Audio Testing…With a Pressure Cooker?

By Trevor Smouter | Apr 11, 2014

Nuvation Engineering recently developed a product for a client that was a high-quality audio recording device with an integrated microphone. Our client needed their device to have a high dynamic range...

4K Video Design Challenges and Solutions

By Mark Bingeman | Mar 13, 2014

Nuvation Engineering has completed a number of 4K video design projects for industries ranging from consumer electronics to defense and aerospace. Although the design requirements vary greatly, an FPG...

H.265 Video Codec: What It Means for FPGA Designs

By Jong Kim | Mar 7, 2014

In early 2013 the next generation video codec standard was approved by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC). The standard is called High Efficiency Video Codec (HEVC), more commonly r...

Will You Catch the IoT Product Development Wave?

By Trevor Smouter | Feb 25, 2014

The air is absolutely still in the frigid early morning and across the neighborhood lazy clouds of white vapor drift slowly up from the heated homes. On the nightstand, your phone’s dimmed screen su...

5 Ways to Slash the Cost of Your IoT Device

By Nuvation | Feb 21, 2014

With the booming demand for IoT devices, everyone is getting connected. Our clients want to make new and innovative products that are connected to the internet, but they’re not willing to sacrifice ...

Low-Power Design Strategies for Connected Devices

By Craig MacKenzie | Feb 3, 2014

With the rapid growth of mobile technology and battery-powered devices, power consumption has become an increasingly important metric for electronic products. Designing low-power systems and devices i...

Low-Latency Video Design With the H.264 Codec

By Paul Trautrim | Jan 16, 2014

Low latency is often a key requirement for high-performance video designs. Nuvation’s engineering team recently completed a low-latency video streaming design that handles HD video from capture to d...

Electronic Designs for Space: The Space Environment

By Edward Ayrapetian | Jan 14, 2014

In this ongoing series we’ll cover some considerations for engineers when creating designs for space applications. Read up on the types of radiation we posted about last week if you missed it! Th...

Electronic Designs for Space: Radiation

By Edward Ayrapetian | Jan 9, 2014

Nuvation Engineering recently completed a complex data acquisition design for a space application. The project consisted of an FPGA design with a soft-core ARM processor, and large banks of non-volati...

4 Reasons You Should Be Using VMs for FPGA and Software Development

By Gwyneth Saldanha | Jan 7, 2014

Back in the day, FPGA and software developers only had access to a single workstation for developing, simulating production on n-tier systems, and running tests for all their projects. Virtual machine...