New Virtex 6 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC)

Northwich, Cheshire, UK (February 2010). Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) today announced the launch of the new Lyrtech Perseus 601x Virtex 6 Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) with FPGA Mezzanine Card (FMC) support.

The Perseus 601X is designed for high performance, high-bandwidth and low-latency processing applications. Its FMC expansion site offers almost endless I/O possibilities. The card also takes full advantage of the Virtex-6 FPGA’s power, which, when combined with Lyrtech’s advanced software development tools, makes the Perseus 601X perfect to reduce size, complexity, risk and cost in leading-edge telecommunications, networking, industrial, defense and medical applications.

The ADAC250 FPGA mezzanine card (FMC) is the first of Lyrtech’s FMCs and designed around high-performance A/D and D/A conversion technology from Texas Instruments — it integrates one dual, 14-bit, 250 MSPS analog-to-digital converter (ADS62P59) and a dual, 16-bit, 1 GSPS digital-to-analog converter (DAC5682Z; also capable of a 2–4× interpolation mode). Combined with multiple clocks and synchronization modes, the ADAC250 is at its best in DSP applications such as software-defined radio (SDR), advanced telecommunications (MIMO systems, cognitive radios, beamformers, LTE, WiMAX), signal intelligence (SIGINT), radar, sonar, and medical imaging applications.

The ADAC250 uses the VITA 57.1 standard, widely used in the digital signal processing industry, which makes it easier for developers to integrate FPGAs into their embedded system designs. The FMC is completely Plug & Play with Lyrtech’s µTCA Perseus AMCs, but the ADAC250 can as easily be used on any FMC carrier out there.

The Perseus 601X comes with a comprehensive set of integrated, multilayer software development tools that offer users a choice of environments – from a base-level hand-coded design environment to a high-level graphical model-based design environment.

Commonly referred to as the BSDK, the base level kit offers reconfigurable FPGA components and reference designs, along with the infrastructure to implement, simulate, synthesize, validate, and deploy complete applications on the card’s Virtex-6 FPGA. This development kit takes care of the tiresome burden of reinventing interface drivers for the FPGA, freeing you to focus on unique, value-added development. The kit includes a complete and fully tested set of Virtex-6 interfaces to all the Perseus 601X’s peripherals.

The optional Perseus 601X MBDK allows you to easily design high-performance digital signal processing systems within the card’s FPGA with the MATLAB/Simulink design environment and extensive DSP IP libraries from Xilinx. For even greater flexibility, System Generator for DSP supports MicroBlaze soft processor cores, which allows using high-level abstractions that can be automatically compiled into the FPGA without losing any performance over VHDL designs. Use it with ChipScope Pro to troubleshoot your applications. These features, combined with the capabilities of the Virtex-6 FPGA, make it simple for designers to harness the parallel processing power of an FPGA.

Lyrtech is proud to embrace the new decade with the µTCA/AMC form factor, which basically erases all the limitations of the cPCI form factor. Advantages such as direct User-PC to card communication (no need for a CPU board), ultra-high-bandwidth communication (8x PCIe/SRIO/GigE), ease of interface with third-party products (RAID recorder, fiber channel communication, disk storage, etc.) all come with the new µTCA standard. Also, Lyrtech also embraces the FMC module standard for its I/Os, which will make it possible to resell I/O modules to other FMC carriers, as well as integrate third-party I/O boards to the product line.

The Virtex-6 family of FPGAs is the high-performance silicon foundation for targeted design platforms. Consuming 50 % less power and costing 20 % less than the previous generation of FPGAs, the Virtex-6 family is built with the right mix of programmability, integrated blocks for digital signal processing, memory and connectivity support – including high-speed transceiver capabilities – to satisfy the insatiable demand for higher bandwidth and higher performance.

About Lyrtech

Lyrtech (www.lyrtech.com) develops and manufactures advanced digital signal processing solutions for companies worldwide, a vital technology to network and wireless communications, audio and video processing, as well as electronic systems in all fields of technology. Lyrtech offers a full range of DSP-FPGA development platforms, as well as design, prototyping, and manufacturing of electronic products through its Innovator division. From the company’s state-of-the-art 4,645-m2 (50,000-ft2) facility, Lyrtech’s Innovator division offers prototyping services, new product introduction services, turnkey assembly, box build assembly, and other electronic manufacturing services, providing customers with a quality production run of highly complex products with a fast turnaround. Lyrtech works in partnership with industry leaders such as Texas Instruments, The MathWorks, and Xilinx. Lyrtech’s customers include many prestigious names of the consumer electronics, telecommunications, aerospace, and defense fields such as BAE Systems, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC), the European Aerospace Defence and Space Company (EADS), Fujitsu, Harris, ITT, Motorola, Neural Audio, NTT DoCoMo, and Samsung-Thales.

About Kane Computing

KCL (www.kanecomputing.co.uk) has been providing Image Processing, DSP and high performance computing products for use in industry, education and research since 1987 and is a Texas Instruments Third Party Partner specialising in consultancy and advice on TI development tools/platforms and image processing applications. KCL have extensive knowledge and experience of providing video compression solutions for many industries particularly for digital video security and high quality broadcast applications. KCL has a policy of continual improvement and operates its business in accordance with the requirements of ISO9001:2000.

About Xilinx

Xilinx (www.xilinx.com) programmable chips are the innovation platform of choice for today’s leading companies for the design of tens of thousands of products that improve the quality of our everyday lives. Due to their inherent flexibility, Xilinx award-winning programmable solutions – silicon, software, IP, evaluation kits and reference designs – are used by more than 20,000 customers to: Deliver innovative new products to market in a matter of weeks, Drastically reduce research and development costs, Change or upgrade end product features and functions “on the fly” to meet new market demands and adapt to changing industry standards

Contact Information

Kane Computing Ltd.

Suite I, Ascot Court,
71-73 Middlewich Road
Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 7BP
UK

tele: 01606 351006
fax: 01606 351007
sales@kanecomputing.com
www.kanecomputing.co.uk

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