Signal processing platform is flexible & resource-rich

Incorporating a powerful Xilinx Kintex 7 FPGA, a Xilinx Zynq 7045 SoC with a dual-core ARM A9 processor and 3GB of on-board DDR3 memory on a PCIe 2.0 host card, it delivers outstanding performance and capability. The qu-IQ platform supports a high-pin count FMC site supported by LVDS and GTX data lanes supporting data transfer rates of up to 180Gb/s. The PCIe Gen2x8 interface enables high rate DMA data transfers up to 24Gb/s to and from the host PC. Additional off-board connectivity and control is via Gigabit Ethernet and USB 2.0.

The qu-IQ features 750k logic cells and nearly 2500 DSP48 slices, which provides an expansive resource for the development and proving of modern signal processing applications. The solution is supplied with an evaluation version of RFEL's award-winning ChannelCore Flex IP core that provides rapid wideband channelisation out of the box, with 128 channels with real-time programmable response frequency, bandwidth and channel response as well as a powerful fractional rate resampler on each channel.

The qu-IQ platform provides an off-the-shelf, development environment that customers can use to experiment with RFEL's wide range of award winning IP and rapidly create and test their own solutions. Areas of application include algorithm development and evaluation for COMINT, SIGINT, Electronic Warfare, Radar and Sonar, as well as high performance laboratory and industrial applications for Radio Astronomy and technical research.

Dr Alex Kuhrt, CEO, RFEL, commented: "We have drawn on all our years of expertise on creating state of the art, DSP solutions on FPGAs to design this open development platform for prototyping and algorithm development, which is also targeted at Hardware-In-Loop testing. This will enable customers to reduce their time to market and de-risk complex DSP development programmes for defence, security, military and industrial applications."