Analog Devices Intoduces CED Toolkit

Analog Devices, Inc. has introduced an advanced Converter Evaluation and Development (CED) toolkit. The toolkit features a user-programmable, FPGA-based development environment and data converter software drivers.

“The ability to quickly move from component selection to product design dramatically improves time-to-market,” said Mike Byrne, marketing and applications manager, Precision Data Converters, Analog Devices. “ADI’s CED toolkit, the only tool with the hardware and software required to demonstrate converter performance in a real development environment, accomplishes this feat. Moreover, the toolkit uses the same hardware for both evaluation and development, eliminating thousands of dollars in unnecessary software and equipment that would otherwise be required for performance analysis, programming and code development.”

The development toolkit also consists of a reconfigurable FPGA-based platform that can be reprogrammed via the USB connection using supplied Verilog code. Users can then develop and run customised code to precisely match the converters to their design environment while performing specific system-level design tasks.

“ADI’s CED toolkit has a large, 36-Mbyte memory capacity and a simple setup for fast, accurate converter evaluation,” said Byrne. “The development environment is familiar and easy to programme. Competing platforms lack source and sample code, are not user programmable, or require external power supplies—and none of the tools available today facilitates design.”