VPX3-E320

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Designed for superior durability and reliability, the VPX3-E320 incorporates Curtiss-Wright’s industry-leading rugged hardware design and validation practices to meet the stringent requirements of the most demanding front-line environments. Paired with the industry-leading UHD-based software-defined radio workflow, this product is truly unique. Bringing the NI Ettus Research USRP E320 to the VPX form factor, the VPX3-E320 is a ruggedized, user-programmable software-defined radio, ideal for low-to-medium bandwidth RF applications and aligned to The Open Group Sensor Open Systems Architecture™ (SOSA) and U.S. Army’s C5ISR/EW Modular Open Suite of Standards (CMOSS) Technical Standards. This product is compatible with the USRP Hardware Driver (UHD) maintained by NI in a VPX SDR.

Just like the NI Ettus Research USRP E320, the VPX3-E320 features a flexible 2 x 2 MIMO RF Agile Transceiver with 12-bit ADC and DACs. The board supports tunable bandwidths from 200 kHz to 56 MHz over a frequency range from 70 MHz to 6 GHz.

Baseband signal processing uses an AMD Zynq 7045 System-on-Chip FPGA to deliver accelerated FPGA computations and software-based processing using its dual-core Arm® CPU. Device configuration can be accomplished with the NI USRP Hardware Driver (UHD), either through GNU Radio or with common programming languages such as Python or C++. Applications previously developed on the USRP E320 will port directly to the VPX3-E320.

Key features

  • Design based on the NI Ettus Research USRP E320
  • Alignment to the SOSA™ and CMOSS Technical Standards
  • Planned alignment with VICTORY & MORA
  • Support for development with USRP tool flows (UHD, RFNoC)
  • Support for C, C++, and Python
  • Support for industry standard SDR development tools, such as GNU Radio & REDHAWK
  • Optional FPGA programming with AMD Vivado
  • RF: 2x2 MIMO (2 Rx, 2 Tx)
  • Frequency range: 70 MHz to 6 GHz (<30MHz planned)
  • Bandwidth: up to 56 MHz
  • Synchronization: 100 MHz and 1 PPS backplane sources
  • FPGA: AMD Zynq 7045
  • Dual-core Arm Cortex A9
  • 1 Gb and 10 Gb Ethernet I/O
  • Conduction-cooled, rugged 3U VPX form factor

 

Applications

  • Deployed SIGINT
  • Tactical communications
  • Reconfigurable jamming
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