Design Services

Design Services Diagram

The Lab X Technologies Model:
Design Services | Xavity AVB Connectivity | Product Concepts

Lab X has extensive expertise in network connectivity and in the processing of digital media. Lab X’s breadth of design and implementation capabilities include hardware, firmware / software, gateware (FPGA HDL), PC based GUI design, and comprehensive project management services.

Lab X’s focus on AV applications for networked technology has created an extensive domain knowledge, whereby interactions with our clients are faster and more seamless than a “jack of all trades” design house.

As media networking is becoming a “must have” for products, clients utilize Lab X’s design expertise to allow them to quickly add network connectivity, while keeping their internal resources focused on their unique value adds.

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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-6, Spartan-3/3E/3A-DSP, Virtex-4, Virtex 5
    • 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
      • 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 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 Linuxand uCLinux
    • Applications
    • Kernel development
    • Driver development
  • Use of languages in embedded contexts: C, C++, Assembly
  • 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.)
  • Schematic capture / review
  • PCB layout
  • Planar transformer and Switching power supply design
  • Analog design
  • PoE (Power over Ethernet)
  • 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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