SUNDANCE - THE COMPANY |
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Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. was established in 1989. The Sundance
company strategy is to produce a comprehensive range of competitively priced
and well engineered products for the high-performance embedded processing
market.
Our first products were designed for the parallel processing market.
The product portfolio included PC add-in boards and modules. Sundance
rapidly developed and built a wide range of processor modules and boards.
The range included many special purpose modules and allowed Sundance to
act as a 'one-stop' shop for system designers and manufacturers.
Today, the Sundance product range includes modular systems based on
the Texas Instruments TMS320C4x ('C4x) and TMS320C6x ('C6x) range of processors. Many products are now in their second
or third generation, having been enhanced in response to customer demand.
Sundance products provide the core processing technology for DSP applications.
Sundance focuses on image processing and industrial control, with a special
concentration on machine vision and pattern recognition.
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SUNDANCE AND SIGNAL PROCESSING |
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High-performance computers and Digital Signal Processors (DSPs) are increasingly
being used to address a diverse range of automation tasks. Typically, the
applications which benefit include real-time control, robotics, image processing
and pattern recognition. Digital signal processing brings the benefits of
increased efficiency, higher quality and lower running costs to many manufacturing
and industrial organisations.
Sundance Multiprocessor Technology Ltd. has a leading role in the marketing
and development of sophisticated products which meet the myriad requirements
of system builders. The Sundance range of boards and modules offers a
fast turn-around and economical means of solving end-user requirements.
Sundance products are typically either board level, or conform to defined
module and carrier standards. In each case, they are designed to be used
either as stand-alone solutions, or in multi-processor systems. Benefits
to the user include:
- Ease of design - Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products remove the
expense and risk of in-house development
- Flexibility - A common format makes it simpler to tailor the system
configuration to application requirements
- Expandability - Systems can be easily expanded and functionality is
increased by the addition of more boards
- Cost - Boards can be re-used, and components of installed systems
can be upgraded and changed without the expense of replacing the entire
system.
Specifically, Sundance products conform to the TIM (Texas Instruments Module)
standard for the TMS320C4x ('C4x) and TMS320C6x ('C6x) DSPs. The company
also has a strategic focus on developing PCI, PMC and PC-Card based versions
of its products.
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CUSTOM DESIGNED SOLUTIONS |
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Many companies choose to focus on what they offer to the customer by way
of solutions and skills. System providers and niche market OEMs often sub-contract
their computer hardware design. If your application has unusual requirements,
Sundance has the skills and resources to specify, design, manufacture and
test a custom solution for you.
Once the basic engineering concept has been agreed, Sundance will rapidly
develop an 'optimised' system or board to meet your performance, size
or environmental constraints. Our design engineers will help you to develop
a specification that meets your requirements, whilst making every effort
to ensure that your product conforms to appropriate industry standards.
By doing so, your product will be re-useable in future system-building
applications. As a result, you will enjoy the benefits of both compatibility
and an optimised solution, along with a fast, cost-effective route to
market.
All designs are implemented using surface mount technology, resulting
in lower costs, compactness, increased reliability and lower power consumption.
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AREAS OF EXPERTISE |
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Sundance business strategy is based on its skills in the following five
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| Digital Signal Processing |
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The design and manufacture of efficient and reliable systems, using
leading-edge DSPs, is a complex and demanding task. The Sundance team
of engineers has many years' experience in designing a range of DSP
architectures. |
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| Digital Video Interfaces |
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Digital cameras offer significantly higher quality images than traditional
analogue cameras. This is especially advantageous when they are used
as inputs for DSPs. Sundance has developed a range of digital video
capture systems. |
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| PCI, CompactPCI & PMC |
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Sundance is developing a range of PCI, CompactPCI and PMC versions
of successful TIM products, offering OEMs powerful niche solutions
for embedding within PCI bus based systems. |
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| Re-configurable Computing Hardware |
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Sundance makes extensive use of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs),
as these products enable rapid prototyping and development. In addition,
they allow standard products to be tailored to meet specific customer
requirements. |
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| Multi-processing |
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In many applications, parallel architectures are the only method
of achieving a viable solution. Sundance has been designing both large
and small parallel systems since the company's formation.
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THE PRODUCTS |
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| Compute Processor Devices |
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Sundance offers a large range of DSP Module based on the Texas
Instruments Module (TIM) and covers all the DSPs in the TMS320C6x™ family.
The Modules are backwards software compatible and will provide a
effort-less upgrade path to newer DSPs. |
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| Graphics,Video and Frame Grabbing Systems |
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These Modules are focussed towards the 'High-end' of the Image Processing
market and uses either the 'C6416 DSP or the VideoDSP A436 |
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| Special Purpose and Input/Output Components |
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These covers a large range of ADC, DAC and other I/O Modules and also 'Special' solutions |
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| PMC |
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This is proving to be a useful module standard, giving high bandwidth
I/O access to co-processor and peripheral interfaces. Our SMT401 allows
the use of our current range of TIMs providing off-the-shelf functions
within the PMC environment. |
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