Products: roach (reconfigurable open architecutre computing hardware)ROACH is a Virtex5-based upgrade to current CASPER hardware. It merges aspects from the iBOB and BEE2 platforms into a single board. The CX4/XAUI/10GbE interfaces of both are kept, while combining the Z-DOK daughter board interface of the IBOB with the high bandwidth/capacity DRAM memory and standalone usage model of the BEE2. ROACH is a single-FPGA board, dispensing with the on-board inter-FPGA links in favor of 10GbE interfaces for all cross-FPGA communications.
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ROACH board (above)
ROACH board shown in 1.3 U ATX-compatible enclosure for use on 19" rack mount (above).
Products: iADC (Analog to Digital Conversion Board)
iADC board (above) |
ROACH board with 2 iADC boards (above) |
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Products: iBoB (Interconnect Break-out Board)
The IBOB is an FPGA-based processing board for DSP. It features two Z-DOK connectors, to which a variety of I/O boards can be attached (including dual 1GSa/sec ADC, quad 250MSa/sec ADC and DAC). The IBOB has a Xilinx Virtex-II Pro 2VP50 FPGA, and is used in radio astronomy applications primarily for digitizing data, performing downconversion, filtering and FFT operations, and outputting this data over XAUI/10GbE, enabled by two CX4 connectors on the board. It can be used to provide a high-speed interface to BEE2 boards.
