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A medical imaging front end has to digitize many channels and keep them aligned in time. Then it has to move the samples on for reconstruction, inside tight limits on power, board area and cabling. The PCIe104-RFSOC puts an AMD Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC on a PCIe/104...

Ultrasound, PET and MRI produce very different signals. Can one four-channel acquisition module serve all three? Mostly yes. The ADCs are not the reason. The clock and the serial fabric are. In 60 seconds The FMC-ADC500CD has four 16-bit, 1 GSPS ADC channels, four...

Introduction Modern electronic systems increasingly depend on high-speed data acquisition, signal processing, instrumentation, and real-time control. These applications often require several specialized hardware modules to work together, exchange large amounts of...

If you’ve built a transmit-and-receive system around an FPGA carrier, you know the squeeze. There are only so many FMC sites and gigabit transceivers, and the DAC and ADC end up competing for both. SundanceDSP’s answer is to stack the ADC module on top of...

One Platform for Development, Integration, and Field Deployment Many FPGA applications are developed on a PC, where the host provides application control, data storage, and a graphical interface. However, the final system may need to operate independently in an...

For FPGA engineers, moving a signal from the fabric to a peripheral board consumes more engineering hours than the RTL behind it. Meanwhile, the mechanical fit, voltage levels, pin-count math, and adapter part numbers all multiply before the first line of test code...

Most host systems (industrial PCs, embedded controllers, single-board computers) run out of I/O long before they run out of compute. A handful of GPIO pins, a slow parallel bus, no deterministic path for fast signals. The Sundance DSP Solar Express 50 (SE50), a...

The challenge with any sensor node deployed in the field is simple: get information from a remote location without drawing attention to the node itself. Transmit less, transmit shorter, and run cooler. Those three constraints shape the hardware you pick. The...

Camera Link has been the default for fast, high-resolution imaging for a long time. Defense, scientific, and high-end industrial imaging all have a big installed base of it. Those cameras are still making pictures; they’re still pulling their weight, and in most...

Two standards, one mezzanine ecosystem The FPGA Mezzanine Card family gives hardware engineers a way to separate the FPGA carrier from the I/O front end. Buy one carrier, swap the mezzanine, and the same processing platform becomes a data acquisition system, an RF...