April 4, 2003
Quixote Beta Release Shipping!
Get A Complete SDR Platform On A Single 64-bit cPCI Card
Combining the analog front-end of 105MHz 14-bit dual analog channels, a 600MHz C6416 DSP and an 8-million gate Virtex-II FPGA, Quixote is the best of all worlds with an unprecedented level of integration. A complete hardware solution for the most demanding applications, Quixote is the perfect platform for Software Defined Radio, Signal Intelligence, Advanced RADAR, Electronic Warfare, High-Speed Physics.
When integration, performance and flexibility are essential for your advanced signal acquisition/playback and processing, Quixote is a powerful solution. The analog front end offers the same unprecedented built-in timebase and triggering flexibility found in other Matador Series cards. Quixote's Virtex-II FPGA has been integrated with Xilinx's DDC core to provide a customizable turn-key digital receiver. Should you want to integrate your own IP, cutting edge algorithms or develop custom digital interfaces, the 8 Million-gate FPGA and the Phantom I/O site offer endless possibilities. And for intelligent, complex signal processing and high-level system interfacing, exploit the resources of TI's high-end TMS320C6416 DSP.
Quixote is much more than a bare-bones hardware platform. We provide a complete development suite that helps you jump start your development: DSP/BIOS peripheral device drivers that preserve DSP resources and simplify coding multiple tasks, utilities that simplify booting/download and terminal emulation, and numerous high-performance examples with source code. On the firmware side, we provide a solid logic framework with VHDL source and test benches of all interfaces, providing engineers with an excellent foundation to rapidly build their own applications upon.
Armada - Practical Host Side SW Libraries For Data Manipulation
Included Free With DSP Software Packages
Each Innovative Integration DSP board ships with Armada, best-in-class software tools which include practical, application-oriented host libraries that can greatly increase your productivity. Face it, the majority of DSP + analog applications must handle large amounts of data. In many cases, the developer needs to view, manipulate, log or further process this data on the PC. Armada software components help you integrate this aspect of the application with great productivity under MS VisualC++ or Borland C++ Builder:
- Straight-forward methods to receive/send data buffers to/from the DSP card
- Event-driven, on-the-fly, graphs for data streaming applications
- Data stripping, merging, and re-sampling
- Simple file I/O to Windows file or dedicated SCSI RAID array
- Virtual Instrumentation
- Integrated NSP Intel libraries for signal processing (FIR, IIR, FFT, etc)
- Signal generation components
- Static data viewing/analysis in time and frequency domain
The best part is that Armada is provided free of charge with board purchase, delivered in the form of VCL and MFC classes, allowing you to build your system in a C++ open environment, which guarantees the highest performance and unlimited flexibility.
