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High Productivity, Robust FPGA Programming Tool

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N68936-12-C-0191
Agency Tracking Number: N111-014-0557
Amount: $749,901.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N111-014
Solicitation Number: 2011.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2011
Award Year: 2012
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2012-09-21
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-09-11
Small Business Information
20271 Goldenrod Lane Suite 2008
Germantown, MD -
United States
DUNS: 008171329
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Babst
 President
 (301) 977-5970
 mspb@dsplogic.com
Business Contact
 Michael Babst
Title: President
Phone: (301) 977-5970
Email: mspb@dsplogic.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are a very attractive, and often necessary, computational resource for many Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications. Their balance of performance, power consumption, and size make them ideally suited to SWAP-constrained sensor, communication, and guidance applications. However, the lengthy FPGA development and validation cycle, with limited application portability, and limited design re-use contribute to relatively high life-cycle costs compared to modern embedded software systems. A faster and more robust method to program advanced Digital Signal Processing (DSP) algorithms on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) is required. We propose the development of an Electronic System Level (ESL) tool targeted specifically toward programming DSP algorithms on FPGAs. Algorithms are described by algorithm experts at a high-level using a highly-expressive model of computation. The model of computation also supports robust FPGA code generation and verification capability to eliminate the error-prone phases of low-level design specification and manual hardware programming by dedicated hardware engineers.

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