Broadcasting Innovation

For the past 30 years, Australian company Innes Corporation (Innes Corp) has been at the forefront of the audio and broadcasting engineering industry. Their diverse range of products cover everything from AM/FM radio capture cards to audio watermarking software for film, television and radio, all of which have been recognised for their ingenuity and reliability.

When recently faced with the challenge of developing the world's first fully digital, 24-channel FM radio card on a standard PCI board, Innes Corp were required for the first time to incorporate FPGAs into their design. To quickly integrate this new technology into their development flow without having to interrupt or change their current work practises, Innes Corp upgraded to Altium Designer.

The ability to represent the top layers of the FPGA design as a schematic sheet while incorporating hand crafted VHDL as sub-sheets proved to benefit Innes Corp during the development process. The familiar schematic capture for FPGA design along with the tight integration between Altium Designer and vendor tools, made the transition into working with FPGAs seem like a natural progression.

“I was thrown in the deep end of the FPGA pool, with a tight deadline and a need to make the hardware work first go. With Altium Designer I could use the same familiar tools for the FPGA that I’d been using for the PCB, and everything just worked with a minimum of fuss. I’m smiling, management is impressed and our customers are happy.”

Jeff Pages
Senior Development Engineer
Innes Corporation