Date: 02/10/2009

High-resolution VME/VXS digitizer from Agilent for defense apps

Agilent has introduced the SVM4800, a high-resolution eight-channel 14-bit VME/VXS digitizer and more than 300 MHz input signal bandwidth, providing sampling of up to 125 MS/s. The suggested applications are radar, Electronic Warfare (EW) and Synthetic Instrumentation (SI).

The SVM4800 builds on the modular U1083A VME/VXS base card with an analog digitizer mezzanine that includes two DC-coupled 14-bit, 125 MS/s quad-ADCs. The mezzanine also includes a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA that provides data MUX function and static data gain and offset correction.

The base card provides high-performance, real-time data processing of two large Xilinx Virtex- 4 FPGAs, one SX55 and one FX100. The board supports eight 3.125 Gbps serial links on the VXS backplane and two optical links on the front panel supporting up to 3.125 Gbps, providing a data bandwidth of more than 3.5 GB/s and compliant VME64x interface supports the 2eSST protocol.

An optional firmware development kit (FDK) is available to application firmware implementation on the SX55 and FX100 FPGAs. The FDK includes a set of cores to easy interface to the underlying hardware, a base design for each family member to provide simple, ready-to-use designs, and a test-bench environment for design and simulation.

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