FPGA Frontrunner Event 2023

Date: 29 March, 2023
Location: Leonardo, Crewe Toll
Website: TechWorks

Sarsen has been participating in the TechWorks community since they were known as NMI. Their mission is to strengthen the UK's deep tech capabilities as a global leader of future technologies, and to achieve their mission they have created adjacent connected communities that are influential in defining and shaping the advancements of industry.

One of the key sectors within this community is the FPGA Front Runners. This group is all about bringing together the UK FPGA & ASIC design communities to discuss all things gate array.

The next FPGA Front Runners event will be hosted by Leonardo UK at their at their major aerospace hub in Edinburgh on March 29^th. The event will gather the brightest technical minds to share insights on current and future industry challenges and opportunities, with a focus on FPGA Design using High Level Languages.

This event provides an excellent opportunity for networking and will include a mini expo with members promoting their products and services to the group.

In a bid to support the development of the UK tech ecosystem students from across the UK will also be invited to the event to bring them closer to the community, give them a deeper understanding about the world of FPGAs and meet members who are actively seeking graduates.

Sarsen is very pleased to be supporting two of the speakers at the event.

Annapolis Micro Systems
Annapolis takes modular approach to designing their products, and provides a complete EcoSystem for SOSA, OpenVPX and PCIe. Their market leading FPGA boards are complemented by ADC & DAC products with significant performance advantages over competitors, including best in class clock and trigger distribution. The extensive product portfolio is supported with real time storage, terabit per second switching, and a number of chassis options.

Noah Donaldson – Chief Technical Officer, Annapolis Micro Systems

Noah Donaldson is CTO of Annapolis Micro Systems. Noah has worked at Annapolis for over 20 years, most recently spearheading Annapolis’ industry-leading SOSA™-aligned 100GbE EcoSystem.

Presentation: New technologies and architectures are being used to digitize, process, and store huge volumes of real-time data at the edge. Discussion of new Versal & Agilex FPGAs, high density small form factors, low latency LVDS/discrete switching, high density VITA 91 connectivity, high-performance HSS I/O, massive optical bandwidth, GPGPU processing, RF personalisation, and MOSA (SOSA, CMOSS, VPX, etc.) architectures.
 

reflex ces
Recognised for their expertise in high-speed applications, analog and hardened systems, Reflex has become a trusted and long-term partner with major OEMs across the world and is well established in numerous markets such as High Frequency Trading, High Performance Computing, Government, Cyber Security and Network Acceleration.

Padrig Guillard – Sales Account Manager, reflex ces

With nearly 15 years of experience in the FPGA market and a hardware engineering background, Padrig provides sales and technical support to his customers in various high-end applications and markets.

Presentation: Overview of JESD204B/C implementation in FPGA SoM
Key Points:
• Evolution of JESD204B/C support in reflex ces SoM products
• How reflex ces allow JESD204B/C prototyping to reduce design risks and time to market