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HUNTSVILLE, Ala., — January 29, 2019 Abaco today announced the FMC172 Wideband Low Latency FMC Module. Designed for customers developing advanced embedded computing applications in electronic warfare, digital radar, wide band receivers and wireless communications SDR among others, it brings industry leading ADC and DAC functionality on a single card.
The FMC172 is based on the latest high performance
When paired with Abaco’s state-of-the-art FPGA carrier cards such as the VP889 or VP869, the FMC172 gives customers the platform to solve some of the most difficult challenges when designing modern DSP systems.
“The FMC172 provides customers with yet another option to expand bandwidth for analog receivers and transmitters,” said Peter Thompson, Vice President, Product Management at Abaco Systems. “Our previous generation FMC170 supported one channel at 5GSPS in both input and output; the FMC172 extends this to 6.4 GSPS at 10-bits, or two ADC channels at 3.2 GSPS. Many customers have monolithic FPGA with ADC cards in use, and it is challenging to update such a design to the latest ADC and DAC technology as moving forward would often require a complete board/system redesign.”
“The FMC172 is a prime example of how the evolving FMC standard allows customers who invest in this powerful mezzanine-based architecture can continue to evolve their analog I/O FPGA based systems with minimal changes to their existing DSP and FPGA architecture,” Thompson continued. “As such, it is very much aligned with our philosophy of providing our customers with a straightforward migration path that enables them to easily leverage the higher performance that new technologies bring.”
The FMC172 allows flexible control of clock source, sampling frequency, and calibration through I2C communication. The ADC has individual calibration circuits for fine-tuning of gain, offset, and phase. The card is equipped with power supply and temperature monitoring and offers several power-down modes to switch off unused functions or protect the card from overheating.
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About Abaco Systems
With more than 30 years’ experience, Abaco Systems is a global leader in open architecture computing and electronic systems for aerospace, defense and industrial applications. We create innovative, modular solutions based on open standards that are characterized by outstanding price/performance, ultimate rugged reliability and minimal SWaP. Our goal is to be a significant contributor to our customers’ success, partnering with them to reduce cost, time-to-deployment and risk and supporting them over the long term. With an active presence in hundreds of national asset platforms on land, sea and in the air, Abaco Systems is trusted where it matters most. www.abaco.com
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Abaco Systems
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