“Xilinx played a leading role in the creation of the VITA-57 standard and has adopted it in the development boards shipping in our Virtex-6 and Spartan-6 FPGA development kits,” commented Raj Seelam, senior manager, Xilinx Platform Solutions.  “We believe the FMC standard makes it much easier for customers to create prototyping or production systems leveraging the FPGA’s inherent flexibility and expandability. It’s great to see that our Alliance Program member, 4DSP, has enthusiastically adopted the FMC standard to make these cards part of their product line. Their design expertise for high performance DSP systems is of great value to users or Xilinx FPGAs,” added Raj.

The 4DSP FMC Series cards provide a large range of bit-width and sample rates. Unique features include a user selectable option to have data sampled by an internal clock source (optionally locked to an external reference) or use an externally supplied sample clock. A trigger input for customized sampling control is also available. I/O connections are on the front panel as per VITA 57.1. Cascading multiple FMC boards for synchronised high channel count is possible.

Equipped with power supply and temperature monitoring the 4DSP Series FMC cards have several power-down modes to switch off un-used functions to reduce system level power and heat. These features are well suited for software defined radio (SDR) and similar applications where battery or other low-power sources are required. 

The 4DSP Series of FMC cards are suitable for man-pack, ground mobile vehicles, UAVs and other airborne applications where limited power sources effect mission range and on-station mission time.  The boards are also available with Mil-I-46058c compliant conformal coating for hostile environmental applications.

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