The Pentek Onyx Virtex-7 FPGA PCIe Board is Aimed at Radar and Telemetry Applications
Eletter Product
- Supports Xilinx Virtex-7 VXT FPGAs
- GateXpress™ supports dynamic FPGA reconfiguration across PCIe
- Three 200 MHz 16-bit A/Ds
- One digital upconverter and two 800 MHz 16-bit D/As
- 4 GB of DDR3 SDRAM
- Sample clock synchronization to an external system reference
- LVPECL clock/sync bus for multiboard synchronization
- PCI Express (Gen. 1, 2 & 3) interface up to x8
- Pentek ReadyFlow board support and GateFlow FPGA design kit
- Ideal for communications, wideband radar, SIGINT, telecom, and SATCOM
The Model 78720 is a multichannel high-speed data converter PCIe board suitable
for connection to HF or IF ports of communications, radar, telemetry, and medical systems. This new board is a member of the Pentek Onyx™ family of products that employ the new Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGAs. The Virtex-7 family delivers the industry's most advanced FPGA technology.
The Pentek 78720 analog front end features three 200 MHz, 16-bit A/Ds delivering excellent dynamic range and 350 MHz input bandwidth, ideal for signal intelligence, radar, beamforming and undersampling applications. In addition, a dual channel 800 MHz 16-bit D/A provides two wideband analog outputs. Built-in interpolation filters and a digital upconverter translate real or complex baseband input signals to any IF center frequency up to 360 MHz.
The Virtex-7 FPGA can be selected from the VXT family to match the specific requirements of the processing task. Supported FPGAs include: VX330T, VX485T or VX690T. The VX690T features up to 3600 DSP48E1 slices and is ideal for tasks such as modulation/demodulation, encoding/decoding, encryption/decryption, or channelization of the signals between transmission and reception. For applications not requiring large DSP resources, one of the lower-cost VX330T or VX485T FPGAs can be installed.
The 78720 supports Gen 3.0 PCI Express as the primary control and data-streaming interface. With lane widths up to x8, data can be moved on and off the board at rates up to 8 GB/sec. Such rates are invaluable for moving the full-bandwidth, multichannel data required in many applications.
The Onyx architecture includes GateXpress, a sophisticated FPGA-PCIe configuration manager for loading and reloading the FPGA. At power-up, GateXpress immediately presents a PCIe target for the host computer to discover, effectively giving the FPGA time to load from FLASH. This is especially important for larger FPGAs where the loading times can exceed the PCIe discovery window, typically 100 msec on most PCs.
This product is also offered in other formats. For information on these click on the model number below:
Model 71720: XMC Model 72720: 6U cPCI Model 53720: OpenVPX
For the latest pricing and availability information, please contact Mario Schiavone
by phone at (201) 818-5900 ext. 229, or by email to sales@pentek.com.
