X5-GSPS

Features

• Two 1.5 GSPS, 8-bit A/D channels (National ADC08D1500)
• +/-1V, 50 ohm, SMA inputs
• Xilinx Virtex5, SX95T FPGA
• 512 MB DDR2 DRAM
• 4MB QDR-II SRAM
• 8 Rocket IO private links, 2.5 Gbps each
• >1 GB/s, 8-lane PCI Express Host Interface
• Power Management features
• XMC Module (75x150 mm)
• PCI Express (VITA 42.3)

Applications

• Wireless Receiver
• WLAN, WCDMA, WiMAX front end
• RADAR
• Electronic Warfare
• Electronic Counter Measures (ECM)
• High Speed Data Recording and Playback
• High speed servo controls
• Spectral Analysis
• IP development

Overview

The X5-GSPS is an XMC I/O module featuring two 8-bit, National Semiconductor 1.5 GSPS ADC08D1500 A/Ds with a Virtex5 FPGA computing core, DRAM and SRAM memory, and eight lane PCI Express host interface.

A Xilinx Virtex5 SX95T with 512 MB DDR2 DRAM and 4MB QDR-II memory provide a very high performance DSP core for demanding applications such as emerging wireless standards. The close integration of the analog IO, memory and host interface with the FPGA enables real-time signal processing at extremely high rates exceeding 300 GMACs per second.

The X5 XMC modules couple Innovative's powerful Velocia architecture with a high performance, 8-lane PCI Express interface that provides over 1 GB/s sustained transfer rates to the host. Private links to host cards with > 1.6 GB/s capacity using P16 are provided for system integration. The X5 family can be fully customized using VHDL and MATLAB using the FrameWork Logic toolset. The MATLAB BSP supports real-time hardware-in-the-loop development using the graphical, block diagram Simulink environment with Xilinx System Generator.

Software tools for host development include C++ libraries and drivers for Windows and Linux. Application examples demonstrating the module features and use are provided.