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Fujitsu Introduces Digital-to-Analogue Converter Development Kit Adaptor to Speed System Prototyping

4th November 2009

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Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe today announced the launch of a new digital-to-analogue converter (DAC) development kit adaptor. The DKXC5VADAPT-1 demonstrates how simple it is to implement a high-performance interface between an FPGA and the Fujitsu DK86064-2 and DK86065-2 high-performance DAC development kits. The adaptor is designed to interface directly to the HiTech Global V5-PCIE2 FPGA prototype board to combine the power of the Xilinx Virtex™-5 FPGA with Fujitsu’s high-speed DAC.

The DKXC5VADAPT-1 provides a physical link between the data headers on the Fujitsu DK86064/65-2 development kits and the HiTech Global V5-PCIE2 FPGA prototype board. The underside of the adaptor features six Samtec sockets that plug directly into the headers on the two boards. It connects 28 matched LVDS data pairs, the DAC Loop Clock(1) pairs and two divided clock signals between the two boards. All clock signals are routed to dedicated global clock inputs on the FPGA. The complete system forms a compact solution for testing and developing an FPGA-DAC interface.

In addition to providing a high-speed interface to the Fujitsu DAC, the Hi-Tech Global V5-PCIE2 development platform features tri-mode Ethernet (10/100/1000), a 4-lane PCI Express end-point connector (upstream), a DDR2 SO-DIMM socket (up to 4GB), a 512MB DDR3 component, 128MB Platform Flash XL for configuration as well as user Flash memory and on-board clocking.

Fujitsu Microelectronics development platforms are designed to deliver value to customers’ prototyping phase. The DKXC5VADAPT-1, combined with the appropriate Fujitsu DAC development kit, forms a platform that covers of all aspects of the FPGA/DAC interface design enabling customers to focus on prototyping their system.

With the platform immediately operational based on supplied example firmware customers will be able to save weeks of valuable resource effort, speeding time to market and greatly reducing risk. Significant cost savings can also be realised compared to developing and debugging a custom development platform.

Commenting on the launch of the new DAC development kit adaptor, Paul Maddox, Senior Marketing Manager, Mixed Signal Division, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe, said: “Stand-alone evaluation boards can have limited benefit to customers. This new adaptor raises evaluation to the next level and continues the philosophy that Fujitsu’s development kits accelerate the establishment of realistic system solutions platforms.”