X6-400M

The X6-400M XMC card features two 14-bit 400MSPS or 12-bit 500 MSPS A/Ds, either AC or DC-coupled, plus two 500MSPS update rate DACs. The DAC can be used a single 1 GHz output channel. Analog IO is either AC or DC coupled. Receiver IF frequencies of up to 250 MHz are supported. The sample clock is from either a low-jitter PLL or external input. Multiple cards can be
synchronized for sampling.

A Xilinx Virtex6 LX240T (LX315T and SX475T options) with 4 banks of 1 GB DRAM provides a very high performance DSP core with over 2000 MACs (SX315T). The close integration of the analog IO, memory and host interface with the FPGA enables real-time signal processing at extremely high rates.

The X6-400M power consumption is 19W for typical operation. The module may be conduction cooled using VITA20 standard and a heat spreading plate. Ruggedization levels for wide-temperature operation from -40 to 85C operation and 0.1 g2 /Hz vibration. Conformal coating is available.

The FPGA logic can be fully customized using VHDL and MATLAB using the Frame Work Logic tool set. The MATLAB BSP supports real-time hardwarein-the-loop development using the graphical block diagram Simulink environment with Xilinx System Generator. IP cores for many wireless and DSP functions such as DDC, PSK/FSK demod, OFDM receiver, correlators and large FFT are available.

Software tools for host development include C libraries and drivers for Windows, Linux and VxWorks. Application examples demonstrating the module features are provided.