FPGAs are everywhere these days, doing nothing but getting faster and enabling new levels of signal processing and I/O flexibility. Designed for Digital Signal Processing (DSP), the versatile TIC-FEP-VPX3b front-end processing board from Elma Electronic is ideal for applications such as radar, sonar, electronic warfare, imaging, and communications. The 3U VPX TIC-FEP-VPX3b provides an FMC site coupled to a large-capacity Virtex-6 FPGA for extremely flexible I/O.
Built to the VPX specifications, the TIC-FEP-VPX3b includes four 4-lane fabric ports on the P1, connected by GTX transceivers to the main FPGA. The four fat pipe channels provide PCIe x4 and GbE interfaces as well as two x4 expansion ports.
The GTX transceivers can be grouped to form multi-lane Aurora pipes supporting inter-VPX card connection, allowing the FPGA processor boards to be very tightly coupled via point-to-point or mesh topology. The board fits scalable architectures, where more than one FPGA processor is required.
