Advanced Data
Recording and Storage
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Tekmicro has designed
an application specific system that will receive broadband sampled
data at 1.6 G samples/sec and store it in 12 RAID arrays. The VXS-based
system is configured with a single Neptune 2 A/D board and one
Callisto board providing exceptionally high performance data storage
capability. This results in a smaller, less expensive, less
power-hungry system than has been available previously.
The 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.
Callisto
Provides High Speed Links
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 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 a signal processing core, or
both, if/when appropriate for the application.
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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 panel 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.
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Neptune 2 VXS
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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New Products on the
Horizon
Tekmicro is planning exciting A/D and D/A boards ready to launch
later in 2006. For details contact your Tekmicro rep.
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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 data acquisition, data conversion, storage and recording
systems. Tekmicro's comprehensive product line includes intelligent
carrier boards based on widely adopted industry standards and more
than 30 I/O modules. The Company provides both commercial and rugged
grade products. These products are used in real-time systems
designed for customer applications such as reconnaissance,
electronic warfare, signals intelligence, mine detection, medical
imaging, radar, sonar, semiconductor inspection and seismic
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