FMC SFP SFP+ VITA 57.1 High Speed Serial Link Card

FMC SFP+

The FMC SFP SFP+ card, compliant with the VITA 57.1 standard, offers high-speed serial interfaces. Equipped with 3 or 4 SFP+ SFP cages and a programmable oscillator, this mezzanine card enables the implementation of numerous protocols (Fiber Channel, ARINC 818, Serial FPDP, UDP, eSATA, etc.).

This FMC SFP SFP+ card is also equipped with an additional FMC connector, allowing it to extend its interface to 6, 8, 9 or 12 SFP/SFP+, by stacking the cards.

Compatible with many FPGA cards, including the PFP-KX7+ card , the assembly allows copper or optical links to be interfaced.

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Eight 300MSPS 16 bit Dac with Artix7 FPGA for Signal Generation

ISI LLC have released the third board in a new family of high performance data acquisition modules that is centred around the Xilinx Artix^®-7.

The XA-TX is an XMC IO module featuring eight 16-bit, 300 MSPS DAC channels designed for high speed arbitrary waveform generation, wireless transmission, and RADAR pulse generation applications. Flexible trigger methods include counted frames, software triggering and external triggering. The sample rate clock is either an external clock or on- board programmable PLL clock source. Data acquisition control, signal processing, buffering, and system interface functions are implemented in a Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA device. Two 256Mx16 memories provide data buffering and FPGA computing memory.

The logic 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. The PCI Express 2.0 interface supports continuous data rates up to 3200 MB/ s between the module and the host. A flexible data packet system implemented over the PCIe interface provides both high data rates to the host that is readily expandable for custom applications.

The XA-TX module is a wideband multichannel signal generation FPGA board and has:

• Eight 300MSPS 16 bit Dac’s.
• Artix^®-7A200T2 with 33,650 slices, >13Mb of block ram and 740 DSP slices.
• 1GB of DDR3 memory attached to the FPGA for use as virtual FIFO’s between the analogue front end and the 4 lane Gen2 PCIe interface.
• A PLL and reference oscillator to provide the analogue front end with a high stability clock.
• Four lanes of Aurora links for communication with other XA modules.
• Flash memory for logic configuration storage.

The board is ideal for multi channel transmitting applications such as beamforming, RADAR, LiDAR and optical. Innovative’s XMC modules can be used in a variety of hosts using their adapters and standalone hosts. This includes:

• Desktop PC’s – PCI adapter, PCIe x1 adapter, PCIe x8 adapter.
• 3U chassis – cPCI adapter, PXIe adapter.
• VPX – VPX adapter.
• Standalone PC’s – ePC-nano, ePC-Duo.

All modules come complete with software drivers and examples for Windows and Linux operating systems. The libraries and example apps are written in C++ and are supplied with sourcecode. Customers who wish to customise the logic in the FPGA need to purchase the Framework Logic library.

The XA family will replace the X3 family which was released in 2007 around the Spartan3A DSP.

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Dual 500MSPS 14 bit Adc and 615MSPS 16 bit Dac with Artix7 FPGA for Stimulus Response applications

ISI LLC are been shipping the newest board in a new family of high performance data acquisition modules that is centred around the Xilinx Artix^®-7. The XA-500M is targeted at Stimulus Response applications. These devices provide the highest performance-per-watt fabric, transceiver line rates, DSP processing, and Analogue Mixed Signal integration in a cost-optimized FPGA. The family is the best value for a variety of cost- and power-sensitive applications including software-defined radio, machine vision cameras, and low-end wireless backhaul. On top of that, the Vivado toolset is free to use on the Artix-7 family, including the largest device, the 7A200T2 which is used on the new XA family.

The XA-500M module is a wideband stimulus response measurement FPGA board and has:

• Dual 500MSPS 14 bit Adc’s.
• Dual 615MSPS 16 bit Dac’s.
• Artix^®-7A200T2 with 33,650 slices, >13Mb of block ram and 740 DSP slices.
• 2GB of DDR3 memory attached to the FPGA for use as virtual FIFO’s between the analogue front end and the 4 lane Gen2 PCIe interface.
• A PLL and reference oscillator to provide the analogue front end with a high stability clock.
• Four lanes of Aurora links for communication with other XA modules.
• Flash memory for logic configuration storage.

The board is ideal for wideband stimulus response applications such as RADAR, LiDAR and optical. Innovative’s XMC modules can be used in a variety of hosts using their adapters and standalone hosts. This includes:

• Desktop PC’s – PCI adapter, PCIe x1 adapter, PCIe x8 adapter.
• 3U chassis – cPCI adapter, PXIe adapter.
• VPX – VPX adapter.
• Standalone PC’s – ePC-nano, ePC-Duo.

All modules come complete with software drivers and examples for Windows and Linux operating systems. The libraries and example apps are written in C++ and are supplied with sourcecode. Customers who wish to customise the logic in the FPGA need to purchase the Framework Logic library.

The XA family will replace the X3 family which was released in 2007 around the Spartan3A DSP.

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High speed optical communication using SAMTEC FireFly optical connector on FMC/FMC+ module

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• Samtec FireFly on FMC – TigerFMC
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Product launch : TigerFMC+ & WildcatFMC, 3rd generation of optical mezzanine cards

High-speed Optical Communication cards up to 336 Gbps

The fastest high-speed FMC cards on the market

TECHWAY launches its 3rd generation of optical mezzanine cards for high-bandwidth communication. Our new offer uses three high-end technologies :

• VITA FMC+ Standard
• SAMTEC FireFlyTM technology for the TigerFMC+
• RADIALL technology for the WildcatFMC

Taking advantage of the latest VITA FMC+ standard (VITA 57.4), our cards are ready-to-use and easy-to-use. Our FMC solutions feature 12 full duplex links up to 14 Gbps.

TigerFMC+ cards bring you the widest choice of high-speed configurations. These solutions are cost effective. They will reach up to 28 Gbps per link soon.

WildcatFMC are 100% French solutions. These cards are available in a rugged version for harsh environments.

Ready-to-use & Cost-effective sFPDP FPGA Platform

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• Titan Serial FPDP XMC Module
• Serial FPDP Data Recorder

Raven

TECHWAY & Nolam Embedded Systems join their R&D efforts to design RAVEN, a cost-effective sFPDP FPGA solution.

The RAVEN frame grabber is a flexible platform implementing 4 or 8 sFPDP channels with receive and transmit engine for high-performance data-processing.

Based on a Kintex-7 Xilinx FPGA, this sFPDP platform can support up to 10Gb/s data link. RAVEN is fully dimensioned to implement the VITA 17.1 sFPDP standard (Flow control, CRC, framed/unframed, Copy/Loop mode), offering 2,5Gb/s data rate per link.

The RAVEN carrier has a DDR3 SDRAM available for ultra-deep FIFOs for applications where high elasticity is required.

The board, thanks to its SFP cages, is compliant with copper or fiber. The board is delivered with a Free NES-ANVIL API.

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Easy switching of ARINC 818 data in real time

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• Rugged Switch
• Protocol Analyser
• Converter
• Frame Grabber PCIe Gen3
• Frame Grabber
• 4×4 Switch
• Development Suite
• Recorder and Playback Systems

ARINC 818 Product Range

TECHWAY (France) & Great River Technology (USA) have join forces to offer a wide range of ARINC 818 switches designed to simplify multi-destination and multi-source architectures.

The ARINC 818 Switches are built on the FPGA technology associated with optical interfaces with very high density. All the switches ensure that video frames remain intact and void of corruption during switching.

These solutions are ICD independent, the link rate and virtualisation configuration are set at the order.

These switches are used on major aircraft equipment programs.

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Frame Grabber & Image Processing engine using FPGA Platform with Xilinx Artix-7 or Zynq

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DragonEYE

Machine vision applications process an ever-increasing amount of information that must not be limited by the processing capabilities of computers. To exceed this bandwidth limit, TECHWAY has developed a range of multi-camera acquisition cards equipped with a processor unique of its kind.

Indeed, the DragonEYE series, thanks to its Vision Engine (FPGA technology), allows to unload the computers by offering the possibility to integrate the image pre-processing  directly.

This powerful and complex technology is offered in a «ready-to-use» format accessible to all image developers. It allows them to focus on their applications by pushing the limits of their equipment.

The DragonEYE Lite and the DragonEYE Smart have been specially designed for multi-camera applications.

DragonEYE Lite

The DragonEYE Lite card, thanks to its « Vision Engine » Xilinx Artix-7 FPGA technology, allows to acquire up to 4 GigE Vision streams and to preprocess each stream in real-time. A series of pre-processing are included in the card and can be easily parameterized by the user.

DragonEYE Smart

The DragonEYE Smart card, with its « Vision Engine » Xilinx ZYNQ technology, can acquire up to 8 GigEVision streams. With the ZYNQ (SoC) embedded processor, customisation of DragonEYE Smart is made available by developing preprocessing on the card, in C language with the OpenCV library, and by taking advantage of the FPGA accelerator.

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Multichannel Data Acquisition & Processing using FPGA’s and 10 Gb Ethernet.

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Eagle Solution

EAGLE, TECHWAY’s multichannel data acquisition solutions, extract wide or narrow bands of acquisition bandwidth to share it with the communication network. EAGLE solutions are ready-to-use and user-friendly. Data processing algorithms are included and configurable thanks to an intuitive WEB interface.

TECHWAY offers you easy access to complex technologies (FPGA, highspeed ADC, etc.). Our mission is to reduce costs, risks and development time of your project with pre-integrated solutions.

The scalability of our EAGLE solution allows an evolution of your systems and eases the integration thanks to 10 Gb Ethernet standardised communication interfaces.

Our EAGLE multichannel data acquisition solutions are used in major projects eg: European Space Agency projects or to equip new passive RADARS.

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High speed optical communication using RADIALL D-Lightsys on FMC/FMC+ module

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RADIALL D-Lightsys ® Technology

Since 2007, RADIALL D-Lightsys ® transceivers have been flying with military and commercial aircrafts and have proven to be the perfect solution for demanding applications.

The new 10+ G range utilizes D-Lightsys® technology and offers the unique benefits, including a very small footprint and extended link budget for applications where long term data transmission reliability is required. The low power consumption makes these modules especially suited for on board applications (aircraft, UAV, satellites).

Directly compatible with most digital balanced signal protocols, the 10+ G range meets IEEE std 10G Base-SR10, Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, SFPDP, sRIO and VSR requirements as well as ARINC 818 and DVI video standards.

The D-Lightsys® solutions are qualified for shock and vibration and are in compliance with MIL standards.

The unique embedded controller provides wide operating parameters including independent channel control, equalization/pre-emphasis and link survey data.
These 10+ G devices include an internal control loop to ensure a constant link budget within an extended temperature range of -40/+85°C.

WildcatFMC/FMC+

Optical communications have become the new standard in harsh, demanding environments.

TECHWAY brings you a state-of-the-art solution with the WildcatFMC series. These communication boards are dedicated to markets where customers have strong environmental requirements.

Based on the latest RADIALL D-Lightsys® components, the WildcatFMC solutions offer up to 24 channels @ up to 12 Gbps.

FMC compliant (VITA 57.1)

• WildcatFMC-4_10 is a mezzanine card which offers 4 full duplex optical links at 10 Gbps each.

FMC+ compliant (VITA 57.4)

• WildcatFMC-12_12 is a mezzanine card which offers 12 full duplex optical links at 12 Gbps each.
• WildcatFMC-24-Tx_12 is a mezzanine card which offers 24 Tx (transmission) optical links at 12 Gbps each.
• WildcatFMC-24-Rx_12 is a mezzanine card which offers 24 Rx (reception) optical links at 12 Gbps each.

All the WildcatFMC mezzanine cards can be easily integrated into existing system or into brand-new architecture.

The WildcatFMC solutions are compatible with both air and conduction cooled environment.

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High speed optical communication using SAMTEC FireFly optical connector on FMC/FMC+ module

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SAMTEC FireFly TECHNOLOGY

Techway has selected Samtec’s FireFly technology as optical backplane and front end solutions for high density and high bandwidth interfaces compliant with the VITA 57.1 standard (FPGA Mezzanine Card).

TechwaY’s TigerFMC features 10 full duplex links at a rate of up to 10 Gigabits per second for an aggregate bit rate of 200 Gbps. This 200 Gbps aggregate bandwidth outperforms all existing communication solutions. TigerFMC is available in both rugged and commercial versions. This high density optical FMC can be installed on legacy hardware, either to create high density signals on the front-end or to expand existing VPX configurations with a VITA 66 fiber-optic backplane.

The computing market is driven by a growing demand for processing capabilities which require ever-increasing communication bandwidth. Optical High-Speed Serial links (HSS) are the perfect solution to this need. Communication protocols are evolving to take advantage of the high bandwidth capabilities of these new HSS links. The market is also looking for simplicity of connectivity, even for optics.

The TigerFMC allows system integrators to easily integrate new broadband protocols on their legacy hardware (Gigabit Ethernet, sFPDP, Fiber Channel, Aurora, ARINC818).

Samtec’s FireFly micro flyover cable system enables TechwaY’s TigerFMC to meet these requirements by offering up to 10 full duplex high-speed serial links at 10 Gbps each, and intelligent connectivity ready for front-end and backplane implementation.  The FireFly x12 unidirectional or bidirectional optical transceiver assembly, with proven 850 nm VCSEL array technology, achieves 14 Gbps per channel, with 28 Gbps (336 Gbps aggregate) and x4 bidirectional systems in development.  FireFly allows an easy upgrade from copper to optical with the same connector and footprint.

“TechwaY is taking full advantage of FireFly’s physical design and performance characteristics,” said Adam Linderman, SI Product Manager for Samtec.  “With FireFly, Samtec has addressed many of the considerations that must be taken into account when designing a system utilizing mid-board optics: density, board layout, power consumption, and thermals.  FireFly addresses these concerns with an integral heat sink for thermal considerations, high speed signal and control signals segregated in the engine, and a user-friendly edge card mating design.  These core characteristics allow FireFly to be the most dense 14G solution in the market.  The simplification that comes from using FireFly truly sets the solution apart in the mid-board market.  This is being confirmed with the growing number of adoptions we are seeing in both the high performance computing and FMC markets today.”

The TigerFMC is 100% compliant with VITA 57. More details…

Samtec, Inc., is an international supplier of interconnects, cable assemblies, and design solutions.  Products include high speed board level interconnects, high speed cable assemblies, optical systems, IC packaging and microelectronics expertise, among others.  Samtec provides full channel system support, streamlining and optimizing the signal path, from the IC to the board and beyond.  Samtec’s approximately 4,000 worldwide associates are located at four primary manufacturing centers, six support offices, and sales and support offices on every continent.

More information about SAMTEC: www.samtec.com or www.samtec.com/firefly