4DSP Expands its line of FMCs

This week, 4DSP announced the new FMC170 FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC), expanding our growing line of FMC products which leads the industry in performance and functionality. The VITA 57.1-compliant FMC170 is an A/D and D/A module for single-channel data acquisition and high-speed signal processing and recording. This daughter card provides one 10-bit A/D channel with speeds up to 5 Gsps and one 10-bit D/A channel at 5 Gsps. It delivers high-bandwidth connectivity for calculation-heavy FPGA-based applications and is very well-suited for high-performance applications in the communications, medical, and defense industries. The low-latency data path of the FMC170 enables 2.5GHz of instantaneous bandwidth in both the receive and transmit directions, making it an ideal choice for the high data throughput requirements of RADAR/SONAR and aerospace applications, among others.

Last month, we announced a trio of new cards led by the FMC144 A/D and D/A module. It provides four 16-bit A/D channels with speeds up to 370MSPS and four 16-bit D/A channels up to 2.5GSPS. This daughter card is capable of digitizing data over multiple channels required for beamforming and direction finding which makes it well-suited for multi-antenna arrays used in the telecommunications industry.

The Texas Instruments (TI) DAC38J84 D/A and ADC16DX370 A/D converters on the FMC144 can also support RADAR and such wide-bandwidth test applications as mobile testing devices and arbitrary waveform generators because of the high-speed JESD204B serial interface between the data converters and the FPGA. The FMC142 offers the same performance in a two-channel configuration, while the FMC140 module provides four channels of analog-to-digital conversion.

The FMC144 is a standard FMC module with a high-pin count (HPC) connector on the bottom of the card, but it can also be configured as a stackable module with HPC connectors on both sides. Stacked FMCs enable high-channel density and expanded functionality in a small hardware footprint with low power consumption for applications where space is limited such as in aircraft instrumentation and mobile telecom equipment.

TI has been showcasing the FMC144 in combination with the Xilinx Kintex Ultrascale FPGA KCU105 Evaluation Kit at the ongoing series of Avnet X-Fest training events being held throughout North America, Asia, Europe and Japan through January 2015. Next stop, Chicago! The FMC144 and Kintex Ultrascale combo delivers performance and bandwidth that exceed that of existing solutions while reducing power consumption. More details about all of our new FMCs can be found on their respective product pages.

http://www.4dsp.com/FMC170.php
http://www.4dsp.com/FMC144.php
http://www.4dsp.com/FMC142.php
http://www.4dsp.com/FMC140.php