FREMONT, Calif., Jan. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- BEEcube Inc. will be exhibiting at DesignCon 2011 from February 1-2, 2011 at booth 802 in the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, CA.  This will be BEEcube's first year exhibiting at DesignCon.  

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BEEcube will be showing demonstrations with the BEE3 and BEE4 hardware platforms.  One of our demonstrations is a Software Defined Radio (SDR) reference design that highlights BEE3 as an SDR prototyping platform - using our FPGA based continuous wideband vector signal generator, controlled by software in real-time via Wind River's VxWorks over Gigabit Ethernet, with carrier frequency tone sweeps ranging from 0 to 2GHz.  The ADC expansion board simultaneously captures analog output with data being displayed directly and integrated with Matlab. BEE3's ADC can sample up to 3 GHz, offering a true direct RF sampling capability.

The other demonstration is a video processor reference design where captured date streams are downloaded via Gigabit Ethernet, and analyzed based on a remote workstation using industry-standard waveform viewers for low-level RTL signal debugging.  And within the same design remote-access of dual 2GB frame buffers in native frame format, which allows live video to be delayed, paused, or manipulated in real-time, using uniquely simultaneous "full-speed" RTL level and application level debug features.

In addition, BEEcube's Joseph Rothman will be giving a presentation on our accepted paper, "Mixed Signal FPGA Based Prototyping Issues" on January 31st as part of the conference.  This presentation will review the current state of the art of FPGA prototyping technology, especially as it relates to new high-speed applications and chip designs.  Though individual FPGA chip capacity continues to increase, designs themselves seem to be growing at even a faster pace.  Is FPGA based prototyping fast enough for RTL Verification or Algorithm Validation?  Topics addressed will be: performance bottlenecks, partitioning, real-world interface issues, Debugging, unique mixed signal ADC/DAC like prototyping issues.

About BEEcube

BEEcube, a leading provider of advanced system-level FPGA prototyping platforms, was founded in 2006.  Spinning out of the University of California, Berkeley, BEEcube's founders include the best academic minds in Silicon Valley and are credited with founding a number of leading companies, including Atheros Communications.

There are over 175 BEE systems deployed worldwide in major corporations and top universities. Corporations currently using BEE systems include: Xilinx, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems, Aerospace Corporation, and Thales Group.  Leading universities include: University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Imperial College London, Barcelona Super Computing Center, Tokyo University, Tsinghua University, and Peking University.

For more information contact info@beecube.com or visit the website: www.beecube.com.  Telephone: (510) 252-1136. Facsimile: (888) 700-8917.  BEEcube's corporate headquarters is based at 39465 Paseo Padre Parkway, Suite 3700, Fremont, CA 94538.

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