Applications
Nearly 20 years experience delivering solutions for a wide range of system and logic design applications.
Whether FPGA or ASIC, rapid prototyping or end product development, cutting edge performance or microwatt power, Dillon Engineering provides design services for your application needs.
The following is a categorized listing of our application areas of expertise.
Whether FPGA or ASIC, rapid prototyping or end product development, cutting edge performance or microwatt power, Dillon Engineering provides design services for your application needs.
The following is a categorized listing of our application areas of expertise.
DSP/HPEC Applications
We are a world-class provider of custom FPGA and ASIC logic for digital signal processing (DSP) applications. Our internally developed logic design and modeling capabilities are ideal for realizing your high performance embedded computing (HPEC) solutions. We are the experts in porting your high-level language algorithms to real-time heterogeneous processing systems.
A representative listing of our DSP and hardware accelerator designs and functions:
A representative listing of our DSP and hardware accelerator designs and functions:
- Fast Fourier Transform IP Core designs, standard and custom
- Fully verified designs suitable for FPGA and/or ASIC
- Modular options and techniques to balance performance and logic utilization
- Floating point or any bit-width fixed point
- Radix-2, radix-4, mixed-radix
- 2D and Ultra Long FFT
- FIR, IIR, CIC, Adaptive Filter implementations
- Windowing, smoothing, weighting, apodization, decimation, interpolation functions
- Echo location (e.g. radar) functions, such as correlations and frequency-domain filtering
- Image processing functions, such as image rotation, pixel interpolation, spatial filtering, convolution kernels
- Data, image, and video compression
- Floating Point IP Library
- We understand how to achieve optimal full-throughput pipeline processing in the presence of bottlenecks such as shared memories, feedback loops, data transpositions and pipeline stalls.
- We know how best to offload intensive math functions from a CPU, considering all factors such as bidirectional interface sharing, pipeline latency effects, and data path/control path separation and interdependencies.
CPU Applications
- External or internal hard/soft CPU connectivity
- Highly integrated system-on-chip
- Xilinx Microblaze/PowerPC PLB/OPB/APU/FSL
- Embedded CPU
- Control-plane processor for configuration and control of DSP designs
- Algorithm processor with intensive computation offload via hardware accelerator coprocessing, or "hardware threading"
- Flexible, highly programmable applications such as software defined radio
- Bus interface controllers including parallel bus, low-baud serial, high-speed serial
- Memory interface controllers
- DMA engines
- Shared bus and crossbar connectivity
Networking Applications
- Layer 2/2.5/3/4 context processing
- Branch-intensive packet identification and modification at wire speed
- Ethernet, Sonet, PPP, TCP/IP, ATM, MPLS
- Arbitration algorithms
- Virtual queuing
Storage Applications
- Servo controllers
- Network attached storage
- SAS and SATA protocols
Low-power Applications
- Implantable medtech devices
- SWaP-constrained embedded systems