Featured Articles
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Development Of The Next-Generation Openvpx-Based Embedded System Standard
10/8/2019
Something exciting is happening in the service representative community. Representatives from three different programs, one from each of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) services, have come together with a common objective to solve their respective acquisition problems with an agreed upon, open architecture standard. Here is the final part of a 3-part article covering the SOSA (Sensor Open System Architecture) Consortium’s efforts.
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The Art of Rugged Communication RFSoCs, Radar, and Reliability
9/6/2019
Delving into the world of RFSoCs, radar, ruggedization, and reliability, Rodger Hosking from Pentek joins us to discuss the details of the Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC as we take a closer look at the benefits and challenges of this unique single-chip adaptable radio platform.
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Strategies For Developing Xilinx’s Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC
3/19/2019
New RFSoC technologies add RF-class analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog data converters to Xilinx’s family of FPGAs. This white paper looks at current trends in data converters and signal processing to better understand the capabilities of RFSoC and how to best use the technology.
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Software Defined Radio Handbook
3/6/2019
Recently updated, this handbook shows how digital downconverters (DDCs), the fundamental building blocks of software radio, can replace legacy analog receiver designs while offering significant performance, density, and cost benefits.
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Beamforming And Radar
3/6/2019
OpenVPX presents a formal, well-organized system for defining all components in VPX systems. Numerous "profiles" for boards, slots and backplanes that detail specific configurations of channels, interconnections and fabrics are explained in this handbook.
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Defense
3/6/2019
When designing a real-time recorder capable of streaming sustained data, the system developer has to consider the limitations of the recorder's operating and file systems, disk drive technology and much more.
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Communications
3/6/2019
Switched serial fabric systems connect devices together to support multiple simultaneous data transfers. The raw speed of serial fabrics is governed by three factors: the serial bit clock frequency; the channel coding efficiency; and the number of lanes or parallel bit streams ganged together in the interface. This handbook helps system designers compare and contrast different types of serial fabrics to narrow down the best available links and protocols for their high-speed embedded system application.
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Science And Control
2/25/2019
Analog-to-Digital (A/D) converters accept an analog voltage at the input and produce a digital representation of that voltage at the output, called a “sample.” This handbook focuses on the use of A/D converters with sampling rates higher than 100 MHz, review sampling techniques and FPGA technology.
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Putting FPGAs To Work In Software Radio Systems
1/29/2019
This handbook introduces the basics of FPGA technology and its relationship to SDR (software-defined radio) systems. A review of Pentek’s GateFlow FPGA Design Resources is followed by a discussion of features and benefits of FPGA-based DDCs.
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Development Techniques For Small Form Factor RF Signal Recorders
1/29/2019
This paper describes the engineering considerations and design techniques used to develop a small form factor rugged recorder that can handle the extremely high data rates associated with very wide bandwidth RF signal recording, while focusing on military spec compliance, SWaP, and ease of use.