June 11, 2003
Quixote Board to include PMC site and PICMG2.17 StarFabric interface, in response to customer demand
Quixote Board to include PMC site and PICMG2.17 StarFabric interface, in response to customer demand
In response to customer desires and to facilitate rapid, scaleable system integration in advanced systems, Quixote's architecture has been revised to include one IEEE-1386 PMC site and two 2.5Gbps PICMG2.17 StarFabric ports. The PMC site (PCI Mezzanine Card) allows fast integration of many types of analog I/O or high-speed digital interfaces, giving end-users a wealth of choices in off-the-shelf mezzanine cards or the means to easily integrate custom I/O on Quixote's local PCI bus. In addition, the PMC site Jn4 connector is connected straight to the Virtex-II digital I/O, allowing 64-bit of high-speed digital interface right into the FPGA. The board will also have full compliance with the new StarFabric switched interconnect backplane standard, which provides extremely flexible board-to-board and chassis-to-chassis high-speed serial communication with four 622Mbps in each direction, and is 100% backward compatibility with PCI, H.110 and Utopia. The PCI-to-StarFabric Bridge on Quixote translates PCI traffic into StarFabric protocol, essentially extending Quixote's PCI bus to other cards or chassis: each PCI device on the fabric can easily communicate with one another, using existing BIOS, drivers and software. With StarFabric, Quixote is ready to meet the demands of next-generation communication systems.
Samsung Electronics selects Innovative Integration hardware for OFDM wireless development
Korean electronics giant Samsung has chosen the Quixote platform for advanced development of 4th generation mobile system. The scope of the project includes implementation of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) in a complete physical layer validation that includes analog interfaces and digital control of the RF stage. Project tasks are split among several Samsung R&D centers. "Innovative Integration's card has all the elements required to deploy and test our new technologies. The compact design of the Quixote card will give us the hardware performance required and should greatly accelerate the integration of the different sub-tasks of external hardware interfaces, FPGA-code, DSP and host software" says Michael Park, project manager in charge of terrestrial OFDM technology implementation. Quixote's highly integrated architecture provides 105MHz analog I/O, one 600MHz C6416 DSP, one 6M gate Virtex-II FPGA and high-speed digital interfaces on one single 64/66 compactPCI board.
Oruga masters high-channel count applications with flexibility
With an unprecedented channel density on a single PCI card, Oruga provides 16-bit resolution on 64 channels at up to 39kSPS each! From Windows based data acquisition application to embedded co-processing on the C6713 DSP, Oruga offers trigger flexibility and very complete system-level peripherals for integration in OEM systems for vibration, acoustics, audio, SONAR, beam-forming/direction finding, bio-medical instrumentation.
Real Time Solution Of The Month - Midé Technology Corporation provides MIMO Control System Rapid Prototyping with SBC32 and SBC6711/Servo16 boards
The Midé DSPBox® is a control system rapid prototyping tool for Multiple Input, Multiple Output (MIMO) systems. The tool uses the SBC32 -and soon the SBC6711 board with Servo16 module- for data acquisition and real-time control tasks, while user interface and control design/analysis tasks are performed on a host PC running MathWorks' MATLAB® technical computing software. The system allows for the seamless acquisition of plant response data, in open and closed loop, from within the MATLAB® environment. In conjunction with Midé's software tools, DSPBox® allows control system development for complex systems such as structural and acoustic systems in an efficient and user-friendly environment. Once a satisfactory control algorithm has been created, typically within a few hours, the host PC can be removed and DSPBox® will continue to autonomously operate the controller.
