JC Electronica - FPGA products and services

FPGA Products and Services

Are you in the need of high speed, real-time, deep computing? If so, microcontrollers most probably would not be enough, even with the widest 32-bit models at the fastest clocks available.

Just a few years ago, FPGA were huge silicon monsters used exclusively for the highest-end products, like computing appliances in aerospace or avionics, radar signal processing, etc. But nowadays, they are affordable for some consumer and industrial appliances.

Products and services
	Firmware Design and Development
	Design of firmware for FPGA and CPLD: - Signal processing, data acquisition - Math computing/ co-processing - High speed communications - Digital filters, high speed controllers - Image recognition, biometrics, etc.
	PCB manufacturing
	Multilayer fine pitch PCB can be outsourced in quality partner companies located in Asia. We manufacture your design or create it from your needs. Low cost even for prototypes and short series.
	Rework, Repair and Reballing
	Careful and professional rework of defective components (desoldering/ reballing/ soldering). Repair kits also available.
	Development boards
	Both custom and standard development boards for most models of FPGA and CPLD from Xilinx, Altera, etc. Economy adapter boards to 0.1" raster pin array . Both unassembled and assembled boards available.
	Stencils and soldering tools
	Low-cost laser-cut Mylar stencils for prototyping and short manufacturing series. Standard framed laser cut aluminium stencils. Kits, tools and supplies for soldering

FPGA vs. Microcontrollers
advantages of FPGA	disadvantages of FPGA
Parallel computing, with incomparable processing speeds. Microcontrollers cannot perform real-time DSP of many real world signals, like audio or video.	Higher cost. But compensated with an easier and faster design, as well as more robust end application.
Soft peripherals. UART, I2C, USB, Timers, MACs, DSPs, multipliers, etc. are designed to fit your needs and included as many as needed.	BGA packages are the norm. Fine pitch multi-layer PCB are required. Soldering and rework not easy.
Intrinsic robustness of HDL languages, shorter debugging time, faster time-to-market.	Higher power consumption. Proportional to the clock. A simple heat sink, forced convection (fan) or even fluid cooling can be necessary.
Open source IP cores available, free and already proven.
Very high pin count, permitting single chip solutions.
Standard languages. Almost no problems with portability.
Embedded processors. If still some sequential processor is needed, any of the standard open source soft processors can be included.
High speed. FPGAs swallow data at hundreds of MHz, and already reached the GHz