Bluewater Systems wins international technology innovation award
Tuesday, 01 August, 2006
Bluewater Systems of Christchurch has received the EDN Innovation Award for Best Application of Programmable Logic at the 2006 Technology Futures Conference in Melbourne.
The company is believed to be the first in New Zealand company to win such an award in Australia.
Bluewater's entry related to the complex programming required to complete a multimillion-dollar project for NEC in 2005. The company was contracted to develop a data storage unit as a replacement for the traditional magnetic tape drives used in NEC telephone switches.
Controlled by an ARM processor, the project uses programmable logic, an Altera FPGA, to emulate the timings and commands expected by various legacy switch models. This enables a single product to communicate and operate seamlessly across multiple switch models and interfaces.
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