Lyrtech SignalMaster Quad Virtex - 4

The SignalMaster Quad Virtex-4 is designed around two clusters of one Virtex-4 LX FPGA and two TMS320C6416 DSP. Each cluster is capable of delivering up to 16,000 MIPS/MMACS of DSP processing power and 48 GMACS of FPGA-based DSP processing power.

Features and benefits

• Multipurpose board 
• Integrated to System Generator for DSP and Real-Time Workshop 
• Best fixed-point performance on the market 
• Stellar processing power
• Two Xilinx Virtex-4 LX FPGA that offer unsurpassed capabilities and high-performance logic
• Four Texas Instruments TMS320C6416 DSP for unparalleled processing power 128-MB SDRAM per DSP and 128-MB DDR SDRAM per FPGA allow heavier loads on the DSP and FPGA (such as when buffering video data) 
• Two LYRIO+ interfaces that allow connecting a broad range of I/O expansion modules to the SignalMaster Quad Virtex-4, including:
• Two inter-FPGA RapidCHANNEL connections for 8-Gbps, full-duplex communications between the FPGA 
• High-speed multichannel ADC/DAC modules, such as the ADACMaster III, VHS-ADC Virtex-4, and VHS-DAC Virtex-4.
• The DRC Virtex-4, a RapidCHANNEL/FPDP expansion module with one TX and one RX  -  RapidCHANNEL ports capable of 1 GBps (8 bits) and two configurable RX/TX FPDP-I, 400-MBps ports.
• The Audio/Video I/O module (AVA) with a 16-bit NTSC/PAL video encoder/decoder and a 16-bit, 48-kHz stereo audio I/O.
• An array of tools that allow designing complex algorithms for the SignalMaster Quad Virtex-4 as block models with the popular MATLAB and Simulink programs. 
• The SignalMaster Quad Virtex-4 is also compatible with some of the most powerful integrated development environments on the market Ñ Code Composer Studio and ISE Foundation.

Applications

• Real-time digital signal processing 
• Telecommunications and telephony 
• Wireless communications 
• Base station prototyping 
• Video processing