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News Release from: RF Engines | Subject: PFT hardware/software demonstrator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 February 2004
French CEA investigates novel transform
RF Engines has recently leased a hardware/software demonstrator to one of the French Atomic Energy Commission Laboratories to evaluate the pipelined frequency transform hardware architecture.
RF Engines has recently leased a hardware/software demonstrator to one of the French Atomic Energy Commission Laboratories (Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique or CEA) to evaluate the PFT (pipelined frequency transform) signal processing hardware architecture, in connection with its ongoing programme of real time RF signal characterisation The work was carried out at a CEA facility just south of Paris
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Sep 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The main purpose of the work was to benchmark the use of the PFT, one of RF Engines' proprietary FPGA signal processing designs, for the analysis of very-short-duration incoming RF signals.
The work focused on pulsewidth measurement performance of the PFT, and assessed the performance of signal detection, acquisition, and tracking of signals down to 100ns width, across a matrix of tracking speeds and durations.
The development system used for the work incorporates a scaleable PFT with up to 1024 points running on four 1 million gate Xilinx Virtex E FPGAs, with performance data being displayed via proprietary ASDS advanced spectrum display software.
John Summers, VP of Sales and Marketing at RF Engines commented: "This work with CEA demonstrates the wide range of applications for our most advanced signal analysis techniques.
We are optimistic that this signal characterisation work could lead on to further developments in this very interesting area".
Jean Russat, Project Leader for High-Frequency Electronic Systems Developments at CEA commented: "The availability of a complete test system incorporating the most advanced signal processing design as a test package from RF Engines has been very worthwhile in progressing our research in this specialist area of RF signal analysis.
We will be very interested in evaluating RF Engines' latest development system when this becomes available early in the new year".
Francois Durbin, Senior Expert in Modelling and Signal Processing also from CEA said: "The first results we obtained were encouraging, regarding future use of PFT for real-time accurate analysis of complex signals".
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