Multiband Receivers offered in 3U and 6U form factors.
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Equipped with synchronization system that supports up to 1280 channels, multiband-receiver boards are offered in 3U, 16-channel and 6U, 32-channel models. Both feature four 14-bit A/D converters and two 3-million gate Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs for signal processing. Boards consist of one or two Model 7131 digital receiver PMC modules and PMC-to-cPCI adapter assembled as one cPCI board. Features include front-panel LVDS Clock/Sync bus and cPCI interface.
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Pentek's First Entry Into The cPCI Market Features COTS 3U and 6U Multiband Receivers
· High-Density Solution Delivers Four A/D Converters, 32 Digital Receivers and Two 3-Million Gate Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs in a Single cPCI 6U Slot
· Industry-Leading Synchronization System Supports Up to 1280 Channels
· GateFlow FPGA Design Kit Supports On-Board User-Configurable FPGAs
UPPER SADDLE RIVER, NJ-May 24, 2004-Pentek, Inc., the industry pioneer of VME board-level technology, announced today it's first entry into the cPCI market with a 3U 16-channel multiband-receiver board and a 6U 32-channel multiband-receiver board featuring 14-bit A/D converters and Virtex-II FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays) for signal processing. Both boards consist of one or two Model 7131 digital receiver PMC modules and a PMC-to-cPCI adapter assembled and tested as a single cPCI board.
Both COTS (commercial-off-the-shelf) cPCI boards were designed to maximize configuration flexibility, switching and optimized synchronization for software radio applications such as synchronous data communications, wireless basestations, direction finding, satellite communications, wireless LAN, high-frequency sonar and telecommunications.
Rodger Hosking, vice president of Pentek, Inc. commented, "Drawing on nearly twelve years of expertise and success with software radio technology, these multiband receivers represent Pentek's first offerings for CompactPCI systems. For years, system designers have used our leading technology solutions to meet demanding application requirements in software radio, signal processing and data acquisition. Our proven track record in handling multi-channel synchronization, flexible FPGA design strategies and a system-level approach to challenging applications, now delivers a valuable new resource to CompactPCI system engineers."
Flexible Configuration, Switching and Synchronization
The Model 7231 accepts four analog RF inputs at +4 dBm full scale into 50 ohms on front-panel SMA connectors, while the Model 7331 offers two analog inputs. Each input is transformer coupled and digitized by an AD6645 14-bit A/D converter with options for maximum sampling rates of either 80 MHz or 105 MHz. The sampling clock can be driven from an internal 80 MHz or 100 MHz crystal oscillator, from an external 50 ohm clock source supplied to a front-panel SMA connector or from the front panel LVDS Clock/Sync bus.
A/D converter data is delivered to eight Graychip GC4016 quad multiband digital-receiver chips on the Model 7231 or four quad receiver chips on the 7331. The maximum input sampling rate for the GC4016 is 100 MHz. Each GC4016 includes four receiver channels capable of independent center frequency tuning from DC to fS/2, where fS is the sample clock frequency. Additionally, A/D data can be delivered directly to the FPGAs, bypassing the digital receivers for wideband applications.
The front-panel LVDS Clock/Sync bus allows one board to act as a master, driving the sample clock, sync, gating and trigger signals through the LVDS Clock/Sync bus. This supports synchronization of local oscillator phase, frequency switching, decimating filter phase and data collection across multiple boards.
When used with Pentek's Model 9190 clock and sync generator, the boards can support up to 1280 channels, each sharing a common clock and synchronization signals, for very large multi-channel systems including beamforming applications.
Configurable FPGAs
The 7231 and 7331 are both equipped with Xilinx Virtex-II FPGAs. Data from the A/D converters and from the GC4016 digital receivers is delivered into the FPGAs, which perform a wide range of user-selectable data packing and formatting functions. Dual port memories inside the FPGAs provide efficient PCI bus transfers by buffering receiver and A/D data.
In addition to these standard, factory-defined functions, Pentek makes the wealth of unused resources in these FPGAs easily available to users to add their own custom signal-processing functions. By choosing either the Xilinx Virtex-II XC2V1000 (standard) or optional XC2V3000 FPGAs, users can implement extremely complex DSP algorithms and take advantage of flexible custom I/O through the cPCI P3 and P5 connectors.
cPCI Interface
Industry standard 64-bit 66 MHz PLX9656 PCI interface chips ensure full conformance to all PCI bus timing specifications. A PCI bridge connects the two PCI interfaces to the cPCI backplane.
Development Tools for a Variety of Platforms
Pentek's three-fold GateFlow FPGA Resources include the GateFlow FPGA Design Kit supporting user-developed FPGA code, GateFlow IP Core Libraries for high-performance FFTs (Fast Fourier Transforms), digital receivers and radar pulse compression algorithms and the GateFlow Factory Installed IP Cores that allow customers to take immediate advantage of FPGA technology with zero FPGA development effort.
Third-party and Pentek software development tools are available Windows and Linux platforms.
Pricing and Availability
Both the Model 7231 and 7331 Multiband Receivers are immediately available at 8-10 weeks ARO. The Model 723116-channel multiband receiver starts at $6,795, and the 32-channel version starts at $12,795. The Model 733116-channel multiband receiver starts at $6,695 USD.
About Pentek
Pentek develops, manufactures and markets innovative DSP systems to original equipment manufacturers, distributors and value-added resellers. Pentek offers powerful VME, PMC, VIM and PCI boards for data acquisition, software radio and digital signal processing featuring Texas Instrument's C6000 DSPs, Motorola's G4 PowerPC and Xilinx FPGAs. Pentek's I/O includes A/Ds, D/As, digital receivers and upconverters and more. Pentek equips products with interfaces like RACE++ and FPDP-II and offers strong DSP software support.
Pentek and GateFlow are registered trademarks of Pentek, Inc. Brand or product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
North American Sales Contact: Mario Schiavone, Pentek, Inc., One Park Way, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458-2311; telephone 201-818-5900, ext. 761; fax 201-818-5904; email news@pentek.com, website pentek.com.International Sales Contacts: VSystems SA in France at 130070060, VSystems Electronic GmbH in Germany at 892737630, VSystems s.r.l. in Italy at 11.966 1319, VSystems AB in Sweden at 84441550, VSystems UK at 1142813123, WTI in Israel at 99-563163 and MISH International in Japan at 42-538-7650.
