IP-Cores
IP cores are «description of virtual electronic circuits» with a specific functionality acquired by programming the FPGA and its logic units. They can also be used within the design of specific application or ASIC.
As it is a really specific task, qualified engineers are required to design and implement an IP core to a hardware platform. Once the design is done, the IP-core have a lot of benefit compared to software or other technologies:
- Extremely powerful
- Low consumption
- Liability & redundancy
- Designs can be commercialized and licensed.
- Reusable designs (Flexible)
- time-to-market, etc.
Seven Solutions is also an active member of the Open Hardware Repository where we build new IP cores or improve the existing ones.
IP-cores for interfacing components
We offer cores that provide an interface to control components, manage the connection between elements inside a board or create a communicaction protocol to external peripherals.
Below, some relevant cores created by Seven Solutions:
- Wishbone Serializer
- QDR Controller
- Ethernet UDP
- Controller for generic component.
IP-cores for image processing
Seven Solutions offers IP cores for real-time image processing and fully-tested hardware platforms in which they can be easily used. In this way, your development team can focus on activities related to high-level system architecture. We offer cores for interfacing different components of the boards, real-time image processing models (motion, stereo, edge detection, multispectral analysis…), etc.
Below, some relevant IP-cores produced for image processing:
- Basic processing: scaling, rotation, skew, affine transformation, convolution, etc..
- Edge detection
- Multispectral analysis
- Movement detection
- Background subtraction and tracking
- JPEG compression
We can also provide the hardware platform on which the IP core has been tested in order to use it immediately. Therefore, as we offer a complete service, your company will only need to focus on its main activity without worrying about the integration of the IP cores.
