DSP co-processing kit

Altera Corporation has announced its DSP Development Kit, Cyclone II Edition featuring low-cost FPGAs, Texas Instruments' ADS5500 analog-to-digital converters and an interface to TI's DSP starter kits (DSKs).

The kits allows engineers to design, prototype and debug digital signal processing co-processing applications for wireless infrastructure, medical diagnostic, imaging and test and measurement equipment.

The kit provides a platform including a development board, the latest version of the Mathworks' Simulink software and Altera's DSP Builder and Quartus II design software.

In addition to the ADS5500 ADC, the development board uses a number of other TI devices including digital-to-analog converters, audio CODECs and power management ICs to meet the power supply requirements of the Cyclone II device and other onboard components.

The development board has an external memory interface connector to interface directly with TI's DSKs, facilitating the development of TI DSP and Cyclone II FPGA-based co-processor designs.