Quad Serial FPDP Modules

October 1, 2012

Pentek (Upper Saddle River, NJ) offers two Quad Serial FPDP (Front Panel Data Port) modules with a Xilinx Virtex-6 FPGA: the Model 71611 XMC module and the Model 7811 native PCI Express card. These new Serial FPDP modules extend Pentek’s Virtex-6 Cobalt® product line by providing four channels of serial communication with up to 1 Gbyte per second of aggregate data transfer capability.

The Model 71611 can be installed on any XMC carrier, and the Model 7811 native PCI Express (PCIe) card can be installed on any motherboard with PCIe card slots. Both the 71611 and the 7811 support Gen2 PCIe and offer a range of Virtex-6 devices. The models are fully compatible with the VITA 17.1 Serial FPDP specification. They support 1.0625, 2.125, and 2.5 Gbaud link rates and options for multi-mode and single-mode optical interfaces. Programmable modes include flow control in both receive and transmit directions, CRC support, and copy/loop modes.