The following is a partial listing of the things we do. At Lab X, we use the latest technologies and products to meet customer needs. Not everything we know is mentioned here — if you have something specific in mind that you don't see, just ask. 

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High Level

• Product Conceptualization

• Product Development
• Turnkey Prototyping
• Comprehensive Project Management

Connectivity

• AVB (Audio Video Bridging)
• Lab X MADI (AES-10) Core
• First North American EtherSound Authorized Implementer
• CobraNet Third Party Development Partner (CM-1/2 and CS1810x CobraNet silicon)
• DICE by TC Applied Technologies IEEE-1394 (FireWire®) solutions
• First Aviom A-Net® Partner Provider
• Use of various Ethernet protocols including SNMP, HTTP, and TFTP using (embedded) Linux.

FPGA “Gateware”

• Xilinx
• • Spartan-3/3E/3A/3A-DSP, Virtex-4 LX/FX, various CPLD's
  • System-on-chip integration with MicroBlaze
  • • Development of custom peripherals (LCD controllers, SDHC, audio DSP engines)
    • Performance-profile-driven hardware acceleration (custom DMA, alpha blending, etc.)
    • Development of uCLinux-based host applications on MicroBlaze (PetaLinux)
    • Embedded GUI development atop PetaLinux with Embedded Qt
    • High degree of system integration within single Xilinx FPGAs and external memory
  • Custom PLB bus peripherals
  • Use of Xilinx EAVB (AVB Endpoint) and TEMAC IP Cores
• Altera
• • Cyclone II, Cyclone III, Stratix, Stratix II
  • Development of NIOS-II based SoPCs, uCLinux on NIOS-II
  • Custom Avalon bus peripherals
• Audio
• • High-channel-count audio (AES-10, EtherSound, etc.),
  • Signal processing (parametric EQ, reverb engines, etc.),
  • Signal routing and distribution engines
• Video
• • High-speed image processing algorithms
  • Spatial interpolation for motion compensation / transcoding
  • Deblocking filters for spatio-temporal codecs, Gamma correction, color space rotation, bilinear de-warping
• Implementation of various industry-standard interfaces
• • PCI, PCI-X, USB controllers, SD memory / SDIO cards (full four-bit 25 MB/s interface)
  • 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC/PHYs
  • Analog / dual-link DVI / HDMI video interfaces
• Memory Technologies:  SDR / DDR / GDDR / DDR2 SDRAM, discrete and SODIMMs, QDR SRAMs

Embedded Programming

• Embedded Linux and uCLinux,
• • Applications
  • Kernel development
  • Driver development
• Use of languages in embedded contexts: C, C++, Lua, Assembly, Forth
• Development of event driven user interfaces
• Design of serial control protocols and implementations of embedded parsers
• Interface with various hardware devices:
• • Graphic LCD Displays using Qt for embedded Linux
  • Ethernet chipsets
  • I2S Audio ADCs, DACs, AES-EBU receiver/transmitters
  • Memory devices (FLASH, EEProm, etc.)
  • SPI and I2C Devices
  • Processor to processor interfaces

 

Processors

• Xilinx MicroBlaze and Altera NIOS FPGA “Soft Core” processors
• Freescale i.MX and ColdFire® 32 bit microcontrollers
• Cirrus Logic EP930x ARM 9  processors
• Freescale and Intel 8 bit microcontrollers

DSP

• Analog Devices ADSP-2136x SHARC and Blackfin
• Analog Devices VisualAudio Beta Test site
• Texas Instruments TMS67xx and 64xx DSP families
• Freescale 563xx 24 bit DSP families

 

Hardware Design

• Embedded systems hardware design (timing analysis, component selection, etc.)
• Planar transformer and Switching power supply design
• Analog design
• PoE (Power over Ethernet)
• Schematic capture / review
• PCB layout
• Cost sensitive/manufacturability design experience

 

More

• Contract Manufacturing partners
• Industrial Design and Mechanical partners
• Design of support applications for manufacturing
• Technical Documentation & Support (to end customers)

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