VXS board with fast I/O and FPGA processing

TEK Microsystems Inc. in Chelmsford, Mass., is offering the Quixilica Callisto VXS-1 board that combines field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) with a digital I/O architecture that moves data as quickly as 230 gigabits per second-20 gigabits through the backplane and 3 gigabits through the front panel, company officials say. TEK Micro is releasing the product in partnership with QinetiQ of Malvern, England. VXS describes the VITA-41 high-speed data interconnect. Callisto has as many as five Xilinx Virtex-II Pro Xc2VP50 FPGAs, and is for management, processing, and distribution of large volumes of data from advanced sensors such as radar, mobile communications, and electronic warfare. Callisto can concentrate data streams from as many as 16 VXS payload cards and fan data out to several VXS processor cards in applications that call for a work farm of processing resources. For more information contact TEK Micro online at www.tekmicro.com.