Date: 26/08/2009

Agilent's new VME/VXS analog digitizer targeted for military applications

Agilent has introduced a SVM3500 based on the modular U1083A VME/VXS base card with an analog digitizer features a quad-channel 12-bit digitizer allowing channel interleaving to provide sampling up to 2 GS/s with more than 2 GHz analog bandwidth. The SVM3500 is ideal for radar, Electronic Warfare (EW) and Synthetic Instrumentation (SI) applications.

Key features and specifications of this system are,

6U single slot VME/VXS (VITA 41) module
Quad-channel 12-bit 500 MS/s ADC
Dual 12-bit 1GS/s and single 12-bit 2GS/s configuration possibilities
External clock distributed by an in-house developed low jitter chipset
One Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA providing on board FIR for interleaving mismatch
correction
Lookup table providing data correction
Two Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs for real-time signal processing and data flow control
Two on-board DDR2 SDRAM banks, 32 Mwords, each 64-bit wide, for a total of 512
MB processing memory
Tundra TSI148 VME bus interface, VME64x and 2eSST compliant
VXS VITA 41.0 compliant, 8x 3.125 Gbps serial I/O links on P0 connector
Two front panel SFP slots for up to 3.125 Gbps fiber or copper transceivers
Auxiliary I/O mezzanine with multipurpose 12-bit 65 MS/s ADC, 12-bit 130 MS/s
DAC, and 14 digital front-panel I/O ports
External trigger input
High-speed digital I/O on P0 and P2 user-defined I/O
Firmware Development Kit containing FPGA interface cores, software, and reference
design
FPGA-based VXS and optical data link interfaces for easier adaptation to different
protocols
Local FLASH memory to store multiple FPGA bitstreams for complex, multimode
applications
Device drivers for Windows, VxWorks, and Linux

The U1083A board family features two Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs, one SX55 targeted at digital signal processing, and one FX100 for data flow control. The embedded 128 MB FLASH memory allows the platform to be easily reconfigured to perform user-defined applications.

Availability: Now
For more details visit www.agilent.com