Techway have integrated two families of optical transceivers onto FMC and FMC+ modules. The TigerFMC family is based on Samtec’s FireFly flyover optical transceivers. The WildcatFMC family is based on Radiall D-LightSYS optical transceivers that are rugged. Modules are VITA 57.1 (FMC) and VITA 57.4 (FMC+) compliant. The modules are available as full duplex or TX only or RX only variants.
Techway were commissioned by EDF to provide machine vision technology for the nuclear power plants in France. The tool is a powerful video-deblurring tool dedicated to the nuclear-power-plants maintenance operations. The tool, in service in all French EDF power plants, reduces the duration of maintenance operations.
This system, developed in close co-operation with EDF, helps maintenance operators to ensure the quality of their assemblies inspection. NOTURB® filters sub-aquatic videos of the assemblies by digital processing. It eliminates turbulence caused by the fuel assemblies. NOTURB® also brings a valuable help to the operators in assemblies identification, and enables them to make accurate gap measurements. The system is based on DragonEYE.
When Airbus needed an ARINC 818 switch they turned to Techway. Techway have expertise in ARINC 818 and FPGA’s. They implemented an ARINC 818 10 x 10 switch on their general purpose Kintex-7 FPGA board, the PFP-KX7. The PFP-KX7 can be used either in a PCIe slot or standalone with power applied.
Techway developed IP for Image De-convolution for Fluorescence Microscopy so that an algorithm that was previously implemented in software was moved into FPGA hardware. The image processing was sped up from taking 305 seconds in software to only 9 secs in FPGA! A speed up of x34. The image on the left shows the old system and the new system. The FPGA board used is the PFP-KX7, a Kintex-7 based PCIe card.
The LiDAR instrument fires rapid pulses of laser light at a surface, some at up to 150,000 pulses per second. A sensor on the instrument measures the amount of time it takes for each pulse to bounce back. Light moves at a constant and known speed so the LiDAR instrument can calculate the distance between itself and the target with high accuracy. By repeating this in quick succession the instrument builds up a complex ‘map’ of the surface it is measuring. Our high speed Dac and Adc boards are being used in 2D and 3D LiDAR applications. Examples of these are the XA-160M, XU-RT, X6-400M, X6-1000M, PEX7-COP, FMC-250, FMC-500M and FMC-1000.
Some of the fast acquisition systems have both Adc and Dac for use in both Radar systems and Electronic Counter Measure systems where the Adcs and Dacs are both coupled to a FPGA and clock. Examples of these are the XU-TX, X6-400M, XA-160M, PEX7-COP, FMC-250, FMC-500M and FMC-1000.
If you want a route to fast prototyping your multichannel receiver without having to design the digital down conversion stage in the FPGA, then the Eagle System could be your solution. This is a rack mount scalable multichannel system which has Adc front ends and outputs the baseband data over 10 Gigabit (Gb) ethernet. Configuration of the receivers is via a web graphical user interface or SNMP.
Our lower sample rate multi-channel boards such as X3-SD and X3-SD16 often find their way into Wind Tunnel applications. These applications require sample clock synchronisation and trigger across multiple boards, which is supported on our products. Multiple boards may be clocked and triggered by an X3-Timing board.
