About Our Company
InoTek was formed in 2005 as a collaboration between
HW Communications Ltd and Lancaster University.
The primary focus in this formation is to realize the commercial potential from activity in 2 major R&D projects where HW Communications was originally funded by the European Commission's Framework 5 program (FP7) supplemented by internal investment, which produced 2 highly advanced FPGA based products.
InoTek has licensed this technology in order to produce a more user friendly and lower cost product which solves a major problem which was encountered during the original work - Training.
Digital Signal Processing for voice,audio, video and communications is highly complex with a difficult learning curve. InoFlex aims to speed up learning of these complex technologies and is aimed towards academia, industry and intuitive individuals.
Original EC FP5 R & D projects and resultant products:
CAST "Configurable Radio with Advanced Software Technologies"
Within this project HW Communications developed the 2.5Milllion gate HW2000 FPGA system which was used as the reconfigurable signal processing engine for a reconfigurable radio system (also commonly know as software defined radio (SDR)). The HW2000 was based upon Xilinx Virtex technology. CAST achieved demonstration of a reconfigurable radio cable of reconfiguring between GSM and 3G in 2002, long before the first deployments of 3G.
TWODOS "Two Dimensional Optical Storage"
HW Communications worked alongside Philips Research and Lancaster University to assist in the development of the 4th generation of optical disk.
With Blu-ray technology moving into commercialisation at this time, this project aimed to improve disk capacity over the Blu-ray disk's 25GB by using a two dimensional data storage method. This system required a significant increase in signal processing capability for which HW Communications was tasked to implement a capable receiver.
HW Communications therefore implemented a 32 Million gate FPGA system for this purpose.
This system was based on Xilinx Virtex II FPGA technology. The TWODOS project far exceeded the expected 2x gain (50GB) capacity over Blu-ray in 2004.
Systems developed during CAST and TWODOS are still available through InoTek as products InoConfigure Midi and InoConfigure Maxi respectively .
CAST "Configurable Radio with Advanced Software Technologies"
Within this project HW Communications developed the 2.5Milllion gate HW2000 FPGA system which was used as the reconfigurable signal processing engine for a reconfigurable radio system (also commonly know as software defined radio (SDR)). The HW2000 was based upon Xilinx Virtex technology. CAST achieved demonstration of a reconfigurable radio cable of reconfiguring between GSM and 3G in 2002, long before the first deployments of 3G.
TWODOS "Two Dimensional Optical Storage"
HW Communications worked alongside Philips Research and Lancaster University to assist in the development of the 4th generation of optical disk.
With Blu-ray technology moving into commercialisation at this time, this project aimed to improve disk capacity over the Blu-ray disk's 25GB by using a two dimensional data storage method. This system required a significant increase in signal processing capability for which HW Communications was tasked to implement a capable receiver.
HW Communications therefore implemented a 32 Million gate FPGA system for this purpose.
This system was based on Xilinx Virtex II FPGA technology. The TWODOS project far exceeded the expected 2x gain (50GB) capacity over Blu-ray in 2004.
Systems developed during CAST and TWODOS are still available through InoTek as products InoConfigure Midi and InoConfigure Maxi respectively .