The Tekmicro system uses the A/D capabilities of the Neptune 2 to receive the sampled data which is then sent to the Callisto VXS switch card. Callisto includes five FPGAs and 12 front panel fiber ports. In this application, the FPGAs are programmed to each include two FibreChannel cores that take advantage of the PowerPC 405 processors in the Xilinx Virtex II Pro FPGA. The data is then streamed out through Callisto's 12 FiberChannel ports to 12 RAID disk arrays for storage.

"Tekmicro's advanced VXS products continue to be well received by our military market target accounts," comments Paul Martino, vice president of sales, marketing and customer support. "This win from Harris continues to fuel growth and product development at Tekmicro. Our UK-based development team is working on extending and enhancing our current VXS products and we are confident that this growth will continue into 2007."

Tekmicro's Callisto VXS-1 platform is a very powerful card in a VXS system. It has five Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs on the VXS switch card. The FPGAs can be programmed with a fabric protocol core, or the signal processing core, or both, if/when appropriate for the application. Callisto supports up to 12 links of 2.5 Gbits/s each on the front panel to other system components (e.g. sensor front ends) which may be located remotely, or to provide a bridge to separate chassis (e.g. legacy processing racks). The front panel links are implemented using Small Form Pluggable (SFP) modules that can be populated with fiber optic or copper transceivers to support a wide range of protocols such as Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infiniband or Serial FPDP. Using the front panels connection for I/O, Callisto can also act as a standalone FPGA sensor processing resource or co-processing resource if other VXS cards are not required.

Tekmicro's Neptune 2 VXS, combines FPGA technology with a dual channel, 2.2 GSPS (giga samples per second) architecture. Neptune 2 is a 6U VME / VXS payload card for high-speed streaming analog-to-digital applications, combining an ultra high sample rate with up to 10-bit resolution and multi-channel synchronization to single sample resolution, an improvement of 16x over existing technologies. With Neptune 2 developers can build high performance embedded systems without sacrificing open standard interoperability.

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The JazzFiber PMC combines the advantages of the ANSI/VITA 17.1 Serial FPDP interconnect with highly integrated FPGA technology to provide unparalleled channel density and throughput in a single PMC module.

* I/O Connector: Duplex LC fiber
* Fully compliant with PCI and PCI-X specifications
* Interoperable with supported hosts.
* Memory buffer
* Allows full speed quad Serial FPDP interfaces with deep buffering; supports custom applications that require lookup or temporary memory
* All topologies supported
* Point-to-point, daisy-chain, single and multiple master ring topology support allows application specific customization

Serial FPDP provides fast, low latency point-to-point or broadcast connections between sensors and processing systems at data rates up to 247 MB/s. The JazzFiber module supports four independent Serial FPDP interfaces along with sufficient memory bandwidth for full throughput buffering of 1 GB of data.

An FPGA-based PCI core is used to support both legacy PCI 2.3 functionality at 33 MHz along with PCI-X at 66, 100, and 133 MHz for aggregate throughput of up to 1067 MB/s. Future modules will support VITA 42 XMC platforms with compatible FPGA and software APIs. As an open industry standard, Serial FPDP provides interoperability with a wide range of solutions including Systran's FibreXtreme family of products and Mercury Computer Systems' RINOJ-F interfaces. All topologies are supported including point-to-point, daisy-chained, single master ring and multiple master ring. Tekmicro's JazzFiber Quad Serial FPDP module is fully compatible with PowerRACE I/O controllers and processors, as well as a wide range of VME and CompactPCI single board computers.

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