A recorder, capable of capturing a wide band of signals in real time to disk, has been introduced by Pentek. The RTR 2729A, designed for Talon RF/IF signal recording and playback systems, is equipped with a 3.6 GHz 12-bit A/D converter. With its DDC, the recorder can capture tunable IF signals with bandwidths up to 360MHz continuously, for over four hours.

Pentek Inc announced the newest member of its highly popular Cobalt family: the Model 52663, the industry’s first full spectrum GSM channelizer 3U VPX module. Using a highly-optimized IP core for the Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA, the 52663 is ideal for mobile monitoring systems that must capture some or all of the 1100 uplink and downlink signals in both upper and lower GSM bands. This full global system for mobile communications spectrum monitorin...

The Model RTV 2601 single-channel multiband recording and playback system from Pentek is the first member of the Talon Value Series of rack-mount recorders for laboratory and benign environments. It represents Pentek’s best value in a single channel recording and playback system. Equipped with a 200 MHz, 16-bit A/D, it is ideal for recording signal bandwidths up to 80 MHz with over 80 dB of spurious free dynamic range (SFDR.)

Based on the Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, the Model 52751 is the latest addition to Pentek's Onyx family. Suitable for connection to HF or IF ports of communication or radar systems, the two-channel, wideband transceiver 3U VPX board features built-in data capture and generation. This eliminates the requirement for developing additional FPGA IP.

Expanding their Onyx family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules, Pentek has introduced the Onyx Model 71741. Based on the high density Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA, this one-channel, 3.6GHz 12-bit A/D or two-channel, 1.8GHz 12-bit A/D XMC module can digitise signal bandwidths up to 1500MHz.

The Talon RTX Rackmount series is a line of extreme environment recorders from Pentek. The recorders are designed to provide a combination of high performance and large storage capacity in a military-specified rackmount chassis. Designed for field operation, the RTX Rackmount series provides up to 30TB of SSD storage with aggregate recording rates up to 5GB/s.

Pentek has announced the first members of its Flexor line of FMC (FPGA Mezzanine Card) carriers and FMC modules, what they say is the industry's first FMC/VPX carrier with optical backplane interface. They are suitable for use as a signal interface for radar, communications or general data acquisition applications.

Achieving 4GB/s aggregate recording and playback rates, the RTR 2728 and RTR 2748 rackmount recorders signal an expansion of Pentek's Talon family of turnkey recording systems. Designed to operate as complete recording systems, the recorders reproduce and record wideband IF signals at sample rates up to 1 GSamples/sec.

Pentek has today introduced a new 2-channel analog RF tuner. Accepting RF signals over the range of 400 MHz to 4 GHz, the 7120 RF tuner amplifies, filters and downconverts them to an IF signal suitable for analog-to-digital conversion. An expansion of the existing Bandit RF tuner product line, the 7120 is specifically designed for communications, radar and signal intelligence applications.

Pentek introduces the Onyx Model 71730, the newest member of its highly popular Onyx family of high-speed data converter XMC FPGA modules. A single channel, 1 GHz 12-bit A/D, 1 GHz 16-bit D/A module, the Onyx Model 71730 is based on the high density Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA. Supporting signal bandwidths up to 400 MHz, the Model 71730 can receive and transmit at the same sampling rate.

Pentek introduce three additions to the Talon family of high-speed turnkey recording systems handling low-voltage differential signaling digital I/O: the Model RTS 2718 commercial rackmount, the Model RTR 2738 rugged portable and the Model RTR 2758 rugged rackmount recorders. Using state-of-the-art disk storage technology, these systems are highly flexible and achieve aggregate recording rates up to 4 GBytes per second.

Pentek has today announced a new digital I/O module featuring low-voltage differential signalling I/O connected to a Virtex-6 FPGA, the Model 71610. LVDS is a general purpose digital interface operating at very high speeds over inexpensive twisted-pair or flat ribbon copper cables. It is popular for many common control or data capture applications such as high-speed video, graphics, video camera data transfers and general purpose computer buses.

The 52xxx board family as power- and cost-reduced versions of the 53xxx family of products has been extended by Pentek. These compact 3U OpenVPX software radio modules incorporate Xilinx Virtex-6 and Virtex-7 FPGAs for on-board signal processing. The 52xxx boards represent a complete family of ruggedized and commercial grade boards for high-performance military and avionics applications utilizing the industry’s most advanced FPGA technology.

Pentek has released the SystemFlow Simulator for its Talon analogue and digital recording systems. It includes a virtual recorder server application that simulates disk and I/O transactions for a complete and realistic recording environment. Using either the standard SystemFlow graphical user interface (GUI) or the SystemFlow application programming interface (API), the virtual server provides live, interactive operation for training or developme...

Pentek today announced the Model 7194 high speed clock generator in a PMC/XMC form factor. The Model 7194 provides fixed frequency sample clocks to up to four Pentek analog-to-digital Cobalt and Onyx modules in multi-board systems.

Pentek today announced the launch of its Model 8266 PC development system, pre-configured to speed application development for the expansive family of Pentek Cobalt Virtex-6 and Onyx Virtex-7 FPGA PCI Express software radio and data acquisition I/O boards.

Pentek today launched the 56xxx family of Advanced Mezzanine Card (AMC) products giving customers instant access to the extensive line of signal processing products in the Pentek catalog. Pentek is leveraging their modular product architectures to bring a large array of options to market in a very short time. The Pentek 56xxx products fill a major I/O product gap in the AMC ecosystem by offering 15 different modules.

Pentek unveil rackmount additions to its Talon RF/IF signal recording and playback systems. The Model RTS 2707 rackmount system, and Model RTR 2747 rugged rackmount system, offer recording and playback of RF/IF signals up to 700 MHz with signal bandwidths up to 200 MHz. The systems feature 500 MHz 12-bit A/Ds or 400 MHz 14-bit A/Ds and an 800 MHz 16-bit D/A.

Pentek has introduced an enhancement to its fastest-ever data acquisition XMC module for the popular Cobalt family. The Model 71641, capable of digitizing one 12-bit channel at 3.6 GHz, or two channels at 1.8 GHz, comes preconfigured with a programmable one- or two-channel digital downconverter loaded into the onboard Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA. The new module is ideal for wideband radar and software defined radio applications.

Pentek today announced a new line of multiband, modular RF slot receivers, the Model 8111 series which accepts RF signals over the range of 800 MHz to 3 GHz, downconverting them to a 225 MHz IF signal suitable for A/D conversion by any of several Pentek signal acquisition modules.