Enclustra, Xilinx and ZHAW Present Profinet IRT Core at SPS/IPC/Drives

Enclustra, Xilinx and InES Institute of Embedded Systems of the School of Engineering present the new Profinet RT/IRT Device Solution from the 26th to the 28th of November 2013 at the SPS/IPC/Drives event in Nuremberg, Europe’s leading exhibition for electric automation. Get more information and a demo at booth #6-111 in Nuremberg or click through for more information.

Drive controller IP with high-accuracy speed estimation

Modern high-end motion control systems require accurate reporting of position, velocity and current values; rather than an expensive velocity sensor, our Advanced Velocity Estimator IP core utilizes the vast processing power and temporal resolution capability of today’s FPGAs to estimate the actual velocity for each incoming encoder pulse.

The rise of off-the-shelf Zynq-based boards

When we released the Mars ZX3 SoC module earlier this year, it was the first commercially available Xilinx Zynq-based off-the-shelf board; Max Maxfield, editor in chief of All Programmable Planet and editor of EE Times' Programmable Logic DesignLine, has cannily noted this in a recent blog post, The Rise of Off-the-Shelf Zynq-based Boards. Click through for an interesting read.

Video: Mars ZX3 Android demo

A video demo of the Mars ZX3 module running Android is now online!

The Mars ZX3 SoC module is equipped with a powerful, Xilinx® Zynq®-7020 All Programmable SoC device, making it an excellent hardware platform for embedded operating systems such as Android, Linux, VxWorks and eCos - see Android in action on the Mars ZX3 page.

Mars ZX3 modules now in production

Mars ZX3 modules with production FPGAs are now in production! Modules with both commercial and industrial temperature grades are expected to be available in May; orders are now being accepted.