Actel announced several configurable DSP IP cores expanding the design creation capabilities for the RTAX2000D and RTAX4000D DSP FPGAs. The cores enable designers to create common DSP functions such as filters (FIR, IIR) and transforms (FFT, IFT, DCT). Using a graphical user interface (GUI) embedded in Actel’s Libero® Integrated Design Environment (IDE), the cores are targeted to RTAX-DSP space-flight FPGAs.

The three cores are supported through software dialog windows allowing for the selection and configuration of multiple common DSP functions as Multiplier, Multiplier with Adder or Subtractor and Multiplier with Accumulator. The cores generate structural netlists in either Verilog or VHDL and can be instantiated into a complex RTAX-DSP FPGA design using Actel’s Libero IDE and SmartDesign graphical block system design creation tool. Handbooks are available to assist designers in building various DSP functions.

The cores are available immediately and are included with an Actel Libero IDE Platinum software license, priced at $2495 per seat. Node-locked and floating licenses are available.