July News: Design Checklist: Is Your FPGA Design Reusable?

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July 2011   www.altera.com   Monthly Spotlight Design Checklist: Is Your FPGA Design Reusable? Read this article to learn how design reuse improves the quality of your FPGA design, shortens your design and verification cycle, and allows faster time to market. The design checklist helps you create a reusable FPGA design for your next project. Read more and get on the right track.   Software, Intellectual Property, and Development Kits Buy Quartus II Software and Get a Free Nios II Processor Get a free Nios® II processor license when you purchase Quartus® II Subscription Edition software. Offer good through September 30, 2011. Download Now! Quartus II Software v11.0 Service Pack 1 This service pack includes initial support for Stratix® V GX and GT devices and final power models for Cyclone® IV GX devices. Technology and End Markets Webcast: Accelerate Video Design with FPGAs and IP Cores Find out how FPGAs provide a customizable solution and quick intellectual property (IP) integration to build your video design faster. Video: Watch a 5-Minute Online Demo on VEEK with VIP Suite See the CycloneIV E FPGA-based Video and Embedded Evaluation Kit (VEEK) running video format conversion using Altera's Video and Image Processing (VIP) Suite.) Webcast: Accelerate Your FPGA-Based DSP Designs See how a design framework with IP cores and a variable-precision DSP block increase precision and performance for your application. Training and Events Workshop: BeMicro SDK Motor Control Kit Makes Design Easier New BeMicro SDK Motor Control Kit lets you scale a motor control design easily in a single FPGA. Attend a hands-on workshop and get a free kit! New Free Online Course: Variable-Precision DSP Blocks in FPGAs Learn how the variable-precision DSP blocks in Stratix V, Arria® V, and Cyclone V FPGAs address today's signal processing challenges. Updated Instructor-led Course: Quartus II Timing Analysis Learn to constrain and analyze a design for timing using the latest features of the TimeQuest timing analyzer in Quartus II software v. 11.0 Updated Instructor-led Course: Advanced TimeQuest Be more productive writing SDC files and performing timing analysis for advanced interfaces with the features in Quartus II v11.0 software. Support and Literature Run ModelSim-Altera Software Directly from Quartus II Software Let Quartus II software set up your ModelSim®-Altera® simulation so you can focus on your design. This walkthrough shows you how. Altera in the News Radar Basics Part 2: Pulse Doppler Radar, EE Times Read the second of a 5-part series on radar basics. Part 2 focuses on Pulse Doppler radar processing for target detection and discrimination. Implementing Forward Error Correction in Optical Networking, ATCA Newsletter With growing bandwidth and OTN deployments evolving to 100G, there's an increase in FEC techniques to navigate the OTN landscape. Most Popular News from Last Issue 5 New Qsys Technical Training Courses—Online and Instructor-Led Select from 5 new training courses that will help you take advantage of the Qsys system integration tool in Quartus® II software. Choose from free one-hour online classes or 1-2 day courses. Learn how to build systems using Qsys, design with the Nios II processor and Qsys, and develop software for the Nios II Processor. Take a class now.   Click to enlarge To ensure that you receive future issues of the Inside Edge eNewsletter, please add announcements@altera.com to your address book. As a subscriber to the Inside Edge, you will receive a monthly email newsletter. To unsubscribe from this newsletter or manage all of your subscriptions please visit our Email Subscription Center. Subscribe to other Altera email updates: Product Announcements & Updates DSP eNewsletter Embedded eNewsletter Webcast & Video eNewsletter Technical Updates     Connect with Altera:            Copyright © 1995-2011 Altera Corporation, 101 Innovation Drive, San Jose, California 95134, USA ALTERA, ARRIA, CYCLONE, HARDCOPY, MAX, MEGACORE, NIOS, QUARTUS & STRATIX are Reg. U.S. Pat. & Tm. Off. and Altera marks in and outside the U.S.