Happy 1 August

Enclustra wishes a happy 1 August to all our customers, partners, and colleagues around the world!

Creating 3D City Maps at 300 km/h

The Leica CityMapper-2 generates 3D maps of cities in one run. Mounted on an airplane that flies at up to 300 km/h over the city, it records all data to generate accurate 3D data. Six 150 MP cameras and a LiDAR synchronized with the lowest possible jitter take an image every 0.9 seconds. The image data is stored to four SSDs on a host PC running Windows 10 – notably a non-real-time operating system.

The image data is transferred via a SLVS-EC (Scalable Low-Voltage Signaling with Embedded Clock) high-speed interface to an Enclustra Mercury+ XU8 SOM and temporarily stored in the SDRAM. Each sensor is connected to it's own SOM. The host PC then initiates the DMA engine of the Enclustra FPGA Manager PCIe IP Solution which transfers all the data through PCIe to the host PC without any further action from the host CPU, thus minimizing the CPU load.

Also integrated into the Enclustra Mercury+ XU8 SOM is a preview function. On a display the pilot or operator can check the image quality during the flight while the application is on mission and make sure the image data is collected correctly.Processing the data stream of almost 2 GBytes/swithout any frame drops is a very ambitious task. If you would like to find out more about this exciting customer project, you can read the whole story .

Read the whole story: Creating 3D City Maps at 300 km/h

Finish Your FPGA Project as Fast as Never Before

Enclustra Design-in Kits help shorten time-to-market for any Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC based application. Be it image processing, machine vision, test & measurement, communication or medical: With an Enclustra System-on-Module, the development time can be halved.

The design-in kits include 2 example applications, to get you started: AI face detection and image classification. They are based on ResNet50 and Xilinx Vitis AI. The ready-made binaries as well as the sources are packed with the box – as well as the extensive documentation how to build it yourself.

To shorten time-to-market as much as possible, Enclustra offers broad design-in support for their products and a comprehensive ecosystem, offering all required hardware, software, and support materials. Detailed documentation and reference designs make it easy to get started. A user manual, user schematics, a 3D model, PCB footprints, differential I/O length tables and the Linux-based Board Support Package (BSP) are all provided. In combination with ready-made base boards and heatsinks, developing an FPGA project has never been easier.

Get your Design-in Kit today: The Fast Way to the Market

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

The entire Enclustra team likes to say thank you for your continued loyalty and faith in us. Thank you for giving us the chance to do what we enjoy.

We wish you and your family the best and hope you enjoy a Merry Christmas and that your holidays are filled with joy and laughter through the New Year.

We look forward to working with you in the years to come.

When Kids Meet FPGAs

13 children from 5^th to 6^th grade took the opportunity to get an insight into the fascinating world of electrical engineering and FPGAs.

In a world where gender-appropriate career guidance is so necessary, it was amazing to see that not only boys were so interested, but girls too.

From bits and bytes, logical gates to production and marketing: The kids got glimpses of how to develop and market an electronic product successfully. They even could solder an electronic board!

We hope they all experienced how exciting electronics is – and working at Enclustra. We have been happy to welcome the next generation of engineers and are looking forward to National Future Day 2023!