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Model 7156 Dual 400 MHz A/Ds, 800 MHz D/As with Virtex-5 FPGAs - PMC/XMC

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Model 7156 TechCast presentation Complete software radio interface solution Two 400 MHz, 14-bit A/Ds One digital upconverter Two 800 MHz, 16-bit D/As Up to 1 GB of DDR2 SDRAM Two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs Sample clock synchronization to an external system reference LVPECL clock/sync bus for multimodule synchronization VITA 42.0 XMC compatible with switched fabric interfaces 32 pairs of LVDS connections to the Virtex-5 FPGAs for custom I/O on P14 Available in the following form factors: Model 5356 - VPX 3U Model 7256 - cPCI 6U Model 7356 - cPCI 3U Model 7656 - PCI Model 7756 - PCIe Model 7856 - PCIe

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• Brochure
• Model 4207 MPC8641D PowerPC & FPGA I/O Processor VME/VXS Board
• Catalog
• Analog and Digital I/O Product Segment Catalog
• Pentek 2012 Product Catalog
• Radar and SDR I/O Product Segment Catalog
• Handbook
• Critical Techniques for High-Speed A/Ds In Real-Time Systems, Sixth Ed.
• High-Speed Switched Serial Fabrics Improve System Design, Fourth Edition
• Putting FPGAs to Work for Software Radio Handbook, Sixth Edition
• Software Radio Handbook, Ninth Edition
• Tutorial
• Features and Benefits of FPGA-Based DDCs

Industry Articles - ( top )

• Harnessing FPGAs for beamforming software radio systems (EE Publishers)
• 10 GbE Digital Recording Feeds Demands from Wideband Sensors (COTS Journal)
• FPGAs Pave New Processing Paths for VPX and VME Systems (COTS Journal)
• Unmanned vehicles push wireless, but lack in multicore (EET)
• Time carefully the adoption of your next-generation processor (EDN)
• New Virtex-7 FPGAs boost software radio performance (VME & Critical Systems)
  • Software-Defined Radio system performance looks to improve, thanks to the advanced power reduction, increased DSP engines, improved buffering, and faster interfaces of Xilinx's Virtex-7.
• Harnessing FPGAs for Beamforming Software Radio Systems (Embedded Technology)
  • Over the past 20 years, software defined radio techniques have not only revolutionized radar and communications systems, but they have also boosted system performance levels. One of the most widely-deployed and technically challenging operations in these systems is beamforming.
• Understanding Virtex FPGAs (Embedded Technology Magazine)
• VPX and VXS System-Level Switched Fabric Strategies (COTS Journal)
• FPGAs vs. ASICs/ASSPs in the digital down-converter (FPGA Central)
• New FPGAs Transform Real-Time Systems Architectures (RTC Magazine)
• PRODUCT HOW-TO: Building an FPGA-based Digital Down (Programmable Logic DesignLine)
• Features and Benefits of FPGA-based DDCs (Electronic Engineering Times Asia)
• Putting FPGAs to Work in Software Radio Systems (VME and Critical Systems Magazine)

Related Products - ( top )

• Data Acquisition and I/O > A/D and D/A
• Form Factor > PMC+XMC
• FPGA > Xilinx Virtex-5
• Protocol > PCI-X
• Ruggedization > L0
• Ruggedization > L1
• Ruggedization > L2