RFEL has announced that it has extended its design service and consultancy range to include Xilinx’ new Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC. This merges together a mature and powerful ARM multicore processing system with the latest, high speed, Xilinx 28nm FPGA programmable logic into a single chip.

High-performance, feature rich Channelizer addresses demands of next generation Electronic Surveillance, Satcoms and Wireless Base Station applications

High-performance, feature rich Channelizer addresses demands of next generation Electronic Surveillance, Satcoms and Wireless Base Station applications

This paper gives an outline description of the Pipelined Frequency Transform (PFT) hardware architecture, which was developed as an answer to the problem of channelising very wideband (80MHz+) signals.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has announced that it is adding Image Processing IP (Intellectual Property) to its extensive range of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) solutions that run on FPGAs.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has extended its world-class expertise in digital RF channelisers to encompass the next processing stage of the communication system pipeline – demodulator cores. “There is a growing demand, particularly in the surveillance market, to be able to monitor large numbers of channels simultaneously,” explained John Summers, RFEL’s CEO. “We are now extending our world-leading capability in very hi...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has extended the range of its Digital Down Converter (DDC) technology so that it can now process up to 1 GHz of bandwidth (2Gsps ADC rate) input and provide a narrower band output. This technology can operate with fixed frequencies and bandwidths or be fully flexible as required.

His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent visited RF Engines Limited (RFEL) at their offices on the Isle of Wight yesterday. The visit was part of a tour to meet with Isle of Wight companies that have recently won the Queen’s Award. The UK has always been a leader in innovation and these awards are designed to recognise companies that are pioneering new and innovative technologies that can compete successfully in the world market and bring in bus...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has developed a highly sophisticated, 32 channel RF signal generator that is designed to enable challenging RF environments to be recreated in labs to test RF equipment. RFEL’s world class expertise in RF and signal processing has enabled them to create a complete solution on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA chip that is run within a PC on a PCI-express card. The PCI Upconverter is a very flexible and configurable system tha...

Representatives of RF Engines Limited (RFEL) recently attended a ceremony at Buckingham Palace where they were presented to the Queen, following the company winning the 2009 Queen’s Award for Innovation. John Summers, RFEL’s CEO, said, “It was a great honour to meet Her Majesty, Prince Phillip and other members of the Royal family and represent RF Engines at Buckingham Palace. So much of the company’s work is of a confiden...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), who specialise in high performance electronic signal processing design work, has been presented with the 2009 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category by the Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight, Major General Martin White CB CBE DL, on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the specialists in high performance signal processing design work, have been contracted by EONIC of Delft in the Netherlands for the development of a novel digital downconverter to be used in one of their latest signal processing platforms.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has announced that it has won the 2009 Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for its unique range of digital signal processing technologies. RFEL’s award winning* designs enable fast moving events occurring in the radio spectrum (even rapidly moving signals or fleeting, hopping signals) to be identified, acquired and then extracted for analysis.

Isle of Wight company, RF Engines, has been announced as a finalist in the 2008 South East Business Awards. The Awards, managed by the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), recognise companies that have demonstrated a powerful business contribution to the region. The Awards celebrate successes across eight different categories that include rewarding companies’ sustainability initiatives, contribution to the community, and innovativ...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the specialist in high performance signal processing design, has announced significant new contract awards in line with its product-led strategy announced earlier last year. RFEL is continuing to major on innovative signal processing on FPGA, but has added full product developments to their range of capabilities.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL) has announced the availability of its latest ‘Vector Rotation/Translation’ IP core product. This core offers a sub-set of the features provided by the traditional CORDIC algorithm and dependant on the application, delivers significant savings in cost, power and size.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), specialists in signal processing design, has won another research grant from the UK Government. This latest grant by the South East Development Agency (SEEDA) is to undertake research into a novel and flexible receiver architecture that is reconfigurable ‘on-the-fly’. The project draws on RFEL’s techniques in signal processing on FPGAs and world class RF design expertise.

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the supplier of high performance FPGA-based design solutions, now has available a new datasheet on its ‘HyperSpeed’ range of high-performance FFT cores on its website www.rfel.com. The cores are factory scalable in terms of transform length and processing parallelism and can be built to optimally process complex data streams with very high sample rates from 400MS/s to several GS/s. The cores use a parallel p...

RF Engines Limited (RFEL), the supplier of high performance FPGA-based design solutions, reports that it is on a major growth phase for 2007. The company, based on the Isle of Wight, UK is looking to expand its technical team in the VHDL and system design areas, by around 25% during the current year.