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Overview
Using their extensive design experience, Sapphire Computers Inc., offers their
clients anything from a module in an FPGA design to a complete turnkey digital system.
Sapphire specializes in using Xilinx FPGAs to reduce system cost, shorten time to
market and allow flexibility in updates/modification. Because a system is not just
hardware their in-house expertise provides complete software solutions along with
an optimized hardware design.
Specialization
Sapphire Computers Inc. are specialists in high-speed and high utilization FPGA
designs, combining expertise in the latest microprocessor and digital systems with
extensive software experience.
Recent Projects
- Prototype Tower CPU card design for Gamma ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST).
A Power PC 603e based VME card with a 256M byte Reed-Solomon data corrected main
memory, 1 Meg L2 cache, Ethernet, ECC flash, power and clock control etc. The Reed-Solomon,
L2 cache controller, DMA, interrupt controllers, Hamming ECC corrector are custom
designed in three XLA Xilinx FPGAs.
- Implemented the FPGAs for a hi-speed Viterbi Decoder based Demodulator System.
This project depends on the reconfiguration of FPGAs to support multiple modulation
schemes with minimal hardware cost.
- Matlab/Win32 software-only Real-Time Audio Processor. Real-time audio transient
detector implemented using The Mathworks’ Simulink/Real-Time Workshop. This included
drivers for SoundBlaster audio and .wav file I/O and Simulink blocks for frame-based
DSP processing.
- Re-Engineered a Data Formatter for a fiber optic data link to a industrial inkjet
printhead. This project required re-engineering board functionality without changing
the physical board. Sapphire added 50% more logic to an existing FPGA design and
doubled the system clock rate with no PC board or component changes. The resulting
design utilized 100% of the FPGA CLBs and provided the customer with the all required
throughput and functionality.
Additional Designs
- Test equipment for a 1 Gigabit fiber optic link within a raster image processor
PCI based ICE unit.
- Ethernet to RF modem interface, simulators for satellite communication equipment.
- Test equipment for inkjet print controllers.
- Reverse engineered and enhanced an existing FPGA design where source files were
unavailable.
Additional Expertise
- Software expertise ranging from microcontroller code to configure FPGAs to Win32
C++ or Visual Basic GUI designs.
Training:
- Xilinx Certified Basic Training
- Advanced Xilinx Design
- Reconfigurable Computing.
Contact Partner
Sapphire Computers, Inc.
Dan Rudolf, President
3590 Grinnell Road
Yellow Springs, OH 45387
Phone: +1 937-767-1062
Fax: +1 937 -767-4846
Email: drudolf@erinet.com
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