Applications
Hevday Logic Modules are designed for any application that requires rapid digital circuit development and debug, and that can trade off development savings against the slightly higher cost of using assembled modules.
If you need one, ten or 100 systems, then Hevday Logic Modules should be most economic for you.
Within the bounds described above, Hevday Logic Modules can be used for all kinds of applications such as -
- Digital circuits to handle fast and/or parallel operations possibly combined with a microprocessor to handle procedural requirements
- Application specific controllers or testers for mechanical or electronic devices
- Application specific coprocessors for fast special purpose processing
- Systems using Image Processing techniques
- Systems using Digital Signal Processing techniques
- PC USB based systems talking to the user circuit via custom C code in the user microprocessor
- PC USB based systems talking to the user circuit via custom code on the PC and using Hevdays's programmer's API to access the monitor microprocessor
- Reconfigurable digital instrumentation, or suites of instruments
- Experimental systems including numerical control and automation systems
- Digital communications systems
- Special motor or process controllers
- Quickly implemented special purpose systems for the lab
- Fast pattern and function generation
- Hardware Test-benches for IC or system testing
Thought of another way, Hevday Logic Modules possess all the logic capability and operational user-friendliness of a PLC, but are one hundred times faster, and can be customized by adding special functions as custom sub-systems. Viewed like that, they are a natural fit for many embedded applications.
With a Hevday Logic Module you can easily -
- Add a high-speed ADC or DAC with a parallel interface and have the user circuit process the data
- Use fast handshake transfers for I/O access to data in asynchronous clock domains, even when monitoring an operational User Circuit
- Implement special pupose interfaces to complex equipment such as a completely configurable PWM interface, or a machine tool drive.
- Expand the facilities available to the User Microprocessor by using the User Circuit to expand the I/O count and add freely configurable micrprocessor peripherals.
As a final suggestion, perhaps you should consider interactive circuit development using a Hevday Logic Module, rather than using simulation. After all, they are an excellent lightning-fast substitute for behavioural simulation, and if you stick to the rules they eliminate glitches and the need for timing simulation completely. You won't have to fight simulator bugs, ambiguities and peculiarities. Modules contain a real circuit and the software displays what that real circuit is doing. Not only that, but you can produce real signals.
Perhaps you should consider Logic Modules as a tool in any project requiring digital support?
