The Atific Helicopter is billed as the industry's first FPGA-based multiradio wireless sensor network (WSN) platform.

The Atific Helicopter is billed as the industry's first FPGA-based multiradio wireless sensor network (WSN) platform. A complete development kit is immediately available for rapid technology adoption. The new platform opens a new era for WSN applications with greatly improved robustness, performance and flexibility compared with other WSN platforms.

Atific Helicopter has up to four Nordic Semiconductor nRF2401A 2.4GHz radio transceivers on a single WSN node.

Each radio can be independently configured to transmit or receive data from other WSN nodes purely simultaneously.

Radio transceivers are connected to Altera Cyclone EP1C20 FPGA that occupies a highly flexible multiprocessor system-on-chip platform including soft-core processors, logic for radio transceivers and space for application specific custom logic.

Atific Helicopter enables new exiting WSN applications that have not even been realisable in the past.

The platform is ideal for developing and implementing demanding WSN protocols, algorithms and computing architectures.

The outstanding performance allows even multihop video and audio streaming with the 3Mbit/s throughput when all the transceivers are cascaded.

The first multiradio WSN platform product, Atific Helicopter, is available as a development kit for a jump start for companies, research laboratories and universities.

The kit comes with a pre-installed reference design including source codes as well as PC terminal software.