Annapolis, MD (December 21, 2020) – Annapolis Micro Systems, a leading FPGA board and systems supplier, has developed the first SOSA™-aligned 100Gb Ethernet FPGA board that combines the processing and A/D & D/A converting power of two Gen 3 Xilinx UltraScale+™ RFSoC FPGAs, with the ability to incorporate 18+GHz digitization.
The WILDSTAR™ 3XR0 3U OpenVPX FPGA Processor incorporates an innovative full-length coax-connected Analog Interface Mezzanine Site. This site can be populated with a direct RF digitization mezzanine, or a 3rd party analog superheterodyne tuner to allow for digitization of 18+GHz signals.
An integrated tuner delivers much lower SWaP-C than a separate standalone tuner, while maintaining the ability to upgrade the tuner and digitizer/processor separately.
“We don’t know of anyone else who is combining this much tuning, digitizing, and processing capability in a single 1” VITA 48.1 slot,” said Noah Donaldson, Annapolis Micro Systems Chief Technology Officer.
In addition to two Gen 3 RFSoC FPGAs (XCZU43DR & some other P/Ns on request), an on-board Xilinx MPSoC (XCZU5EV) provides high performing yet low power self-hosting capability thanks to the power-efficient ARM cores.
The rugged 3XR0 supports wide temperature ranges via air, conduction (photo above), or air-flow-through cooling. Min/max operating temperatures are -55˚C/85˚C; min/max storage temperatures are
-65˚C/105˚C.
For maximum flexibility, the 3XR0 supports SOSA and/or VITA 65 backplane slot profiles architectures. It also offers optional VITA 67 backplane RF connectivity.
Annapolis maintains a full WILD100™ EcoSystem of 100GbE products that are SOSA-aligned and proven in the field.
The following 3U OpenVPX products are optimized to operate in any 3U VPX WILD100 System, or are readily integrated into a 3rd party SOSA-aligned 3U VPX system.
- 3U Baseboard: WILDSTAR 3XBP & 3XR0 & 3XB9 Baseboards
- 3U Storage: WILDSTAR 3SN0 Storage
- 3U Switch: WILDSTAR 3E10 Switch
- 3U Chassis: WILD100 7-Slot & 13-Slot Chassis
- 3U Backplane: WILD100 6-Slot & 13-Slot Backplanes
The following 6U OpenVPX products are optimized to operate in any 6U VPX WILD100 System, or are readily integrated into a 3rd party SOSA-aligned 6U VPX system.
- 6U Baseboard: WILDSTAR 6XB2 & 6XBU Baseboards
- 6U Storage: WILDSTAR 6SN0 Storage
- 6U Switch: WILDSTAR 6E10 Switch
- 6U Chassis: WILD100 16-Slot Chassis
Annapolis’ powerful BSP options include 40/100GbE IP and both VxWorks 7 and Linux support.
Annapolis high-performance products are designed for advanced HPC, ISR, and multi-function EW applications, including phased array radar, cybersecurity network processing, DRFM, beamforming, sensor processing, wireless communication, and radar signal processing.
Link to press release: https://www.annapmicro.com/sosa-aligned-wildstar-3xr0-board-integrates-two-gen-3-rfsocs-and-enables-18ghz-digitization/
