Nine Ways
Overview
Nine Ways Research & Development Ltd was established in October 2012 in Derby, UK by three digital design engineers. It constitutes several primary elements all aimed at high-end digital design within the high-speed communications industry.
Nine Ways is UK operation of their senior partner in Germany – MorethanIP GmbH and provide all of their software device-driver design and support along with IP core hardware design using HDL commonly Verilog/VHDL. Nine Ways offers full design services covering hardware PCB design, software device drivers, PIC micro-code firmware, HDL IP core, and embedded support.
Products and Services
NetFusion:
NetFusion is an industrially deployed, all-in-one development product that is 1G Ethernet based, using Microsemi’s new FPGA to create designs to allow a wealth of legacy comms and infrastructure to connect with high-speed Ethernet and USB. With an ARM-Cortex CPU, 166MHz and 64Mb RAM, it forms an extremely cost effective embedded system that integrates IP cores, Linux application software and a hardened environmentally approved design that can assist with R&D, then deploy to your customer base.
The baseboard forms several different product usages. Simplistically, it is an interface product for Emcraft’s M2S050-SOM-F484 series SmartFusion 2 FPGA sub-system to allow real-world connectivity in a deployed light/heavy industrial environment. It incorporates not only many different legacy connectors and interfaces but also compact high speed connectivity such as 10/100/1000 Ethernet, Fiber transceivers, USB and GPIO. Its versatility enables it to be an ideal platform as a conduit for the highly reputable and endurable M2S-SOM-484 family of SmartFusion2 FPGA system-on-module to interact in many given environments and deployable scenarios.
The product can be used either in the format of an IP core Ethernet SWITCH development kit (as most of the hardware orientates network communications – hence the name NetFusion), or as an M2S-SOM SmartFusion2 trial and evaluation baseboard (more extensive interfaces than the more basic competitors), or finally as a fully ready-to-deploy industrial product solution to a user’s needs having developed customized software and IP core designs to tailor to intended product functionality.
More information on NetFusion can be found on : http://nineways.co.uk/product_item/netfusion/.
Key Features:
- Little or no hardware development, Dev-kit is the deployed product so time-to-market tiny in comparison to other development kits
- A baseboard full of modern and legacy industrial interfaces for FPGA integration – ideal for your deployment environment
- Smartfusion2 SOM capable of uCLinux, free Libero IDE and build tools
- Lifetime support for uCLinux, application development, hardware usage and the Libero IDE design support package. We are with you all the way!
Applications:
- 1G Industrial Enterprise Ethernet SWITCH hosting
- Site perimeter telemetry and telematics
- Industrial motor control
- FPGA IP core development and evaluation platform
Contact Information
Nine Ways Research & Development Ltd Head Office:
iD Centre, Lathkill House,rtc Business Park,
London Road, Derby, United Kingdom.
DE24 8UP
Email: info@nineways.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0)1332 258847
Fax: +44 (0)1332 258823
Mobile: +44 (0)7960 876053