vi828 – 6 Ch. ADC

The vi828 is a COTS integration combining the power of an Altera Stratix® V FPGA and Texas Instruments KeyStone Multicore DSP openVPX carrier (VF360) with a 6 channel ADC (FM581)

Key points of the ADC module:

  • 3x Texas Instruments ASC16DX370 Dual ADCs
  • SNR: 69 dBFS with AIN = 231 MHz
  • SFDR: 85 dBFS with AIN = 231 MHz
  • Sampling resolution: 16 bits
  • Front panel input connectors
    • Analogue Inputs
      • Six single ended AC coupled analogue inputs
      • RF input bandwidth (-3 dB): 800MHz
      • Full scale input power: +7 dBm (1.4 Vpp)
      • Input impedance: 50 Ohm
    • Clock Input
      • Single ended AC coupled LVPECL/LVDS
      • Frequency range: 50 – 370 MHz
      • Input Voltage: sine or square wave (1V p-p)
      • Input impedance: 50 Ohm
    • Trigger Input
      • Single ended DC coupled LVPECL/LVTTL
      • Input impedance: 50 Ohm
  • FMC Interface
    • 6x JESD204B interfaces for digitized samples
    • SPI interface from ADC configuration
    • Discrete control lines
  • Firmware and Support Software
    • FDK for custom firmware development on VF360
    • SDK with LINUX driver and example application
    • Firmware development services available on request.

 

Key points of the OpenVPX carrier:

Processing FPGA:

  • Stratix V family in the KF40 (1517 FBGA) package
    • GX Device variants: 5SGXA3, 5SGXA4, 5SGXA5, 5SGXA7, 5SGXA9 and 5SGXAB
    • GS Device variants: 5SGSD4, 5SGSD5, 5SGSD6 and 5SGSD8
  • Embedded device memory: 19-52 Mb
  • Embedded device multipliers (18×18): 512 – 3,926
  • DDR3 and QDRII+ external memory
    • Up to 2GB DDR3 @ 667MHz (arranged as two 256M x 32-bit banks), default 1GB
    • Up to 32MB QDRII+ SRAM @ 400MHz (arranged as two 8M x 18-bit banks), default 16MB

Digital Signal Processing:

  • TI KeyStone Multicore C667x family of processors
    • Up to 8 cores @ 1.2 GHz
  • External memory:

FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC-HPC):

  • 10x High-Speed Serial Interface lanes
  • LVDS interface on LA and HA

VPX Interface:

  • Complies with OpenVPX MOD3-PAY-3F2U-16.2.12-2 module profile
    • PCIe Gen2 Data plane (3x Fat Pipes)
    • GigE 1000BASE-BX Control plane (2x Ultra-Thin Pipes)
    • Payload module with System Controller capability
  • Supports FPGA configurable User I/O on P2
    • 24x single-ended 2.5V LVCMOS I/Os
    • 10x High-Speed Serial Interface lanes
VI828