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About Pentek, Inc.
Pentek Company Profile
Pentek was founded in 1986 and is now the premier source for digital signal processing, data acquisition and software radio products. Our customers enjoy the performance and flexibility afforded by our board and system-level product lines and our world-class applications support.
 Pentek's 88,000 sq. ft. facility in Upper Saddle River, NJ | |
"Pentek takes pride in listening to its customers and creating new products to meet their needs. We promise an atmosphere of freedom and creativity among our engineers, so they can design industry-leading products to satisfy the most demanding applications. This has been the key to our success through the years." -- Rodger Hosking, Vice President
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Pentek offers powerful VME, PMC, PCI and cPCI commercial and rugged board and system solutions. Pentek's data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing products utilize Texas Instrument's C6000 DSPs, Motorola's G4 PowerPC and Xilinx FPGAs. Pentek's I/O includes A/D's, D/A's, Digital Receivers and more. Pentek equips products with high-speed connections including VXS, FPDP and Fibre Channel and offers strong FPGA, I/O and DSP software support.
No other DSP vendor can provide such seasoned, in-depth technical expertise in data acquisition, digital signal processing and software radio.
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Pentek Mission Statement
Pentek's mission is to provide the embedded community with leading edge board- and system-level solutions for the most demanding requirements in data acquisition, digital signal processing and software radio applications through excellence and innovation.
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Pentek Strategies
- We support an aggressive new product development cycle to meet market demands as we design the next generation of embedded DSP products.
- We consistently invest more than 15% of revenues in product development, engineering and applications support.
- We will help you solve the most challenging DSP problems through our dedicated staff of systems engineers who are trained to provide the answers to your hardware, software or applications questions.
- We recognize today's time-to-market pressures and budget constraints on development resources and we offer low-risk, easy-to-use embedded solutions.
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Pentek Product Overview
Founded in 1986, Pentek has become the premier source for digital signal processing, data acquisition and software defined radio products.
You can select from a variety of processor boards and the industry's most extensive line of advanced analog and digital I/O products, along with exclusive development tools that help you create a custom system. Many of these products include FPGAs for customized signal processing.
Pentek offers more than sixty I/O products with mezzanine interfaces such as PMC, XMC, PCI and cPCI. We also offer complete real-time recording systems and software.
Processor Engines
- Single and multiprocessor boards with Freescale PowerPC chips and Texas Instruments C6000 DSPs
- Xilinx FPGAs
Data Acquisition
- Single or multichannel A/Ds and D/As
- Sampling rates to 2 GHz
- Resolution to 24 bits
Software Radio
- Up to 32 channels per slot
- Narrow-, wide- and multi-band versions
- Downconverters and upconverters
Real-Time Recording Systems
- Economical alternatives to in-house development
- Fully tested and ready to run right out-of-the-box
- Full-featured software included
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Associations
Pentek is an active member in many industry associations that drive new technologies including VITA, PICMG and Software Defined Radio Forum.
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Pentek Company History
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1986-1994:
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A group of five engineers form a company, which they appropriately name Pentek. The company engages in developing and marketing off-the-shelf DSP and data acquisition products such as C30 and C40 DSP processor VME boards and a slew of analog and digital I/O peripherals including the first digital receiver product.
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1995:
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Pentek introduces their powerful octal C40 VME board. More digital receivers and A/D boards, along with new software, are also introduced.
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1996:
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Pentek introduces a line of C-size VXI products. PMC modules and more digital receivers are announced.
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1997:
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Pentek announces its new quad board based on the TI fixed-point DSP processor the TMS320C6201.
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1998:
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Pentek announces its new quad board based on the TI floating-point DSP processor the TMS320C6701. The VIM® Series of mezzanine I/O is also introduced.
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1999:
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The company expands its line of high-performance VIM I/O to more than ten models, and introduces its first RACEway® digital receiver VME board.
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2000:
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Pentek announces its new quad board based on the TI fixed-point DSP processor the TMS320C6203. The ReadyFlow® Board Support Libraries are introduced.
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2001:
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The company announces its new quad Motorola AltiVec G4 PowerPC processor and new FPGA software radio VIM modules.
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2002:
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Pentek introduces an Octal C6203 processor and more FPGA software radio VIM and PMC modules with GateFlow® FPGA Design Kit and GateFlow installed cores.
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2003:
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Pentek introduces its Model 4205 I/O processor PowerPC board and expands its GateFlow FPGA line with the introduction of IP Core Libraries. It also introduces its first PCI product, Model 7631 receiver.
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2004:
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Pentek announces the first switch-less VXS system along with powerful I/O products that combine the VXS connectivity with powerful FPGA resources and IP offerings. Pentek also expands its software radio product line with a new PCI card powerful enough to stand on its own. New 3U and 6U cPCI board offerings were also introduced.
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2005:
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Rugged versions of new software radio modules were announced. A new comprehensive software radio transceiver packs FPGA processing power with XMC switched fabric IO. SystemFlow® API and libraries was added to support Pentek's RTS® system line. Pentek introduces the Model 6826 2 GHz VXS A/D converter board.
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2006:
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Pentek announces a new family of software radio transceiver modules that boost FPGA, memory and A/D Resources for complex wideband multi-channel systems. This new line expands to PMC/XMC, 3U/6U cPCI and PCI form factors and is also available in rugged versions. New software radio module FPGA pre-installed cores were added including a 256-channel DDC core that increases channel density by an order of magnitude. Additionally, new real-time RTS Recording Systems were added with wider signal bandwidths and record/playback capabilities.
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2007:
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Pentek introduces the Model 7141 PMC/XMC Transceiver for superior signal quality software radio applications. New factory-installed GateFlow® IP cores include multi-band DDCs covering four orders of magnitude of signal bandwidth and interpolation filters that extend the bandwidth range of ASIC interpolators by three orders of magnitude.
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2008:
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Pentek announces the Model 4207 VME/VXS I/O Processor board featuring a dual core Freescale MPC8641D AltiVec PowerPC, dual PMC/XMC sites, a Virtex-4 FPGA, a Fibre Channel controller, dual gigabit Ethernet ports, dual optical gigabit serial ports, and a processor-controlled fabric transparent gigabit serial crossbar switch that joins these resources according to the needs of the application.
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