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News
Date Event
7/22/2018 "Distributed-Memory-Based FFT Architecture and FPGA Implementations" published in Electronics (see Quick Links at home page).
1/15/17 New IEEE 754 designs on Intel Arria 10 FPGAs with embedded support for floating-point operations show drastic reductions in LUTs and registers.
8/25/2016 "LTE Single Carrier DFT: Faster Circuits with Reduced FPGA LUT/Register Usage" published (see "Quick Links" at home page) comparing Xilinx and Altera equivalent designs.
6/1/2016 Paper accepted for presentation at 2016 IEEE Int. System-on-Chip Conf., Seattle, WA: “Efficient Circuit Architecture and FPGA Implementation for LTE Single Carrier FDMA DFT”.
3/1/2016 Migrated LTE SC-FDMA design to Xilinx FPGA platform
12/2015 Sucessfully delivered non-power-of-two design to customer
5/15/2015 New (IEEE754) floating point 256/1024-point designs completed, including simulation verification (SQNR approximately 149/151db).
12/1/2015 "Non-Power-of-Two-Designs Do Not Have to be Difficult" published (see "Quick Links" at home page) summarizing how Centar's architecture makes this possible.
8/15/2014 "Rethinking the FFT" published (see "Quick Links" at home page) explaining why Centar's unique and novel FFT features make it a better choice for most high performance applications.
2/3/2014 Paper presented at 2014 Computer Networking and Communication Conference, February 2014: “High Throughput Programmable Systolic Array FFT Architecture and FPGA Implementatons”.
11/1/2013 New LTE variable FFT design with 128/256/512/1024/2048 points completed, supporting both short and long cyclic prefixes (see new datasheet).  Fmax at 501 MHz demonstrated based on Quartus Timequest timing analysis.
8/1/2013 Cyclic prefix option added to all FFT circuits.  Any prefix value up to the transform size N can be programmed.
3/1/2013 Successful demonstration of LTE SC-FDMA circuit (35 DFT sizes) running at 450MHz sample rate on Altera® Stratix® III Development Kit board with Stratix III EP3SE50F484C2 FPGA, >100% faster than equivalent Xilinx and Altera IP
2/1/2012 Successful demonstration of variable FFT (128/256/512/1024/2048 points) running at record 500MHz sample rate on Altera® Stratix® III Development Kit board with Stratix III EP3SE50F484C2 FPGA
1/31/2011 Centar wins Technology Enhancement for Commercial Partnerships contract from the National Science Foundation
10/1/2011 Demonstration of translation program to automatically produce Verilog code for circuits of arbitrary fixed-point word length
5/1/2010 Invited talk on FFT technology at National Science Foundation Technology exchange program, Baltimore, MD.
2/1/2009 Centar wins Phase II National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research contract.
3/11/2007  ” A High Performance Scalable FFT”, presented at IEEE Int. Conf. Wireless Communications & Networking Conference, Hong Kong.
4/15/2007  ”A New Class of High Performance FFTs,” presented at IEEE Int. Conf. Accoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Honolulu, HI.
5/1/2007 Centar wins Phase I National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research contract.
10/1/2006  ” A High Performance Block Floating Point Systolic FFT Not Limited to Powers of Two,” presented at GSPx, Santa Clara, CA.
12/1/2005  ”Computationally Efficient Systolic Array for Computing the Discreet Fourier Transform” accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. Signal Processing.