FMC carriers optimise throughput and minimise latency

Active cooling is provided for both the FPGA and FMC, making the modules suitable for power-hungry applications or those requiring temperature stability for good performance.

The PCI516 features a Xilinx Virtex-7 690T FPGA, which provides 3,600 DSP slices, 52,920kb RAM and 690,000 logic cells. The PCI592 features a Xilinx Kintex UltraScale XCKU115 FPGA, which provides 5,520 DSP slices, 75.9Mb RAM and 1,451,000 logic cells. The PCI595 features the Xilinx Virtex UltraScale XCVU440 FPGA, which provides 2,880 DSP slices, 88.6Mb RAM and 5,541,000 logic cells.

Saeed Karamooz, CEO and chief architect, VadaTech, commented: “By leveraging existing VadaTech IP into these new PCIe cards, we have been able to ensure they are stable and proven in development and deployment. The highest performance UltraScale FPGAs are suited for ASIC prototyping or emulation and 100G transponder or muxponder applications. We have a customer using this technology for algorithm development and testing prior to deploying in an ASIC for high performance testing of next generation networks, including 5G. The PCI516 allows developers to integrate fast, high-resolution ADCs and is suited for applications that require high-performance analogue and digital processing.”

The FPGAs on these new PCIe cards are supported by 64-bit wide memory banks, which allows for large buffer sizes to be stored during processing as well as for queueing the data to the host. VadaTech provides BSP support and royalty-free VHDL code to support developers in bringing up systems.