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Altera Partner Profile: Microtronix

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Overview

Empowering customers worldwide for over 20 years, Microtronix specializes in the development of cost-effective FPGA-based hardware, intellectual property (IP) cores, PCB, and software solutions for custom networking, communications, and embedded applications.

Having ported the µClinux kernel distribution to the Altera® Nios® embedded processor architecture in 2001, Microtronix continues to support this technology on the second-generation Nios II processor with its line of engineering FPGA design kits and IP core products. 

Today the company focuses their hardware talent on developing high-performance IP cores including a line of SDRAM memory controllers and the application of FPGA cores for accelerating high-definition (HD) video processing and conversion.  Their software expertise is in developing low-level hardware drivers, such as PCITM, PCI Express® , and Ethernet, TCP/IP protocols, and Linux kernel development. 

Microtronix  FPGA development kits, design kits, and IP cores support the following capabilities and applications: Ethernet, USB, processor bridge interfaces such as the Avalon® bus, SDR/DDR/Mobile DDR, DDR2, and DDR3 memory devices, HD video processing and encoding/decoding, DVI, PCIe®, LVDS serializer/deserializer (SERDES) Camera Link, and I2C master, slave, and parallel I/O (PIO) IP solutions.

Available Products

Microtronix currently provides the products listed in Tables 1 through 5.

Table 1. Available AMPP-Approved Certified IP Cores (1)
Product Description Supported Devices
Avalon Multi-Port SDRAM Memory Controller The Microtronix Avalon Multi-Port SDRAM Memory Controller IP core is designed for building high-performance multi-master streaming data systems. The easy-to-use core simplifies memory designs by supporting SDR, DDR, DDR2, and Mobile DDR memory devices using a single system bus interface.

Stratix® IV, Stratix III, Stratix II, Stratix GX, Cyclone® IV, Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Arria® II GX 
Avalon Mobile DDR Memory Controller  The Microtronix Avalon Mobile DDR Memory Controller IP core is designed for building high-performance Avalon Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) and Avalon Streaming (Avalon-ST) multi-master streaming data systems.  Advanced design features enable maximum system clock rates using low-speed FPGAs and standard memory devices, lowering your production cost.  Stratix IV, Stratix III, Stratix II, Stratix GX, Cyclone IV, Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Arria II GX
Streaming Multi-Port SDRAM Memory Controller  The Microtronix Streaming Multi-Port SDRAM Memory Controller IP core is designed for building high-performance multi-master streaming data systems. The easy-to-use core supports SDR, DDR, Mobile DDR, and DDR2 memory devices. Stratix III, Stratix II, Stratix GX, Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Arria GX
HyperDrive Multi-Port DDR2 Memory Controller The Microtronix HyperDrive Multi-Port DDR2 Memory Controller IP core is designed for building high-performance multi-master streaming data systems. The easy-to-use core maximizes the date rate of DDR2 memory systems. Stratix III, Stratix II, Stratix GX, Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Arria GX
Lancero- Scatter-Gather DMA Engine for PCI Express  The Microtronix Lancero-Scatter-Gather DMA Engine for PCI Express provides either a Target Bridge or a Descriptor Bridge SGDMA solution for PCI Express endpoints.  The IP connects seamlessly to Altera's PCI Express hard IP core, providing a transparent high-speed datapath over PCI Express. Stratix IV, Stratix III, Stratix II, Stratix GX, Cyclone IV, Cyclone III, Cyclone II, Arria II GX
I2C Master-Slave-PIO Controller The Microtronix I2C Master-Slave-PIO Controller IP core is a complete I2C solution offering three modes of operation: I2C master controller, I2C slave controller, and an 8-bit PIO slave device. Stratix II, Cyclone II, MAX® II 
Video LVDS SerDes Transmitter-Receiver  The Microtronix Video LVDS SerDes Transmitter- Receiver IP core provides a complete, easy-to-use SERDES solution to interface a wide variety of video host systems to flat panel displays.  The transmitter and receiver cores support both 28-bit (8-bit RGB) and 35-bit (10-bit RGB) parallel data configurations using either 4 or 5 LVDS serial channels.  Transmitter and receiver modules can be cascaded to create dual and quad LVDS links supporting display panel resolutions up to 1080p at 120 Hz and beyond. Stratix II, Cyclone II, MAX II

Note:

  1. The "Altera Megafunction Partners Program (AMPP) Approved" certification indicates IP cores that meet Altera's sales standards and pass rigorous engineering testing.

Table 2.  Additional IP Cores (Not AMPP-Approved)
Product Description Supported Devices
Camera Link Transceiver The Microtronix Camera Link Transceiver IP core is designed for building vision systems incorporating Camera Link communication interfaces using Base, Medium, and Full Channel-Link configurations.  The core supports camera control signals, serial communication, and video data. Cyclone IV, Cyclone III, Cyclone II

Table 3. Development Boards
Product  Supported Devices
ViClaro III Host Board  Cyclone III
ViClaro II HD Video Enhancement Development Platform Cyclone II
ViClaro III HD Video IP Development Kit  Cyclone III
3G-SDI Broadcast IP Development kit, featuring Altera Stratix III FPGA  Stratix III
SDI-ASI Video-over-IP Development Kit, featuring Altera Stratix III FPGA  Stratix III
Cyclone II EP2C35 - Firefly II PSK Development Kit  Cyclone II
Cyclone II EP250 - Firefly II PSK Development Kit  Cyclone II

Table 4. Design Kits
Product  Description
Lancelot VGA Controller IP Design Kit  Santa Cruz Daughter Card
Camera Link Design Kit  HSMC Daughter Card
Video Over IP Add-on Kit   HSMC Daughter Card

Table 5. Daughter Cards
Product Description
Cyclone II EP2C35 Firefly II Module  Santa Cruz Daughter Card
Cyclone II EP2C50 Firefly II Module  Santa Cruz Daughter Card
HDMI Receiver, Transmitter  HSMC Daughter Card
32 MB Flash, Serial Port  HSMC Daughter Card
Gigabit Ethernet PHY-HDMI Transmitter  HSMC Daughter Card
Quad Link LVDS Interface  HSMC Daughter Card

Additional Services and Features

Microtronix provides the following additional services and features:

  • Hardware engineering design and development
  • Board-level prototype design and manufacturing
  • Nios II system-on-a-chip (SOC) core design and customization
  • IP core design, customization, and integration
  • Conversion of C-code algorithms into register transfer level (RTL)
  • HD video processing IP
  • Software kernel, device driver, and application development
  • Linux consulting and design
  • Hardware design consulting
  • Technical support

Contact Information

For additional information, contact:
Microtronix Datacom, Ltd.
9-1510 Woodcock Street
London, ON Canada
N6H 5S1
Phone: 01 (519) 690-0091
Fax: 01 (519) 690-0092
Email: sales@microtronix.com
URL: www.microtronix.com

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