Curtiss-Wright debuts 16-bit receiver mezzanine card

-- Test & Measurement World, 4/14/2008 11:44:00 AM

Outfitted with two Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs, the XMC-E2201 dual-channel 16-bit digital receiver XMC/PMC mezzanine card from Curtiss-Wright is intended for demanding signal-acquisition applications, such as radar, software-defined radio, and signal-intelligence platforms.

The XMC-E2201 offers analog sampling rates of 160 Msamples/s and speeds the integration of high-performance signal acquisition into rugged deployed COTS VPX, VME, and CompactPCI subsystems. In addition to its twin Virtex-5 FPGAs, the XMC-E2201 provides input bandwidth in excess of 700 MHz, signal-to-noise ratio rated at greater than 77 dB, and high spectral purity.

The dual-FPGA architecture dedicates one FPGA for high-speed acquisition of the dual analog channel inputs. This FPGA also features 16 Mbytes of Zero Bus Turnaround (ZBT) RAM and can be optionally configured with dual GC4016 Graychip coprocessors to enhance its built-in DSP capabilities. The second FPGA provides high-speed I/O, including 64-bit, 133-MHz PCI-X. An eight-lane PCI Express interconnect furnishes direct high-speed off-board data throughput rates of up to 2.5 Gbytes/s.

The XMC-E2201 is designed to operate in rugged environments and is available in a range of air-cooled and conduction-cooled formats.

Prices start at $9620. Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing, www.cwcembedded.com.