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News Release from: Nallatech | Subject: BenADC 3G
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 13 July 2007
FPGA board speeds wideband sensor
development
S2 Corp is using the Nallatech BenADC 3G COTS FPGA board in the development and testing of a new generation of ultrawideband sensor technology.
S2 Corporation is the first user of the Nallatech BenADC 3G COTS FPGA board, and is employing the unit for the development and testing of a new generation of ultrawideband sensor technology for radar, ladar and spectral analysis applications The BenADC 3G is the Industry's only COTS product combining the extreme DSP capabilities of a Xilinx FPGA with two 8bit 3Gsample/s National Semiconductor ADCs providing users with a powerful data acquisition and processing platform
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Jun 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Each analogue input channel on the BenADC 3G is capable of up to 7.2 effective number of bits (ENOB), 45dB signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and 58dB spurious free dynamic range (SFDR) when sampling a 748MHz input signal at 3Gsample/s.
Multiple trigger and clock signal inputs allow simultaneous sampling of multiple analogue channels enabling customers to easily scale their application.
"This shipment of BenADC 3G to S2 Corporation represents a significant milestone for the defence and security markets", says Stephen Lynas, VP marketing at Nallatech.
"It demonstrates our technical leadership and ability to promptly deliver new analogue capabilities that meet the requirements of our customers".
"The BenADC 3G, used in conjunction with S2 Corporation's advanced optical interface, will enable coherent signal processing operations to be performed on high bandwidth RF signals in real time".
"We expect the BenADC 3G to significantly enhance our reach into the ultrawideband signal processing market", says Kris Merkel, President of S2 Corp.
"With our use of Nallatech solutions combined with our unique photonic signal processing approach, S2 Corporation expects to perform with high instantaneous processing bandwidths upwards of 20GHz".
"This signal processing bandwidth benchmark will simultaneously maintain high dynamic range with lower latencies".
The BenADC 3G is available with a choice of Xilinx Virtex-4TM SX55, LX100 or LX160 user FPGAs and is delivered with a suite of optimised IP cores and reference designs.
Xilinx System Generator library components are also provided allowing non-VHDL users to target the hardware using Simulink.
Software support includes Windows, Linux and VXWorks.
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