Pentek enhances Navigator Design Suite
The enhancements include new IP, expanding Pentek’s existing IP library to over 140 cores for FPGA development on its Quartz Architecture platform. Navigator Design Suite includes the NavigatorFPGA Design Kit (FDK) for integrating custom IP into Pentek factory-shipped designs and the Navigator Board Support Package for creating host applications.
The new cores for the FDK include sRFSoC on-chip A/D and D/A converters. Data acquisition and waveform generator cores have been updated that includes support for VITA 49.2 VITA Radio Transport (VRT) packet formatting. A new optimized x16 decimation core extends the range of the built-in RFSoC decimation. Pentek’s Smart A/D Calibration feature adds hardware, FPGA IP and software to make Xilinx’s calibration circuitry more robust across diverse operational scenarios. The programmable signal synthesizer core now includes a programmable frequency sweep generator for generating radar chirp pulse waveforms. These new cores for Quartz support operation of all eight RFSoC A/D and D/A converters simultaneously.
The Navigator core library also now includes 100 gigabit Ethernet UDP engines, supporting bidirectional 12 GBytes/sec with on-board optical interfaces. The Quartz board’s optical interface supports up to two 100 gigabit Ethernet connections providing a total transfer rate of over 24 GBytes/sec.
The Navigator BSP adds new software resources for RFSoC ARM processors running Xilinx’s PetaLinux. In addition to drivers, software modules and example programs, the BSP now includes an API command processor application so that Quartz boards can be controlled by high-level commands received through the board’s PCIe or 1 GigE interfaces. Pentek provides a full library of API commands for all the most commonly used functions. Full source code for the API command processor application is provided.
The Navigator BSP also includes new example programs that allowed source code to be modified down to the lowest levels.
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