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

16th June 2010

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Pentek announced a new member of its Cobalt product family leveraging Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGAs for high-performance data acquisition and signal processing – the 71660 four-channel data acquisition module. The instrument targets radar and communications applications requiring next-generation performance and is a natural follow-on to Pentek’s popular Virtex-5 FPGA 7150 board family, improving signal quality and tripling DSP resources.

“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.”