GE daq8580 Brochure
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1. ADC DAC FPGA w 5 3 3 E lal El lal 5 oa a pr wn Z E BE ali lel 2 2 5 3 5 lt 3 5 ov a 2 c U CO O co Lu gt PMC Y 4 Virtex II 3Mg 2 XMC v 2 Virtex 4 Fx60 VPX 2 Virtex 6 SX475T 1 5GB XMC 2 Virtex 6 LX240T 1GB XMC PMC Virtex 6 LX130T 1GB PMC Virtex 5 SX95T 2 ware Defined Radio SDR data acquisition modules all include Xilinx Field Program mable Gate Arrays FPGAs for user factory programming of DSP algorithms making them powerful processing elements rather than just data producers or consumers Radar Electronic Counter Measures Solution SPR870A 3U VPX Wideband Digital Transceiver gt Substantial SWaP savings gt Maximize troop amp asset safety with high end performance gt Smart design amp will save customers months of internal hardware engineering gt Increase freedom from analog hardware maintenance gt Obvious choice for technology refresh Our SDR products are ideal for military communications tactical radio signal intel ligence radar electronic counter measures satellite ground stations plus transceivers and public safety equipment ADC DAC XMC transceiver module designed for the most demanding signal intelligence applications ICS 1572A Digital Transceiver gt 2 Transformer coupled Analog Inputs 16 bits Fs lt 250MHZ per channel2. At GE sensor processing is just the beginning The ability to capture still or moving images radio transmissions and radar sonar signals and to turn them into actionable information is growing rapidly in importance for military organizations around the world The requirement is not only to capture increasing numbers and types of these analog phenomena but to transmit them more rapidly to process them more quickly and to deliver intelligence more swiftly than ever before 02 SENSOR PROCESSING What s needed is significant expertise and experience in analog to digital A D digital to analog and D A conversion GE Intelligent Platforms has that expertise and experience and is an acknowledged leader in the field of sensor processing Few if any companies can match the breadth and depth of GE s capabilities with what may be the industry s widest and most flexible range of analog input and output boards for video compression software defined radio SDR signals intelligence SIGINT situational awareness SA electronic warfare EW and radar sonar GE s products can be used to capture or transmit analog signals from acoustic to radio frequencies process high definition video for storage or transmission over a low bandwidth network transmit high bandwidth data over large distances via optical links or even process existing digital data via highly capable and power efficient FPGA devices Competitive advantag
3. gt 2 Transformer coupled Analog Outputs 16 bits Fs lt 500MHZ per channel gt Xilinx Virtex 6 LX240T User Programmable FPGA standard other devices available as an option gt PCle x8 Master Target Burst Mode DMA capable Video Product Matrix Video Capture Compression Streaming and Archiving Solution ICS 8580 2 Ch High Definition or 4 Ch Standard Definition H 264 Video Encoder Decoder XMC Module gt High Performance H 264 encode ital viden FPGA Analog Digital video input Output Paa w 5 5 5 S Peele a ql F 3 eE Si 5 E J5 E 3 S 2 2 2 5 o E Sa a CRS 6 VGA Cameralink 4 VGA SVGA Composite H 264 Altera SVGA Composite XGA SXGA Component AVC Arria II GX XGA Component UXGA Svideo HD MPEG 4 EP2AGX190 SXGA Svideo HD 525i p SD SDI DVI part 10 Texas UXGA SD SDI DVI 625i p RGB 10 100 Instruments 525i p RGB PCle 720p Ethernet IPv4 TMSDM6467 625i p Audio 1080i p amp IPv6 Audio DSP 720p RS 232 1080i p RS 422 xMC v 4 VGA Cameralink 4 VGA SVGA Composite H 264 Altera SVGA Composite XGA SXGA Component AVC Arria Il GX XGA Component UXGA Svideo HD MPEG 4 EP2AGX190 SXGA Svideo HD 525i p SD SDI DVI part 10 Texas UXGA SD SDI DVI 625i p RGB 10 100 Instruments 525i p RGB PCle 720p Ethernet IPv4 TMSDM6467 625i p Audio 1080i p amp IPv6
4. PCle DSP 720p Audio 1080i p decode with KLV metadata gt Dual HD channel encoding up to 1080p 1600x1200 gt Ultra low latency gt Ruggedized enclosure We offer state of the art video processing solutions for embedded video applica tions in military aerospace and unmanned vehicle markets Our video solutions Acoustic provide data capture processing storage compression decompression and display capabilities for a wide range of applica tions Using high performance FPGA and DSP technology our solutions deliver the performance and ease of use required in these demanding environments Autonomous High Speed Acoustic Data Processing Solution w D E o a O ze gt S E m S 3 8 3 5 Ay Y 3 pa E w25 o 2 o S62 D 5 a Uu 20u O a ma Analog Input 625 kHz ch 192 Analog 24 bit 1U Rackmount Analog Output amp 240 SANE amp Digitial 1 0 Digital options 16MB Analog Output 2 5 MHz ch 16 16 bit PCI Express 16MB Analog Input 2 5 MHz ch 16 24 bit PCI Express gt We have been delivering state of the art military computing SONAR solutions for more than 30 years so it s not surprising that the industry s best prime contractors choose GE Intelligent Platforms products in many of their highest profile programs reach all the way from front end data acquisition to back end signal processing Our software toolset AXIS Advanced Multi
5. PMCs are inte by major global defense contractors into signals intelligence solutions to support ISR applications in tactical environments Unmanned vehicle telemetry systems As well as being rugged enough to withstand the rigors of combat operations GE s solutions are designed to minimize use of space weight and power making them ideal for deployment in harsh constrained environments O Spectrum monitoring Rugged GE IF receivers are used in spectrum monitoring application to detect and locate IEDs requiring the repeated scanning of a wide range of frequencies Video processing GE offers video compression boards that provide a range of scal ability latency and size weight and power SWaP specifications with the H 264 codec providing the most effective blend of high quality video while achieving better than 95 compression rates to deliver low bandwidth low latency high quality video from high definition sources Signals intelligence FPGA processors are at the heart of many of GE s sensor processing solutions providing the computational performance and flexibility to address a broad range of demanding DSP applications in ground airborne and naval applications including signals intelligence Radar sonar GE s products include several powerful features which are key to acoustic applications including simultaneous sampling across a large number of channels including channels that span multip
6. gt processor Integrated Software enables rapid efficient development debugging and deployment of sophisticated high gt performance signal processing applications gt In addition to our invaluable experience in SONAR our field proven hardware offerings It is this expertise hardware software that set GE Intelligent Platforms apart daqNet 1U Acoustic I O Server Fully integrated acoustic server in a compact 1U chassis Up to 192 channels of acoustic O or 240 channels of digital I O Dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces for data I O modules Precise sampling synchronization across multiple servers User configurable digital I O module with immediate external signal or time based trigger DEFENSE GE IP COM 07 GE Intelligent Platforms Contact Information Americas 1 800 433 2682 or 1 434 978 5100 Global regional phone numbers are listed by location on our web site at www ge ip com contact defense ge ip com 2012 GE Intelligent Platforms Inc All rights reserved Trademark of GE Intelligent Platforms Inc All other brands or names are property of their respective holders 08 12 GFA 1922
7. mented in an onboard FPGA paired with sixteen high speed DACs on a single short form factor PCI Express card and includes the ability to synchronize up to eight cards The ICS 1620 has been designed to work seamlessly with the ICS 1640 high speed analog to digital converter card which allows sonar system integrators to easily develop a fully synchronized transmit and receive application Combining the ICS 1620 with one of the SBCs multiprocessors and or chassis available from GE provides a powerful platform for sonar applications No less representative of GE s innovative sonar solutions is daqNet which is designed for today s network centric environment An autonomous high speed acoustic data processing solution daqNet provides data connections and control capabilities by means of a dual Gigabit Ethernet interface within a 1U form factor daqNet has been optimized to provide high performance high speed signal conversion capability for up to 192 channels of analog I O and 240 channels of digital I O The redundant dual Gigabit Ethernet is easily configurable utilizing SNMP and traditional network transport protocols An unlimited number of dagNet servers and channels can be synchronized in real time while GE s custom time stamping technology delivers data reliability through the elimination of lost packets Each daqNet supports master Slave configuration for redundancy in the event of a failure The user has the opti
8. GE s AXIS soft ware development environment to shorten development timescales GE is a pioneer in the use of GPGPU general purpose processing using graphics processing units technology to deliver outstanding throughput for demanding applications Beyond this GE offers the industry s most advanced image processing and graphics capabilities a broad family of secure switches and battlefield routers and the capability to design and deliver complete application ready rugged subsystems ip Comi roducts family sensor processing Meg AAH nA Ng ng ke Ars un gt wo See y a i E Sya Bret ic 4 2 AAA ur applications Electronic warfare electronic countermeasures Software Defined Radio is an enabling technology that is revolutionizing the RF world by placing the data converters as close to the antenna as possible GE s open architecture modules include large capacity FPGA devices for customer specified signal processing functions Multifunctional radar Today s sophisticated radar processing is reliant on new multi core processors that offer outstanding performance watt on serial switched fabrics that offer high bandwidth board to board data transfers and software tools to maximize developer produc tivity GE fulfils all the requirements O4 SENSOR PROCESSING ISR grated Intelligence surveillance reconnaissance GE s high speed A D analog to digital XMC s VPX PCI Express amp
9. chronously at frequencies up to 250 MHz and two 16 bit DACs at up to 500 MHz The ADC input pass band is 4 5 to 800 MHz 3dB to allow for under sampling applications A Xilinx Virtex 6 LX240T FPGA is provided for user defined signal processing func tions giving greater capacity than previous generations The Virtex 6 device also provides a PCI Express interface to the host system Other protocols such as Serial RapidlO can be provided on request The FPGA provides a powerful signal processing capability that can be loaded with standard functions such as wideband DDC FFT and time stamping or programmed by the user for any required function Acoustic and Sonar GE Intelligent Platforms was one of the first companies to offer commercial off the shelf COTS products for acoustic applications that include sonar vibration analysis and test and measurement combining the best in analog and digital technologies The ICS 1620 is a 16 channel 2 5 MHz 16 bit DAC short form factor PCI Express module designed for high end acoustic applications Ideally suited for sonar transmit and simulation applications the ICS 1620 offers a higher output signal bandwidth than can be achieved with boards using traditional delta sigma DACs The result is a product that enables the creation of high channel count and high frequency systems which previously required custom hardware The ICS 1620 offers a customized interpolator imple
10. dio GE Intelligent Platforms Software Defined Radio portfolio includes a variety of formats such as PMC XMC PCI Express and VPX with a range of sampling conversion frequencies resolutions channel counts and ruggedization levels All include high performance FPGA processors for both performance and flexibility 08 SENSOR PROCESSING Typical of GE s software defined radio solutions is the ICS 1572A ADC DAC Analog Digital Converter Digital Analog Converter transceiver XMC module Designed to act as a powerful link between the analog world of sensors and the digital world of computing it can be deployed in the most demanding radar signals intel ligence communications and test and measurement applications The board features 16 bit data acquisition at up to 250MHz and the latest Xilinx Virtex 6 FPGA processor to deliver unprecedented performance in a cost effective compact lightweight form factor Beyond this not only does the XMC form factor allow for more compact solutions it also allows for high throughput to the host memory which translates into the ability to send high bandwidth signals for downstream processing The high sampling rates allow for high instantaneous bandwidth to be captured while the use of high speed DDR3 memory allows for deep waveform storage and toler ates the interrupt latency associated with non real time operating systems The ICS 1572A provides two 16 bit ADCs sampling syn
11. e GE s sensor processing capabilities are equally applicable in medical imaging wireless communications and test and measurement applications in fact any application that needs to process sensor data For prime contractors and systems integrators looking to bring unique value and to focus on solution differentiation and competitive advantage while minimizing cost risk and time to market GE offers extensive commercial off the shelf COTS options that provide a powerful stable flex ble hardware platform that is backed not only by GE s renowned customer support but also by unique programs designed to minimize long term cost of ownership Many of GE s sensor processing products which are available for PCI Express VPX and in PMC and XMC form factors also benefit from GE s leadership in developing solutions for military aerospace applications and are available in any of five levels of ruggedization This together with GE s focus on minimizing SWaP size weight and power means that GE solutions can be deployed with absolute confidence in harsh constrained environ ments such as unmanned vehicles GE s product offering extends far beyond sensor processing it includes single board computers for VPX VME and CompactPCI in 3U and 6U form factors Powerful sophisti cated multiprocessors for High Performance Embedded Computing HPEC are designed for the most demanding signal processing tasks and are supported by
12. le cards plus reliability redundancy features for 24 7 365 operation The daqNet acoustic acquisition server provides high performance higher channel density and simpler integration compared to board level solutions O DEFENSE GE IP COM 05 sensor processing Video compression GE offers a compelling range of video processing solutions for embedded applications in the military and aerospace market including data capture processing storage compression decompression and display capabilities 06 SENSOR PROCESSING The focus is on providing the features that are key to achieving high compression ratios while maintaining visual accuracy Also the product must target applications that requires minimal SWaP such as unmanned vehicles By combining FPGA and DSP tech nologies GE offers extensive programmability and flexibility in order to meet the needs of a wide variety of platforms and solutions Complementing these solutions are prod ucts that deliver image fusion graphics processing and display and image stabili zation in electro optical systems together with intelligent vehicle displays video streaming solutions The rugged ICS 8580 video streaming XMC for example is highly appropriate for deployment on unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs such is its combination of high performance and small size and weight and low power consumption The module is tailored to the requirements of users who design vide
13. o streaming solutions offering a range of features needed to meet the many often conflicting demands of unmanned vehicle video streaming applications These demands include ultra efficient compression scalability input flexibility and versatile codec settings The ICS 8580 can capture video inputs and archive or stream them over Ethernet managing multiple streams and performing capture manipulation conversion compression storage decompression and video display It has been widely deployed in programs such as NASA s Global Hawk initiative Featuring H 264 video compres sion decompression codec technology which is widely regarded as being the optimum solution lit is considered to be up to 3x as efficient as other codec solutions allowing vital image detail to be retained while occupying the minimum possible bandwidth or storage At the heart of the ICS 8580 lies a combination of a versatile FPGA device coupled with powerful dual DSP signal processors providing unparalleled compute power for video applications The FPGA enables video switching format conversions scaling blending and other processing functions while the dual DSP processors enable multichannel video compression and decompression for over 100x reduction in bandwidth with minimal impact on video quality TO FIND OUT MORE http defense ge ip com products family sensor processing DEFENSE GE IP COM 07 sensor processing Software Defined Ra
14. on of providing the system with an external A D sampling clock sync and trigger for enabling A Ds and digital Os DEFENSE GE IP COM 07 products Software Defined Radio Software Defined Radio is an enabling tech nology that is revolutionizing the RF world by placing the data converters as close to the antenna as possible GE Intelligent Platforms is at the forefront of this advanced technology with a family of state of the art open architecture modules that include large capacity FPGA devices for customer specified signal processing functions available in PCle XMC PMC and VPX formats with sampling rates between 100 MHz and 3 GHz and resolutions from 16 bits to 10 bits Both board level and system level products are offered in order to reduce time to market For multi mission and cognitive radio applications our Software Defined Radio modules deliver processing power plus receive and or transmit functions in one VPX or PCle bus slot The Sensor Processing groups line of high performance Soft High Speed Data Transfer Module SPR5078 4 channel Serial FPDP PMC XMC Module gt Serial FPDP module offers total band width of up to 1 4 Gigabytes second gt 30 higher speed than the industry standard gt Available either as a PMC module for upgrade legacy systems or as an XMC for modern ground up designs gt Guaranteed performance across all ruggedization levels gt Saves on SWaP 10 SENSOR PROCESSING
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