ICS-1650/001 Abaco Systems PCI Express X4 High-Speed 4-Channel ADC with User-Programmable Virtex-5 FPGA

The Abaco Systems ICS-1650 PCI Express X4 High-Speed 4-Channel ADC with User-Programmable Virtex-5 FPGA is a high-speed data acquisition and DSP engine intended for PCI Express based desktop PCs and servers deployed in signal intelligence, radar, medical imaging, and aerospace applications.

The ICS-1650 provides data acquisition and DSP capabilities designed to match the bandwidth increases provided by PCI Express and the processing capabilities of multi-core CPUs. This card features four 250 MHz 12-bit analog input channels. Higher channel count systems can be assembled by synchronizing up to four cards together. These ADC inputs allow the host PC to be interfaced to a wide variety of communications, radar, and imaging equipment.

The four-lane PCI Express interface provides up to 1.25 GByte/s net payload data rate. This is sufficient to allow continuous data acquisition at sample rates exceeding 200 MHz on all four channels, but still provides mechanical compatibility with small form factor mother boards. This is important for users of micro ATX systems, which usually do not provide x8 or wider auxiliary PCIe slots.

In addition to class leading data acquisition capability, the ICS-1650 also provides a user-programmable Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA (SX95T) for signal processing. A second Virtex-5 is used for control, thus leaving the first almost entirely free for the implementation of application code.