RFEL has announced qu-IQ, a flexible, resource rich development platform for demanding signal processing applications. With a Xilinx Kintex 7 FPGA, a Xilinx Zynq 7045 SoChip and 3Gbyte of on board DDR3 memory, the platform is housed on a PCIe 2.0 host card.The qu-IQ features 750k logic cells and nearly 2500 DSP48 slices, which provides a resource for the development and proving of modern signal processing applications.
The device comes with an evaluation version of RFEL’s ChannelCore Flex IP core that provides rapid wideband channelisation out of the box, with 128 channels with real-time programmable response frequency, bandwidth and channel response as well as a powerful fractional rate resampler on each channel.
Dr Alex Kuhrt, RFEL’s CEO, said: “We have drawn on all our years of expertise on creating state of the art, digital signal processing solutions on FPGAs to design this open development platform for prototyping and algorithm development, which is also targeted at hardware-in-loop testing.This will enable customers to reduce their time to market and de-risk complex DSP development programmes for defence, security, military and industrial applications.”
A PCIe Gen2x8 interface enables DMA data transfers at up to 24Gbit/s to and from a host PC. Additional off-board connectivity and control is via Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0.
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Graham Pitcher
Source: www.newelectronics.co.uk