TEKMICRO High Speed Digitisers: The QuiXilica-V6 VME/VXS signal processing board is another industry first for Tekmicro, providing the industry's first 6U solution using Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA technology. By combining this new board with our existing range of QuiXmodules, customers can rapidly create coherent high channel count signal acquisition and generation solutions using ADCs and DACs from 160 MSPS up to 5 GSPS, with twice the FPGA processing density than other solutions on the market.

There are four cards in the QuiXilica Virtex 6 range,

1). Aries-V6 Ten 16-bit ADCs at 250 MSPS with 500 MHz input
2). Pallene-V6 Eight 12-bit Channels at up to 550 MSPS
3). Proteus-V6 Two 10-bit Channels at up to 5 GSPS
4). Atlas-V6 Eight Channels: 12-bit ADC Input at 1 GSPS Each
5). Titan-V6 Eight Channels: Four 12-bit ADC Inputs at 1 GSPS
Each, Four 14-bit DAC Output at 1.2 GSPS Each

The QuiXilica-V6 VME/VXS baseboard provides a modular COTS product architecture with support for deployed environments. With the QuiXilica-V6 architecture, users may combine the widest range of off-the-shelf ADC and DAC options with the most advanced FPGA technology on the market today to solve critical problems in defence and intelligence applications such as radar, software defined radio, multi-INT fusion and persistent surveillance. Future products will continue to add more ADC and DAC options as well support for other form factors such as OpenVPX while maintaining firmware and software compatibility across the QuiXilica product range. QuiXilica-V6 Raises the Bar on FPGA Density The QuiXilica-V6 VME/VXS baseboard has three, highly connected, Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA sites. The two frontend FPGAs are attached directly to the QuiXmodule sites, providing a simple and direct high speed connection between the ADC and DAC devices and the FPGA. The third FPGA can be used to support additional processing, and also any required protocol support for either front panel or backplane interfaces.