vi918 – 1Ch. ADC & 1Ch. DAC

The vi918 is a COTS integration combining the power of an Altera Stratix® V FPGA and Texas Instruments KeyStone Multicore DSP openVPX carrier (VF360) with a 1 channel DAQ module – FMC160

Key points of the DAQ module:

  • One ADC12D1800: Single channel 12-bit 3.6Gsps
  • One AD9129: Single channel 14-bit D/A up to 5.6 Gsps (2.8Gsps without 1:2 interpolation) – LVDS
  • VITA 57.1-2010 compliant
  • Conduction Cooled – Standard Option
  • Single ended AC-coupled analog signals
  • 6 MMCX/SSMC connectors available from the front panel
  • 4 LVTTL signals available from an HDMI connector on the front panel
  • 4 Xilinx MGT available from an HDMI connector on the front panel
  • Clock Source, Sampling Frequency through SPI communication busses
  • Flexible clock tree enables:
    • on board VCO: 2200MHz – 4400MHz
    • external reference clock
    • external sampling clock
  • Power-down modes to switch off unused functions for system power savings
  • Mil-I-46058c Conformal Coating Compliant (optional)
  • HPC – High Pin Count Connector
  • LVDS IO signalling

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
VI918