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Beamforming is a signal processing technique that utilizes an array of sensors to achieve directionality, increase the strength of transmitted signals and improve the quality of received signals.

Typical Cell Phone Beamforming System

“The Pentek Model 53661 Software Radio Board is a 3U OpenVPX Cobalt board ideally suited to beamforming applications. It’s available in commercial and rugged versions up to and including conduction-cooled.”

Cobalt Bundle Includes:

• Cobalt Virtex-6 board available in XMC, PCI Express or OpenVPX formats
• ReadyFlow® board support libraries for Windows, Linux or VxWorks
• Time and frequency domain signal analyzer utility
• Command-line interface
• Operating manuals and documentation
• Complete cable kit
• Lifetime product support
• Online technical resources with automatic alerts for updates and new releases

It’s Up to You! Simply Choose:

• Any Cobalt Virtex-6 product
• Form factor: XMC, or PCIe, or OpenVPX
• Board support package OS: Windows, Linux, or VxWorks

Cobalt Product Features:

• A/D and D/A sampling rates from 10 MHz to 1 GHz
• Dedicated DMA channels and memory buffers for each I/O stream
• Multiboard synchronization
• ReadyFlow board support libraries
• GateFlow® FPGA Design Kit and installed IP cores
• Complete solutions for wireless communications, radar, SIGINT, and beamforming

Cobalt Virtex-6 FPGA Boards:

• Model 71630 - XMC 1 GHz A/D and 1 GHz D/A
• Model 53650 - VPX 2-Channel 500 MHz A/D, DUC, and 2-Channel 800 MHz D/A
• Model 78620 - PCIe 3-Channel 200 MHz A/D, DUC, and 2-Channel 800 MHz D/A
• Model 71621 - XMC 3-Channel 200 MHz A/D, DDC, DUC, and 2-Channel 800 MHz D/A
• Model 78660 - PCIe 4-Channel 200 MHz 16-bit A/D
• Model 53661 - VPX 4-Channel 200 MHz 16-bit A/D and four DDCs with beamforming IP
• Model 71690 - XMC L-Band (925–2175 MHz) Tuner with 2-Channel 200 MHz A/D

• Complete multiband recording and playback system
• 4U 19 inch industrial rack-mount PC server chassis
• Windows® 7 Professional workstation with high-performance Intel® CoreTM i7 processor
• 16-bit 200 MHz A/Ds
• 16-bit 800 MHz D/As
• Real-time sustained recording rates of up to 1600 MB/sec
• Configurations from one to eight channels of recording and playback
• From 2 to 20 terabytes storage to NTFS RAID disk array
• RAID levels of 0, 1, 5 , 6, 10 and 50
• SystemFlow® GUI (graphical user interface) with Signal Viewer analysis tool
• File headers include time stamping and recording parameters
• Optional DDC decimation and DUC interpolation range from 2 to 65,536
• Up to 80 MHz record and playback signal bandwidths
• IF frequencies to 700 MHz
• Optional GPS time and position stamping

Shows & Seminars

May 24, 2011
Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference
Sheraton Framingham Hotel
1657 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA

May 19, 2011
Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference
Hilton Long Island / Huntington
598 Broad Hollow Road, Melville, NY

May 17, 2011
Real-Time & Embedded Computing Conference
Sheraton Reston Hotel
11810 Sunrise Valley Drive , Reston , VA

May 11, 2011 - May 13, 2011
Embedded Systems Expo
Tokyo Big Sight
3-21-1 Ariake Koto , Tokyo , Japan

Mar 1, 2011
Pentek Enhances ReadyFlow Board Support Package to Speed Embedded System Development

• C-callable functions provide complete control of board resources
• Command Line Interface simplifies board configuration with pre-compiled executable code
• User-friendly Signal Analyzer displays live signals in time and frequency domains