The ICS-8560 is a single height, rugged, hybrid PMC/XMC VITA 42 module intended for Software Defined Radio (SDR) applications.

It has two 16-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) chips; each chip has one DAC channel for a total of two DAC outputs running at frequencies up to 400 MHz. A user programmable Xilinx Virtex-4 FX FPGA intended for DSP intensive applications is on board and provides eight lanes of VITA 42 XMC serial fabric at 3.125 GHz on the XMC Primary Connector Pn5, as well as a user defined 64 bit PMC Pn4 interface.