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FPGA VIM-2 Board

The Model 6250 is a new configurable logic FPGA VIM-2 (velocity interface mezzanine) module featuring dual FPGAs from the new high-density Xilinx Virtex-II family. The module also includes dual front panel data port (FPDP) interfaces for high-speed I/O connectivity through front panel connectors.

The Model 6250 supports a multitude of industry standard FPDP peripherals including ADCs and DACs, digital receivers, and memory boards as well as PowerPC and ýC6000 processor boards. The configurable logic FPGA VIM-2 is ideal for custom military and wireless applications including wideband demodulation, compression and decompression algorithms, software radio blocks, decryption, telemetry functions, decoders, encoders, and image processing functions.

Each FPGA is equipped with two 64K ý 16 SRAM, optionally expandable up to 256K ý 16. The FPGAs can be configured in two ways: the custom configuration code can either be stored in nonvolatile memory onboard, or uploaded during run time from the processor, allowing more flexibility in reconfiguring the FPGA on the fly.

The Model 6250 starts at $4,495.

Pentek, Inc.
(201) 818-5900
Fax: (201) 818-5904|
www.pentek.com

08-01

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