New 3U VPX Integrated Development System released by Spectrum Signal Processing

Posted by John McHale
BURNABY, British Columbia, 5 Feb. 2011. Spectrum Signal Processing introduced the SDR-7001, an integrated commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware platform for high performance signal processing that is 3U VPX (VITA 46) and OpenVPX (VITA 65) form factor compliant.
The standard configuration provides two A/D input channels, two D/A output channels, Virtex-5 based field programmable gate array (FPGA) processing, and an Intel Core 2 Duo or Core i7 general purpose processor. The system is configured and tested in an OpenVPX chassis with Spectrum's quicComm development kit which includes a Linux board support package and software design kit, board, and system-level examples, and FPGA application reference designs.
Product features include: dual 250 MSPS, 14-bit ADC, dual 300 MSPS, 14-bit DAC, and 2 Xilinx Virtex-5 FX130T User FPGAs -- each with 512 MB External SDRAM. It also has an on-board clock for 200 MSPS sampling rate.
For more information, visit www.spectrumsignal.com.