Opal Kelly Blog

Experts’ Logic Analyzers Available, free, on the Opal Kelly Website. Portland, Oregon – June 10, 2010 – Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful USB-based FPGA modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the first result of its “Logic Analyzer in a Day” Challenge. Opal Kelly Expert Rainer Malzbender designed, in less than 10 […]

Experts’ Opal Kelly Logic Analyzers will be available, for free, on the Opal Kelly website. Portland, Oregon – Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful USB-based FPGA modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the “Logic Analyzer in a Day” Experts’ Challenge, using an Opal Kelly module and its integrated FrontPanel Software Developement Kit […]

by Jake Janovetz, President, Opal Kelly Incorporated Designing for industrial applications presents many challenges, but it also allows an engineer to be creative, spread her wings, and explore new technologies to solve the task at hand. Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and, in particular, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) FPGA modules can be just the ticket to attack […]

TechBites article and video | FPGA Central Release | PR Web Release | FPGA Blog Release Portland, Oregon – Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful FPGA USB 2.0 modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, today announced the Opal Kelly Experts Program. This program introduces Opal Kelly customers to qualified Opal Kelly expert consultants to […]

Opal Kelly XEM3010 off-the-shelf FPGA USB 2.0 Module is used by Texas Instruments as a key component in their new ADS1675 Reference Design evaluation platform. The Opal Kelly XEM module reduces TI’s development time and cost. Portland, Oregon – Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful FPGA USB 2.0 modules that provide essential device-to-computer interconnect, […]

ECN Magazine’s cover story this month is “Bridging the Worlds of Hardware and Software with USB-based FPGA” written by Opal Kelly’s founder and president, Jake Janovetz. http://www.ecnmag.com/article-bridging-hardware-and-software-091009.aspx

Our friend Clive (Max) Maxfield at TechBits added a brief video to his blog: TechBites Blog: New FPGA USB 2.0 Module Speeds Design

PORTLAND, OR – Opal Kelly, a leading producer of powerful FPGA USB 2.0 modules that provide the essential device-to-computer interconnect for efficient and fast product prototyping, testing, development, and OEM integration, today announced the volume availability of its new XEM5010 module. Based on the powerful Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA, the XEM5010 delivers 256-MB DDR2, 36-Mb SSRAM, […]

Clive (Max) Maxfield of Chip Design Magazine writes about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) use of Opal Kelly XEM3050 modules in a cost-saving project to re-use old warehoused equipment in his Chips and Dips section. The USPS uses Opal Kelly’s FPGA USB 2.0 Modules in a Real-Time Process Control Application

Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are the most flexible and capable devices available to interface to a large variety of system devices such as memories, data acquisition (ADC/DAC), image sensors, displays, and so on. Often, the goal is to interface these system devices to a software infrastructure running on a workstation platform using a Windows, Linux […]