National Instruments Increases IP
Availability With New NI LabVIEW FPGA IPNet
Enhanced Online Resource and Community Offers New IP for Any
LabVIEW FPGA Application
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NEWS RELEASE Oct. 19, 2010 National Instruments today
introduced its new version of NI LabVIEW
FPGA IPNet, an online resource that helps digital design
engineers browse, download and share the latest intellectual
property (IP) for field-programmable gate array (FPGA) design applications. IPNet
aggregates IP from many sources, including NI R&D, the
community of LabVIEW graphical system design software
users and third-party developers, into a single online location.
The latest version incorporates new IP functions, a new user
interface with enhanced search filtering and direct download
capabilities as well as an updated look and feel that makes it
easier for engineers to share information about all FPGA
development areas.
As more engineers use FPGAs in their designs, they are looking to
leverage existing IP to speed up the development process, said Mike
Santori, business and technology fellow at National Instruments. It
can be difficult to find the right IP for the job, especially as
development gets more complex. The rapid growth of IPNet
participation indicates that it fills the much-needed role as a
central resource for making FPGA design easier, and this all-new
version will greatly enhance engineers IP-integration
experience.
IPNet includes hundreds of IP blocks and functions from NI and
other companies, such as the Xilinx CORE Generator. It offers large
collections of IP in categories such as control, data acquisition,
generation, digital protocols, encryption, math, RF, signal
processing and more. It also includes IP for SPI/I2C and
Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) components as well as an NI
peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming core for 800 MB/s FPGA I/O streaming
across the PXI
Express bus.
The new version features fully integrated global search including a
filter that facilitates sorting results by category, supported
versions and rating. Engineers can then download IP directly from a
table view, which makes it easier to download.
Additionally, engineers seeking ways to share their own IP and FPGA
examples can upload their blocks to IPNet. IPNet also can serve as
an effective distribution channel for NI collaborators who wish to
sell their LabVIEW FPGA-related IP, whether their functions are
personally custom-created or developed by an established
organization.
To learn more about IPNet and download and share FPGA IP, readers
can visit www.ni.com/ipnet.
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