TEKmicro, Ltd - New
Engineering Center
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This is an updated
announcement. Please disregard the previous draft sent in error.
Please accept our apologies for the duplication of information.
TEK Microsystems,
Inc. announced the formation of TEK Microsystems Limited, a
subsidiary design, engineering and support center in Malvern, United
Kingdom. The center will continue to extend the product development
and distribution relationship between TEK Microsystems and the Real
Time Embedded Systems (RTES) group of QinetiQ. Under the direction
of Dr. Bill Smith and initially staffed by several former QinetiQ
RTES engineers, the Malvern center will focus on further development
of the VXS-based products and cores originally designed by QinetiQ
and now licensed to TEK Microsystems. The center will also provide
customer support services for TEK Microsystems' customers throughout
Europe.
Tekmicro
Limited
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"Our relationship with QinetiQ has spurred significant growth at
Tekmicro", said Andrew Reddig, president and CEO/CTO of TEK
Microsystems. "This is the next step in our corporate evolution as we
now take the leadership role of developing world class VXS products
based on the technologies that QinetiQ has created. By integrating the
development team in Malvern with our engineering and operations groups
and taking advantage of our existing technology base, we will be able to
offer customers an increasing range of product options with improvements
in FPGA technology, ruggedization and higher levels of integration."
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Dr. Bill Smith, managing
director of TEK Microsystems Limited, adds, "TEK Microsystems
Limited will continue the tradition of customer innovation and
commitment that we established under the QinetiQ banner. Tekmicro
now provides more VXS-based products than anyone in the embedded
industry and we look forward to maintaining that leadership role."
TEK Microsystems Limited
initially includes a staff of five senior engineers all formerly of
QinetiQ. Products in development include additional system-on-chip
technologies and VXS system development utilizing the latest FPGA
technologies. Combining QinetiQ's FPGA boards and best-in-class FPGA
cores with TEK Microsystems' switched fabric, I/O and systems
expertise provides developers with solutions which reduce the
development time and cost of complex real time embedded systems.
The new subsidiary is
located at: TEK Microsystems, Ltd Unit A, Malvern View Willow End
Park Blackmore Park Road Malvern Worcestershire WR13 6NN Tel.
+ 44 01684 311113
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Callisto VXS-1 Used as
RAID Controller
Tekmicro's Callisto VXS-1 platform is generally considered to be
a very very powerful switch card in a VXS system. It has five Xilinx
Virtex-II Pro FPGAs on a VXS switch card. The FPGAs can be
programmed with a fabric protocol core, or the signal processing
core, or perhaps both, if that is appropriate.
Callisto supports up to
12 links of 2.5 Gbits/s 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 which 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.
Most recently, a major
system integrator has taken advantage of the programmability of
Callisto and its 12 FiberChannel ports to configure a very high
performance RAID Controller. The combination of the five FPGA and
the connectivity of Callisto make it a flexible option for high
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Callisto VXS-1
Overview
Callisto VXS-1 combines a high-density FPGA processing platform with
a digital I/O architecture that provides an unprecedented full
duplex I/O bandwidth of up to 230 Gbits/s. Designed to be hosted in
a fabric switch slot within a VITA 41 (VXS) compliant backplane,
Callisto is equipped with up to five Xilinx Virtex-II Pro XC2VP50
FPGAs. This combination of FPGA technology with very high bandwidth
I/O links makes Callisto an ideal platform for management,
processing, and distribution of the high volumes of data that are
typically generated by advanced sensors in applications such as
radar, mobile communications and electronic warfare.
By providing a massive
FPGA processing resource at the heart of the VXS communications
fabric, Callisto achieves an optimal balance between processing
power and IO bandwidth, maximizing the value that can be extracted
from the use of FPGAs for signal processing. Systems using Callisto
along with front end cards such as Tekmicro's JazzStream or
QinetiQ's Venus and Neptune A/D interfaces now provide FPGA
processing options at all stages in the signal processing chain,
with the bandwidth necessary to fully utilize FPGA processing for
core functions such as adaptive beamforming.
Callisto provides an
important link in a typical VXS processing chain. There is a rapidly
growing ecosystem developing around the VITA 41 open standard and
TekMicro has emerged as a leader in this community, offering a wide
range of VXS payload cards to provide analog and digital I/O
processing solutions. Callisto provides the functionality needed to
efficiently interconnect these products to create scalable, flexible
system solutions that provide a platform for solving the most
challenging real time problems.
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About TEK
Microsystems, Inc.
Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts,
TEK Microsystems, Inc., designs, manufactures and markets a wide
range of advanced high-performance boards and systems for embedded
real-time computing systems. Tekmicro's comprehensive product line
includes intelligent carrier boards based on widely adopted industry
standards and more than 30 I/O modules. These products are used in
real-time systems designed for data acquisition, instrumentation,
control systems and signal processing in customer applications such
as reconnaissance, signals intelligence, satellite telemetry, mine
detection, medical imaging, radar, sonar, semiconductor inspection
and seismic research. |
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