Chandler, AZ and Helsinki, Finland, January 6, 2012– Today Stellamar announced it has inked a deal with the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) for use of its All Digital ADC IP core on its latest Microsemi FPGA based Lunar Landing Mission.
Stellamar developed and delivered a customized ADC core for FMI on a two week time frame. This unique ability is due to the completely digital nature of the IP core, and highlights Stellamar’s unique ability to deliver analog capability in a purely digital process.
“We are very happy to be expanding our international partnership base with FMI. FMI is a leading research and development institute with great expertise in space research,” says Allan Chin CEO of Stellamar. “Many digital FPGA designers are not aware of the array of previously analog blocks that can now be insourced to the FPGA. These teams are also not used to the ASIC-like customization they can now get. Forward looking institutions like FMI are in a great position to take advantage of this technology.”
FMI selected the Digital ADC IP based on Stellamar’s unique ability to deliver the following critical benefits to their missions:
• A customized solution at a fraction of time and cost
• Drastically lower power
• Reduced board space
• Reduced points of failure by cutting external ADC parts
• License flexibility
• Strong partnership with Microsemi
• High quality support team
About the All Digital ADC
The All Digital ADC solution from Stellamar is a family of ADC IP, which utilizes only digital library cells to provide analog to digital functionality without complex analog blocks. The IP can be implemented in purely digital processes such as FPGAs or digital ASICs, making them suitable for a wide range of applications including consumer, industrial and aerospace applications with radiation requirements. Stellamar is happy to be partners with Actel/Microsemi and Xilinx in the FPGA market.
About Stellamar
Stellamar is a full service design, consulting and IP licensing firm specializing in digital and mixed signal applications, with particular deep domain expertise in creating solutions that enable analog functions to be implemented in a digital environment.
If you would like to learn more about how the Digital ADC can help your next design, please visit www.stellamar.com, or contact [email protected] for more information.