CPRI and OBSAI. Additionally, the board features 10/100 Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, two banks of DDR3 SDRAM, two banks of QDR2+ SRAM, and Flash memory for booting the FPGAs and FINe. Providing enhanced flexibility is the VITA 57-compliant FMC site, which has an additional 8 SerDes, 60 LVDS pairs, and 6 clocks. | Stratix IV GX | |
Additional Services and Features
BittWare also provides application-specific solutions and support leveraging their COTS offerings.
Contact Information
For additional information, contact BittWare at:
BittWare, Inc.
9 Hills Ave, Suite B
Concord, NH 03301
Phone: 603.226.0404
Fax: 603.226.6667
Email: info@bittware.com
URL: www.bittware.com
