Pentek’s Virtex-6 FPGA Cobalt Quad-Channel Data Acquisition and Processing Board Excels with 200 MSPS at 16 bits

“The 71660 delivers critical performance levels previously unattainable and provides an excellent technology-insertion path for existing applications,” said Roger Hosking, vice president of Pentek. “Its four front-end data acquisition channels offer the industry’s highest resolution and the back-end PCI Express interface offers at least four times the throughput of previous PCI-X interfaces. Between them is a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA with over 2000 DSP slices to handle the toughest real-time signal processing tasks. We have also built in several popular data acquisition features inspired by customer applications in our earlier-generation boards.”

“Pentek is taking full advantage of the Virtex-6 family’s functionality in their Cobalt product line, achieving sustained data throughput at 80% of the built-in PCI Express interface’s theoretical peak data rate,” said Xilinx senior manager, Platform Solutions, Raj Seelam. “They are also able to leverage the Virtex family’s reduced power requirements to create boards that will support any Virtex-6 FPGA the customer requires.”