XMC-2131
Dual 14-bit High-Speed Digital-to-Analog Converter and Xilinx Virtex-5 Processing Engine
Overview
Overview
The XMC-2131 has dual output 14-bit D/A converters, each running at up to 300 MSPS in a single-width VITA 42.0 XMC form factor. The DACs are integrated with a single user programmable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA device for wide bandwidth signal processing and filtering in the digital domain. The module can also be used as an Enhanced PMC (ePMC) module. The ePMC standard is fully compatible with IEEE P1386.1 PMC standard but offers the additional benefit of dedicated rapid Solano~links between ePMC compliant carrier and mezzanine modules. Data can also be transferred over PCI, which provides the control path.
Features and Benefits
Features
- Two 14-bit D-to-A converters sampling up to 300 MSPS
- XMC and Parallel RapidIO™* compatible module
- Can function as an enhanced PMC (ePMC) module using Solano Technology high-speed, low latency, deterministic data paths to processing engines
- A single user programmable Xilinx® Virtex-5™ FPGA device for wideband processing
- Total available bandwidth greater than 400 MB/s full duplex communication
- Two banks of 256 MB of DDR2 additional SDRAM memory available to the user FPGA
- 32-bit/33 MHz PCI host bus interface for control and data transfer. 66 MHz available as a future option
- JTAG connector compatible with Xilinx’s ChipScope™ debugger
- 34-pin front panel digital I/O
Benefits
- Enables coherent sampling over multiple boards, with GPS-based time synchronization
- Flexible platform that enables modular architecture design
- High-speed, low latency, deterministic data paths from carrier board
