12 Dec 2006 -- ALLEN, Texas, Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. /PRNewswire/ -- A new development tool from Quickfilter Technologies, Inc. simplifies the task of adding precision digital filtering to designs based on the Texas Instruments (TI) MSP430 ultra low- power microcontrollers.
The latest Quickfilter development tool -- designated the MSP-Mojo -- enables quick and easy implementation of precision digital filtering through an embedded single-channel precision digital filter chip, the QF1D512 Simple and Versatile FIR engine (SavFIRe(TM)). Until now, a high-level of filtering performance such as precision digital filtering would have required migrating from the low-power MSP430 microcontroller to a higher-powered controller such as a digital signal processor (DSP) or a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
"The MSP-Mojo target board implements in hardware a typical system based on the MSP430 device with the QF1D512 acting as a filter co-processor," said Steve Brightman, Director of Marketing at Quickfilter Technologies. "By connecting it to the MSP430-eZ430 development tool, the designer can use existing development tools, download code and verify system-level performance in just a few minutes."
The Quickfilter MSP-Mojo has been designed as a plug-in target board for the TI eZ430-F2013 MSP430 USB Stick Development Tool. It features an MSP430F2013 MCU and a QF1D512 SavFIRe chip, along with an input jack for connecting an analog input signal source. An expansion header (header pins included) allows for connection to a user's target system, application breadboard or the QF1D512-DK Development Kit.
About Quickfilter Technologies From Concept to Product in Minutes, not Days
Quickfilter Technologies, Inc utilizes patent pending techniques for implementing programmable ICs that allow an engineer to design a custom circuit for signal processing without the cost and complexity of programming a DSP. Using the Quickfilter solutions, it is possible to create and begin operating custom filtering solutions in less than five minutes. Quickfilter's products are ideally suited for sensors in industrial monitoring and control, medical equipment, homeland security, and engine control applications.
The Quickfilter solutions comprise chips featuring a hardware-based, programmable, precision Finite Impulse Response digital filter engine and, in the case of the Programmable Signal Converter, an analog front end and analog- to-digital converter. A companion hardware development tool and Quickfilter Pro software allows the user to quickly configure the chips for his specific application. This enables customers to rapidly complete a design at significantly lower cost while achieving higher performance. In addition, since the chips are readily reprogrammable, they can be reconfigured in circuit during design, at the time of shipment or in the field.
Quickfilter Technologies Inc. is a private equity funded fabless semiconductor company founded in 2003 by Bob Silco and located in Allen, Texas. The company is developing a family of programmable mixed-signal integrated circuits that convert noisy analog signals into clean, usable digital signals.
About DLP Design
DLP Design manufactures a variety of boards to simplify the designer's task. The MSP-Mojo is the latest of a number of projects DLP Design has undertaken for both Texas Instruments and Quickfilter Technologies, Inc.
Trademarks
SavFIRe is a trademark of Quickfilter Technologies, Inc.
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