Some problems can be difficult to solve. Phase accurate synchronization of analog signals through multiple analog to digital converters at multi-GHz rates on a single card is one such problem. Synchronization between multi-boards or systems raises the bar even further. To do this over wide temperature ranges reliably takes the problem up yet another notch.
VPX3-530 from Curtiss-Wright - 3U VPX Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA ADC/DAC
The challenge was to achieve all of these with eight Curtiss-Wright’s VPX3-530 transceivers; each with four 2 Gsps data converters, a total of 32 analog input channels requiring cycle-accurate synchronization. The VPX3-530 has also dual analog outputs for a total of 16 analog output, all demanding synchronization.
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