Increasing System Efficiency and Performance in Factory Automation: How All Programmable Technology is Displacing Traditional MCU Approaches
Bringing industrial automation systems to market is no easy task. Increasing pressure from both technical and business requirements are driving the need for more streamlined, cost-effective systems that deliver double the performance of previous generations. How can designers increase processing speed, network bandwidth and system efficiency while increasing productivity, reducing cost and maintaining quality? Traditional MCU approaches are no longer a viable or ideal solution to address these types of challenges. This webcast takes a look at how to address these difficult technical and business challenges through innovative All Programmable development platforms from Xilinx that introduce breakthrough SoC-level integration and performance-per-watt optimization in systems across the factory floor—Motor Control, Industrial Networking and Machine Vision.
- How to increase overall efficiency, reduce BOM cost and maximize performance in Factory Automation systems for Motor Control, Industrial Networking and Machine Vision through innovative technology such as the Zynq™-7000 All Programmable SoC family and 7 series Analog Mixed Signal customizable analog interface.
- Alternative approaches to addressing design challenges presented by the evolution of Factory Automation are driving the need for higher-performance, efficient systems beyond traditional MCU capability.
Dr. Giulio Corradi, Senior System Architect, Xilinx
Dr. Giulio Corradi is a Senior System Architect at Xilinx, responsible for Industrial Networking, Motor Control and Functional Safety applications. He brings 25 year of experience of management, software engineering and development of ASICs and FPGA in industrial, automation and medical systems specifically in the field of control and communication. Dr. Corradi holds a Doctorate degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padua (Italy) he also has a long standing collaboration as co-advisor, on DSP, control systems and microelectronic systems. He is active with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany) for safety systems, University of Cergy-Pointoise (France) and University of Maribor (Slovenia) for power systems.
Mark Timmons, System Architect, Xilinx
Mark Timmons is a System Architect at Xilinx responsible for Industrial applications with a focus on industrial video applications and solutions. Mark has over 15 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, starting off as an applications engineer, and has gained broad knowledge of SoCs, ASSPs and FPGAs through past roles at Infineon and Xilinx.
Yvonne Lin, Industrial Marketing Manager, Xilinx
Yvonne Lin is the Industrial Marketing Manager at Xilinx, responsible for product rollout and marketing for Surveillance and Factory automation applications. Yvonne has over a decade of experience in the FPGA and semiconductor industry, previously working in the system-on-chip products group at Actel/Microsemi and in the applications group at Altera. Yvonne holds a BS in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto.